However, one can’t help but wonder how warriors could move enough to fight in their suits made of heavy-looking metal plates. Of course, wearing armor does appear to require more energy than not ...

I spent last weekend fighting in 14th century armor at a Renaissance Faire. A Scribe roamed the fair grounds with a big book, asking people to add their signatures, or “mark.” ...

TacTailor personnel explaining their Plate Carrier. The Tactical Tailor Fight Light Plate Carrier is significantly lighter (30% lighter) than many other PCs on the market and it's extremely ...

SHANGHAI — You’d normally find 34-year-old Gao Peng behind a computer, but today, he’s dressed in 36 kilograms of thick Ming Dynasty-style armor with metal plates scaling down his arms. In a makeshift ...

Well, well. Just a few days back, a Marine report came to light blaming some troops' deaths on the lack of plates in their body armor -- particularly side plates that protect the warfighters' flanks.

We have medieval imagery of women in armor, to be sure—paintings and illustrations depicting women from history and myth. You might see the Amazons or the goddess Minerva or the 6th century BC ...

After that, plate armor was a breeze. You could do handstands in that steel carapace, he says, and the stories of knights bogging down in their armor are exaggerated.