You have an R&D team and production facility with a $10 billion dollar budget to make equipment that would appear mundane to 14th century European militaries. How much can you accomplish with simply utilizing 21st century metallurgy? Can you do anything significant with the form with modern testing and simulations?How much better do you think you can make equipment than contemporaries of the target period?tl;dr how much better could you make late medieval equipment in the modern day assuming performance and not appearing magical or divine were the goals.
>>64475444just make it out of alloys that they didn't have access to, and stuff composite rubbers into the cloth sections to absorb blows
>>64475444Modern bows and arrows made of modern materials. It would be significantly better than what they have but it would all be understandable to them.
>>64475444For the weapon and any metal components of the armor, maraging steels are the strongest metal available in the world in terms of tensile strength. They are made by induction melting the ingredients under a vacuum to prevent any possible impurities from atmospheric gases, then using an electric arc to melt and resolidify the metal drop by drop into a new ingot, concentrating out even the minuscule amount of impurities that it did have, while creating a directionally uniform grain structure, resulting in a metal that would be practically supernatural by medieval standards made using techniques you couldn't even explain to them. Titanium might also perform well as an armor material because of its strength to weight ratio, but in terms of absolute strength it's nowhere close.
>>64475444We can make swords capable to cut through modern steel:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Zf1wuZuqzkAlso man-portable and heavy guns:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_artillery_in_the_Middle_AgesIn fact you would be capable to effectively build many of Da Vinci theoretical weapons because you will now have the scientific knowledge, experience and materials and industrial basis to make them work.
>>64475444The 15th century is late medieval and this was never a controversial fact until recently.
>>64475560People 100 years from now would probably have no problems building real battlemechs, not really because they would be needed as there may be other sort of weapons but because they will be capable to do so.
>>64475567The OP never mentioned the 15th century and merely called the 14th late medieval. Why are you responding as if you're defending a point attacked in the OP?
>>64475759He's a 15th century medieval researcher who has been disgraced by an academic colleague after he said it was late medieval while it instead is considered early renaissance period.Or he's retarded.
>>64475444>How much can you accomplish with simply utilizing 21st century metallurgy?I would also spend quite a bit of that money on research and the relevant documentation, you'd be amazed how wrong most of our common idea of this era actually is, although pic related is probably also a bit of a romantic vision. By the way, for anyone interested, this one is from the 'Le Grand Armorial équestre de la Toison d'or'
>>64475929Also, the Burgundian knight looks absolutely fabulous/10
>>64475932>charleroi>black loin rampant on a field of gold I find this funny in a way only b*lgians can
>>64475516>Titanium might also perform well as an armor material because of its strength to weight ratioIt's strength:weight isn't all that special, fancy alloy steels can match it, and some aluminum and magnesium alloys like 7068 can exceed it. Titanium is mainly useful if you need its heat or corrosion resistance properties.I think composites would be areas where a lot of improvement could be made. The technology was even known at the time but could be greatly improved with modern materials.
>>64475444Every infantryman gets a cuirass and a metal helmet from a hydraulic press. Every infantryman gets properly preserved food in tins. Every cook wagon gets a high capacity still to produce clean water. That right there will conquer pretty much all of Europe.
>>64477150based and logisticspilled
>>64475444I'd order larp gear from China then pocket the leftover money
All these fags and their fancy metals.Titanium? Really!?!? Just use aluminum. Incredibly light and almost impervious to any force you can apply to it by hand with the thickness you can achieve for its lightness. Duralumin is good.
>>64477953>almost impervious to any force you can apply to it by handThat's just not true though is it, it'll deform from heavy blows
the key isnt about making it better, its about making it quicker and more efficiently, so you can shit out fully kitted out men at arms in the millionsyou create stamping dyes for all the different shapes, and dyes for different sizes of person, pop rivet them together, use synthetic straps for the articulations instead of leather, cerakote it all, make an assembly line for halberd heads using flat sheets of steel that get cut into shape and tapered down before hardening and sharpening, then weld them all to 8 foot long steel pipes, and a spike welded to the bottom
>>64478930I believe die is how you spell the metal punching thing and dye is the pigment to stain cloth
An absurd amount of crossbows.
>>64475444I make a bunch of swords out of the kitchen sink and watch them marvel as it never rusts and keeps its edge
I can't.Fucking. BREATHE.***There is actually a place in Moldova named "Gypsy Pit", because yes there is a huge pit there, and they used to throw Gypsies in it***
>>64477127Aluminum fatigues far too easily for structural applications, while titanium has amazing fatigue life. When people are making a chassis or submarine hull or ballistic plate that needs to take a beating and sparing no expense they pick titanium for a reason. I think medieval armor definitely falls into the "needs to take repeated beatings" category.
>>64479121Also alzheimers
>>64475444Kevlar gambesons
>>64479033chromed plastic swords?
