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How shiny can armour be? (Patreon)

Published:
2023-07-10 15:22:34
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Ever-so, it turns out.  

Picture credits: Rob Kirby.

I was a bodyguard to the Duke of Gloucester.

No charge for any of these pictures.

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Andrew Gifford

was a very nice weekend, must be very exhilarating to be stood in a wide-open field and have an electrical storm roll up the valley.

Andrew Maltby

I wonder, is there a tactical advantage to mirror like armor? With those curves on the shoulders and helmet, there must be at least one angle that would reflect midday sun into the eyes of an attacker and distract them.

Andrew Maltby

Another possibly advantage is that it might stay cooler during the midday sun, reflecting the heat (like an emergency blanket keeping warmth in) rather than absorbing it?

JRW

I got out an old textbook on heat absorption & loss. In tropical sunlight @ 27'C air, a wood surface gets to 85'C while shiny steel is 43'C. This is without heat loss from inside surface. Rusty steel has about same absorptivity & emissivity as wood - so polishing seems worthwhile. Perhaps we need an instrumented Lindybeige!!

Lindybeige
>>112662959

Must have some effect. Heat is certainly a problem, though I've not heard anyone with back armour report that they felt hotter.