Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Anyone can shoot through armor, the invention that would have changed history! DEBUNKED" video.

  1. A thought came to mind here... What if cavalry charges actually made it so armour worn by knights offered LESS protection against arrows compared to if they were stationary? Here's my thinking: when knights do a cavalry charge, they're travelling at a pretty significant speed. So with an incoming arrow coming from the opposite direction, the impact wouldn't solely be affected by the speed the arrow travels, but also by the speed which the knight is moving into the arrow. Would be a very interesting experiment to conduct to see if damage to armour is greater when it travels at speed into oncoming arrows as opposed to being stationary.
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  2.  @AKUJIVALDO  Lol clearly physics isn't your thing. Yes an arrow and a knight travels at different speeds, obviously. Recurve bow arrows can travel at speeds up to 150 mph. So if shot at a stationary target, the arrow will hit it a bit below 150 mph (it loses horizontal velocity the longer it travels due to gravitational pull and air resistance). A horse galloping speed however is somewhere between 25-30 mph. If a knight is charging at the archer, then the target is no longer stationary. It's moving TOWARDS the archer (and the arrow) at a significant velocity. Meaning that when the arrow hits the charging knight, it hits it at slightly below 150 + 25 or up to 150 + 30 mph, because the opposite velocity of the knight is added to the velocity of the arrow when determining energy transfer to the target, according to the laws of physics.
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