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Many archeologists that I have spoken have confirmed me this thought.

And archaeologists have told me that there is no evidence for leather segmentata amongst Roman armour. Do you also have helmets with the same shape as the ones on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius? If they were also made of leather then they would be much more comfortable to wear. The leather segmentata article itself seems to claim that engineering duties could not be carried out wearing metal segmentata, yet there are many here on this forum who have done it and provided evidence for the capabilties of such armour in those tasks. Therefore the claim that you test and experiment more than any other group does not really stand up, IMHO.

You can also often see the phrase "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." used here on RAT, by the way, but even here there is an overall conclusion so far that leather segmentatae would not offer any advantage over metal ones, and be less capable of body defence which is its primary purpose.