Armour, weapons and tech.

I never thought about gliders off the mountains, love to see where you could take that thought. As for the Mongols and their bows there is a very interesting thing about them in that the Mongols had a very early but still quite advanced form of composite bow made of horn and wood the wood would allow it to bend to store power and the horn made it rigid enough to hold large amounts of force in a comparatively small frame making it easier to fire on horseback but still able to pierce the armour of its day. And would fare quite well against kevlar and other bullet resistant armours since they are designed for spreading the force of a blunt object over a large area and have little effect on arrows. I find this as more proof that the Mongols of that time and thus of this time were clever in the ways that mattered to them.

Now i may be prattling on but if i remember my history classes the Australian light horse was part of one of the last if not the last horse charge of a modern military. And if i remember correctly problems faced by horses in combat included shrapnel(from grenades and artillery fire), machine gun fire, poison gas and disease(both illness and infection from wounds). These are some of the things we must find solutions for. However i feel that general illness would be at a minimum due to the care provided by the proud owners.