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

[Evyn MacDude]

On  May02 08, at 20:09, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 5/2/08 6:22 PM, "Tom B" <kaladorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> technological (for a long time, we had crappy crossbows and bows, but
>> eventually standards of manufacture and quality arrived to allow mass
>> manufacture of decent enough military weapons with good penetration)
>> craft-oriented (In Japan, swords were made very particular ways, so
>> they were very expensive...
> OK, I agreed with basically everything you said, but this one bit.   
> Mass
> production *doesn't* lead to better quality.  In fact, it usually  
> takes
> quality shortcuts.  There's a reason those handmade Japanese swords  
> are so
> famous...  :)

And 5 centuries of further development didn't hurt either.

Evyn MacDude
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