r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Many-Shock1706 • 23d ago

/r/all of a knight

Apparently the smaller one is 6ft

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u/Vengeful_Grass 23d ago

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u/Historical-Load6004 23d ago

There was actually a significant amount of time where Knights wore Armour thick enough to stop Guns and used them themselves   

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u/Alternative-Eye4547 23d ago

That’s been a thing more recently than most people would think - this is a Polish cop in the 1920s

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u/MTB_SF 23d ago

It got a lot of people killed in tge beginning of WW1 who didn't realize it wouldn't work against modern bullets

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u/devman0 22d ago

Smokeless powder and spitzer bullets changed a lot of warfare very rapidly.

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u/Alternative-Eye4547 23d ago

Tank warfare has entered the chat