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

[Tom B]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> 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...  :)

No, but some form of mass production is generally necessary for
widespread military adaptation and adoption.

The point wasn't that one led to the other, more that both were
necessary (better quality and an ability to produce enough to be
militarily significant).

In the case of the English, the Yeomanry trained with them a fair bit
which helped a lot with the capability level of the English
Longbowman.