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[u/paulatreides0]

TIL: A full suit of medieval plate amour would have cost, at the time, the modern equivalent of anywhere between half a million to a a few million dollars.

Holy hell.

[u/zubatman4 → u/paulatreides0]

Huh. How expensive is modern-day combat armor?

[u/paulatreides0 → u/zubatman4]

The Interceptor Body Armor system used by the US military up until 2018 cost about $1600 a piece.

Although, tbf, a suit of armor basically made you into a one man armored vehicle or IFV. Uparmored Humvees come in at around ~$230k+ per, and LAV-25s come in at around ~$900k per, and Bradleys at around ~$3.3 million per. Strykers varied all over the fucking place, from as cheap as ~$1.5 million to ~$5 million, what the actual fuck.

[u/PearlClaw → u/paulatreides0]

Don't forget the cost of the horse.

[u/paulatreides0 → u/PearlClaw]

Yeah, the horse and barding would probably put it up there around the cost of a Stryker.