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

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 1 May 2008 at 18:44, Richard Aiken wrote:

> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Kelly St.Clair <kellys at efn.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm wondering if something like a spray-on rubber coating (like that
> stuff you can spray onto the undercarriage of cars to deaden road
> noise) might reduce that?

It'd wear off *very* quickly. And it'd interfere with the flexibility 
of the mail.
 

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