Why weren't steel plates used earlier, for example in ww1 or ww2 ?

Why weren't steel plates used earlier, for example in ww1 or ww2 ?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Literally this, OP is a hoholshill tourist.

      https://militarymatters.online/military-history/the-development-of-helmets-and-body-armour-in-the-first-world-war-a-history-of-what-ifs/

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        are those hoholshills in the room with us right now?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Metallurgy just wasn't really there to make it practical on an individual level without weighing a frickton and being impractical. Just look at the Korean and Vietnam era flak vests, even they were bulky and couldn't take a bullet. Add into it resource scarcity that could go towards armaments and it's really a no-brainer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My dad had a chicken plate in Vietnam, but he was a door gunner. Said it weighed a lot, and they usually sat on it because most shots would come through the bottom of the helicopter. He saw one guy get knocked out of his seat when a bullet hit the plate he sitting on, but it stopped it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >He saw one guy get knocked out of his seat when a bullet hit the plate he sitting on, but it stopped it.
        did he break his ass, or was he okay?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He shit his ass for sure.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >A bullet came trough the seat right up in timos ass

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were, though they were thinner and primarily meant for shrapnel protection and limited bullet resistance. Also have you never heard of Ned Kelley? The thought of using metal plates to stop bullets is far from a new idea

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Was it just shitty bullets? WW1 and 2 weren't using some piddly 556. They were using real rifle bullets.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        As people have already said, the metallurgy is child's play compared to today, the bullet loads back then were not like they are today, as chambers couldn't handle the immense pressure

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          that's pretty strange as Gewehr 98 had both faster and heavier projectiles than today's rifles - how did they do that with lower chamber pressure?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the bullet loads back then were not like they are today, as chambers couldn't handle the immense pressure
          that's bullshit. there even were tungsten core bullets going nearly 2900 fps.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the metallurgy is child's play compared to today
          lmfaoooo
          You don't really know anything, do you? The German helmet steel was as much as 54 rockwell C, which is well beyond AR500.
          If anything the people designing steel armor back then knew a lot more about metallurgy than the total morons at companies like AR500 and Spartan Armor.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah ok bro

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            german helmets were also dogshit for protection and they knew it, they had plans drawn up for a helmet that might actually survive something bigger than a BB hitting it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          But we still use stopping M2 armor piercing rounds as the standard for lvl 4 plates?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yes, but you need to realize that without rare tungsten AP ammo, the next Caliber that can reliably pen lvl4 with steel AP ammo is 338 lapua magnum. There is no lvl5 because threats that can defeat lvl4 would be rare even if you fought the US.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the armor soviet sappers wore was capable of stopping 9mm out of an mp40

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the armor soviet sappers wore was capable of stopping 9mm out of an mp40
          So did the reserve parachute of paratroopers
          I read a story of one which landed almost on top of a german soldier with an mp40 and got magdumped from 3-5 meters
          He still got one in his leg and arm but the parachute stopped the rest and he managed to shoot him while he reloaded

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Folded up parachutes are good at stopping bullets in general, anon.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            A folded up parachute is basically a kevlar vest.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Plausible if it's silk or nylon. The trick was layering it. Get enough layers of even paper and you can stop a bullet.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wouldn't some fragmentation find his chin?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >1917
    >still no armor made of steel

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    moron

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There was steel armor in the fricking civil war.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As lame as steel armor is, modern steel body armor typically has a hardness between BN 450 and 550, which while cheap today was quite difficult to produce in the past.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >As lame as steel armor is, modern steel body armor typically has a hardness between BN 450 and 550, which while cheap today was quite difficult to produce in the past.
      So many people write shit like that but what did they actually change?
      I wanna know what's in the magic modern steel just in case I travel back in time someday

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I will not tell you

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Literally nothing. It's the same steel that's been used in tractors and armor for the past 100 years.
        AR500 is simply Abrasion Resistant 500 BHN. It's been in use since ~WW1 for mining and industrial use.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          But sure SOME metallurgy advances have been made, how'd humanity manage to do that?

          I will not tell you

          Frick you, I'll find out where you live and if I travel back in time your ancestors are getting genocided.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Process improvements have been made. The biggest innovation in the past 150 years has been testing methods.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Look, I don't think Krupp's gonna be very impressed when I tell him that while trying to convince Hitler and the boys that every tank needs to start out with a 75mm cannon.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >But sure SOME metallurgy advances have been made, how'd humanity manage to do that?
            There are new tool steels and high-speed shit like CPM Magnacut and a bunch of others, but "AR500" and "AR550" are literally 110-year-old tech.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >There are new tool steels
              Anything that would be of interest for a time traveler?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Maraging steels, Titor. They date to the 1960s-1970s, and they're fantastically useful in tools and aircraft parts. Too expensive for armor, though, and also ITAR-controlled because they can be used in nuclear centrifuges, so they're tough to get.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Maraging steels
                That's cool as frick anon, thank you.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not really, they use technology like Powdered metallurgy, and materials like vanadium, nitrogen, and other materials pretty much impossible to isolate with old tech. Plus the accuracy of modern heating and such, makes modern steels purely possible with modern tech.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        standardization, industrialization. replaceable parts are a 20th century invention, replaceable steel included.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >t.
          everything you just listed was 19th century

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            attempts were made, yeah. 20th century is when they succeeded.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              ... no they succeeded in the 19th century.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                nope

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                wallow in your ignorance then, dipshit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        New techniques and better understanding of metallurgy. As well as better tools to examine metals.
        High end kitchen knives for example, have the engineers behind them focus on the microscopic grain a specific steel blend creates when developing a new blade line. These days the focus is on reducing the size of the chromium granules that exist in stainless steel blends especially.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The brits and dominions issued them quite widely, but they are usually worn under the clothes so you don't see them much.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were , kindoff, but compared to the Ass Ramming 500 steel, they were shit. Aluminum was not common enough to replace it and various alloys probably werent invented

    Ww1 You have a silk fragmentation vest by the britbongs, Bashford and dean prototypes that never saw action, german panzergraben (lobster plate ), portable sniper shields, and various home bought silk, and/ or steel vests.

    Ww2 canucks had some steel plates just before the end of the war.
    >pic related
    And Burgers had their pilots use steel and nylon flak jackets to stop flak from flak cannons that fired areal flak shells

    I think the next item is the smith and wesson bodyshield , nylon (38 sp proof) and steel plates (30 carbine) but im not sure.

    /k/orean war: Then you get properly designed infantry flakjackets (m55 vest) that had aluminum plates sandwitched between doron,

    >This is when people started figuring out how to make infantry bodyarmor due to aluminum and nylon starting to become the wundermaterial of the time. It existed before but (if I had to guess) production was ramped up during ww2 due to incredible consumption and more people worked with them and started to see their potential so somebody thought making bodyarmor out of those might be a decent idea

    Vietnam m69, then later some aluminum oxide ceramic overvest similar to what you see on motherbase solders in MGSV GZ

    Then pasgat AESTHETIC commeth

    Interceptor vest

    Modern plate carriers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Before the interceptor delta SOP used these.
      Btw what are the closest things in today's market to picrel?

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you need to be 18 or older to post here

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >composite plate
    >becomes useless after taking 1 shot and has to be replaced
    >steel plate
    >can take many shots and still be worn
    so why aren't steel plates more common? Is it because of spawling?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      heavy, spalling, lesser resistance to AP projectiles

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Modern composite plates aren't useless after 1 shot moron. Many of the Nij standards literally require multi hit. Spalling is not the primary reason they aren't used. The main reason is a steel lvl4 plates weight would outweigh any benefit. Steel simply can't be made that hard. Atleast not any steel that could be produced at the scale required. Steel plates, weigh more, are inferior performance wise, and spall.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I believe the largest issue is it took till the 2000’s to realize an armor plate only needs to cover 8”x11” of chest to save the most lives and being lightweight enough for a soldier to deal with. It’s very difficult to convince generals with injury statistics and armor autists wanted to cover as much as possible. When the steel helmet was introduced, head injuries skyrocketed and generals had to be convinced that those head injuries would’ve been deaths without the helmets. Also the reason why we can reduce armor size to just the instakill regions is because we’ve honed logistics so much we can get someone wounded on the frontline to hospital grade care in an hour. That didn’t exist till the end of the 20th century so even if you dumped a bunch of level IV plates in WW1 it might not make a noticeable difference.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah who cares about spine protection FRICK that, let's just cover your lungs and heart bro.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Anyone dying of a shot from behind was a coward anyhow.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >steel plates

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Plates couldn't even stop 9mm back then

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is he okay?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that's gotta hurt

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >9mm
      That's obviously 45 ACP.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A 45 would not blow the lungs out of the body. It was a 9mm
        >you are fake news

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        45 can't penetrate shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that's a .22 it bounced back and forth like a boomerang. Happened to a buddy of mine

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why werent planes used in ww1 tho?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      More kino options were available.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They were initially used for spying on enemy troops before their combat potential became realized later into the war, similar to how prior methods of human flight like hot air balloons were utilized before. As such, planes weren't actually fitted with any armaments at first, it was just a pilot and maybe a copilot with a camera to take aerial photos of enemy lines. The first dogfights were between spy planes who'd spotted each other. The crew began carrying guns with them on missions to shoot at enemy spy planes, as well as for personal protection if they were shot down and survived the landing. I faintly recall hearing that some brought grenades and other explosives up with them to drop on enemy soldiers, but I don't remember where I heard that.
      So imagine the pilots with pistols and carbine rifles taking potshots at enemy planes who did the same to them. Maybe they managed to shoot the other pilot and down the plane, maybe they shot out the engine, maybe they both just missed every shot and returned to base bragging about how they totally domed that enemy pilot with just a pocket pistol. Regardless, this stuff eventually made it's way back to the guys in charge who believed nothing had changed since the Crimean War and someone started mounting guns and some primitive bombs to planes.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cool looking but moronic, being able to see well is literally the most important thing on a battlefield.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This type of equipment was usually for machine gunners and sentries.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Don't both of them actually need to see shit?
          Like, particularly sentries?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            To some extent, but not certainly dying when you inevitably get sniped, or at least thinking you might not, is valuable.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I feel like cutting out holes for the eyes is probably worth it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe they just tilted the visor up on their head by pushing the helmet back, similar to some ancient helmets.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >post a helmet with no visor
                Bad example, those eyeholes are purely for decoration.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, I know, I just didn't have what I wanted on hand. I would've posted one of those Greek statues with a Corinthian helmet pushed up on top of the head, but I don't really have one and I'm too lazy to look at the moment.
                More on the topic of this thread, I have this. Dunno if it's real or based on something that is. I was going to use it for some autistic space opera thing I had in mind as the basis for some soldier's armor, but I can't quite draw the helmet right. Body armor drawing is kinda off too in places. No idea where I put those sketches, I haven't done anything with them yet because I can only write lore, not stories about individuals. Autism, I know.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Attacks were usually signaled by artillery stopping (for a little bit), a whistle being blown, and a bunch of guys running at you en mass while shouting. machine-gunning was mostly a matter of pointing it at the noise and pulling the trigger.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's a bunch of dudes wearing monocolor uniforms (not even something that blends in most of the time) charging at you across an open, muddy field and probably screaming at the top of their lungs. If you can't aim at the colored blotches and hose them down until the screams stop, you're both blind and deaf.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The slats are enough to see through but the wearers often took so much shrapnel to the face that the masks were the only thing keeping their eyes intact.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They'd usually give you something of the sort if you were part of an assault team or something. Say if you were sent out with a few picked men in the night to raid an enemy trench, or if you were sent out to assault some fortified command post in Stalingrad. For most other men, not really the best application as far as the leadership was concerned. Shit like the Nivelle Offensive should tell you that they valued a hunk of steel more than the lives of the men they commanded most of the time. Better to let the unarmored bulk of the grunts certainly die in some poorly-planned charge straight into an MG nest than fit them with something that might save some of them during this.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Up until Vietnam most infantry soldiers were conscripted and only given a few months training. So replacing individual losses wasn't a massive issue. In Vietnam you see a shift towards professional soldiers with significantly longer training times meaning you can't just indefinitely replace losses. Same reason SOF get NVGs that cost 40k vs 5k for NG infantry.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The modern ukrainian army ( for example ) mostly consists of conscripts yet they are regularly issued body .

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ... armor

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's really not much money at all, absolute bargain for a human life

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They are overcharged! I can equip you for less than 5000 yuan, very good quality, cheap!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don’t listen to him I can get you 2 full sets for less than 60000 rupee!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/ujZ8Thq.jpg

            Don’t listen to him I can get you 2 full sets for less than 60000 rupee!

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  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Are you asking why they werent used earlier or why there wasnt more widespread usage earlier?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The latter

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they were you absolute moron

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because people had reasonable suspicion that tinny plate ain't gonna help charging machine guns.
    They tried larger coverage armor but it was too heavy.
    No much changed since.

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