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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1307010" data-attributes="member: 9983">Kevlar is a ballistic fibre armour and it cuts quite easily with a pocket knife or a pair of scissors so you wouldnt be entrusting anything to it in a knife fight.While we're on the train of thought, its interesting to note the widespread issue of what is essentially 'plate armour' on the battlefield again, guess its a case of history making a full circle over time. Im just wondering how long it'll be before we start seeing a full suit of ballistic plates covering a soldier again on the battlefield rather than just inserts. Most of my military contacts are on holidays, might be interesting to catch one by the toe and make him squeel...As for a modern day sword, the titanium would be too light I think and you still rely a fair bit on the weapon being a kinetic energy delivery system, having fiddled around with a few big lumps of titanium it would make for some impressive suits of armour!For an actual blade, I reckon tungsten would be the go.It bends, its heavy and when you sharpen it, it gets scary and stays that way regardless of what you stick it into. That said, theres a fair few metal carbide alloys which would do much the same things, as an alternative there might be some high-tech ceramics capable of standing up to the punishment of being smashed against something repeatedly really damn hard and as a composite combined with something like carbon fibre you could probably make them nigh unbreakable.hmmm, for a few thousand dollars and a decent workshop I could have oh so much fun...edit:Oh, Im still sticking with my Chinese for the simple reason that theres a cubic arseload of them and I dont care how hardcore someone is if theyre outnumbered 10,000 to one <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />My second choice would be the Mongols for much the same reason.</blockquote>

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