15 Incredible Types of Armor

Skilled craftsmen and armorsmiths create the most amazing types of armor. Here are the top 15 most incredible armor creations.

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[dickmcshan]

Yes, jaguar were in the area for them to stylize and construct their look. One note: the pictured "jaguar" was, in fact, a cheetah . ;)

[hobbyfarmer]

Having made and worn the Lorica segmentata the real amazing thing about is how much flexibility and freedom of movement the set provides.

[jkre]

I'm pretty sure that late medieval plate armor is way more known than lorica segmentata. Over all most people first think of knight in full plate armor when armor is mentioned, not the roman legionary.

[thomaskennedy]

I love this channel because of the content and the voice of Charlie Sheen telling me a story.

[spacemanproletariat]

Damn sucks that the thumbnail was clickbait, looks interesting

[stevedunn]

First few minutes. Winged hussars. The thing that made them very efficient was the 20 foot lances that were hollow. An innovative and light weapon.

[RaphaelFassa]

4:32 "It was the Aztec belief that the Jaguar..."

**Shows a cheetah**

[malahamavet]

there were thousands of armors in the medieval times (...)
*starts with 17 century armor

[dianamitchell]

The war elephants get me everytime. The original battle tanks. Thank you so much for this video.

[TheEyez]

5:00 - They did wear armour. The Aztec (Jaguar + Eagle) warriors wore cotton armour called 'Ichcahuipilli', like a medieval gambeson, capable of stopping arrows, swords, darts and even musket shots!

[sonomos]

Just one thing about those Polish Hussars. They had those wings for two reasons. 1st is it was decoration, 2nd - the much more important was, cause of Mongolian empire's expansion. During their invasion their riders used Lasso to pull down the riders from their horses, but those wings made it ineffective, cause it was not able to fully fix the rider due to them, and it gave the rider chance to maneuver and eventually break it.

[lukassamye]

6:33 the yellow armor belongs to Qing Dynasty, it was not a Mongol armor.

[yo._._]

The armor of the Seleucid Cataphracts is incredible too.

[thomastorres]

"couirre bouwili" omg 😂 can't listen to this without thinking of all the people having a bad time trying to learn french

[oldshatterhand]

"Deadliest animal in South América"... the Aztecs were in Mexico, and Mexico is in NORTH America, South America would be the Incas. Aztecs North America, Mayans North and Central, Incas South

[miikkavalimaki]

"and the winged Hussars arrive!"

[jordanjay]

War elephants were smart enough to know who the enemy was and attacked them

[super_morto]

I came here because of the thumbnail, I didn't watch the video. GREAT

[jkre]

Chainmail or more properly mail armor doesn't spread the force of the impact, it is as flexible as a t-shirt, armor needs to be ridgin to spread the impact, like plate armor. Allso mail was very rarely used alone, it was in most cases used with gambeson, a thick layered cloth armor, that alone could stop most sword strikes, but mainly used as padding under mail, cus mail doesn't protect from blunt force trauma.

[jaystreet]

You forgot the most powerful armor of all! Plot armor