[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Kelly St.Clair]

At 11:40 PM 4/30/2008, "Tom B" <kaladorn at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >  deployed in the Middle East.  In fact, he gleefully steals some
> >  current military slang (such as "battle rattle," for the noise
> >  ceramic-plate-armor makes when you're hustling), for use in his second
> >  book.
>
>Tangent:
>
>I'll bet you a Roman Legionaire in full panoply would rattle about the same.

One of the interesting little details of my time in the SCA, which added to 
my experience as a gamer, was finding out what chainmail feels like (to the 
touch, and on your body) and sounds like.  A person walking in a chain 
hauberk and articulated-plate leg armor makes a very distinctive 
"shing-shing-shing" noise with each step, on top of the clatter of the leg 
pieces.

ObTrav (ob war, even):  low sensor signature, mobility, protection: pick two?


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