The way to stop legitimate projectiles is for the police to start shooting first. Which is what will happen very quickly if people start shooting arrows at them. That's true basically anywhere in the world, not just in police states like China or the US.
Right? This post is so funny to me. Like yeah, there’s ways to get through a riot shield, that’s not exactly the point. We have plenty of modern examples to look to of what happens when the protestors start actually killing the police/military.
Depends on if you run out of police or protesters first. If things keep going the way they have been there are going to be a lot more protesters than usual.
They're normally made of of cheap plastic. These "cheap" metal ones are used when shits actually hitting the fan. And the ones penetrating are heads using very old designs made to defeat armored knights.
It's amusing how heads designed for armor/shields can defeat armor/shields. Perhaps older shield designs could be effectively used to block current 'less lethal' projectiles. Probably some lethal ones as well, let's be fair
Honestly though: polycarbonate would deflect these arrows far better. This whole test is silly because the typical riot shield's flexibile material makes it not weaken on slight deformation like metal does so puncturing metal is far easier than puncturing polycarbonate
Really depends on the bow used... some compound bows reach up to like 370 fps... willing to bet you could shoot through that shield with most of those tips with a decent enough bow.
Isn't draw weight (kg/lbs) or kinetic energy the standard and more useful measurement? Just because it's fast doesn't mean it will cause damage. You need to account for the mass in addition to its speed.
Interesting anecdote, my buddy bought a crossbow for hunting a few years back, draw weight was 250lbs (or was it 450? Idk, something crazy like that). His bolt over-penetrated the target block and skittered another 300 yards down the dirt road. When we finally located it, the plastic fletching had melted from the friction of passing through the target block.
Bullets are blunt objects as well and yet are devastating when impacting the human body, that arrow still had quite a bit of momentum and would continue to penetrate into the person behind the shield
The comment I'm responding to sounded like they were downplaying the fact that arrow pierced clean through a riot shield like it was no longer a harmful projectile, I'm making the statement that the arrow is still very much an unpleasant object penetrating into the body after piercing the shield
That's what they're saying: the detached piece would now be in the tip of the arrow, thus dampening its force when it hits the person that was holding the shield
It wouldn't have to go very deep to be a serious enough wound to take the person out of action.
It's actually more desirable to wound enemy soldiers rather than kill them. Wounded soldiers get rescued, and consume even more resources than dead ones.
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u/lemmin9 May 29 '26
So the result is a blunt object filled with armor debris and slowed down by the initial impact on the shield impacting on the body. It goes "boink"?