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Metal foam turns armor-piercing bullets into dust
serf
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Will the armor piercing bullet catch up? How about gold mix with titanium ? 4 times harder than steel?
serf
http://www.gizmag.com/metal-foam-bullets/42731/?li_source=LI&li_medium=default-widget
Building on this previous work, Rabiei then set about building high-strength armor. The shield was comprised of boron carbide ceramics as the strike face, with composite metal foam (CMF) as the bullet kinetic energy absorber layer and Kevlar panels as backplates. To test its durability, Rabiei and her team took aim with a 7.62 x 63 mm M2 armor-piercing projectile, which was fired in line with the standard testing procedures established by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
"We could stop the bullet at a total thickness of less than an inch, while the indentation on the back was less than 8 mm," Rabiei says. "To put that in context, the NIJ standard allows up to 44 mm (1.73 in) indentation in the back of an armor."
Freebie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fBkNIROg4
serf
http://www.gizmag.com/metal-foam-bullets/42731/?li_source=LI&li_medium=default-widget
Building on this previous work, Rabiei then set about building high-strength armor. The shield was comprised of boron carbide ceramics as the strike face, with composite metal foam (CMF) as the bullet kinetic energy absorber layer and Kevlar panels as backplates. To test its durability, Rabiei and her team took aim with a 7.62 x 63 mm M2 armor-piercing projectile, which was fired in line with the standard testing procedures established by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
"We could stop the bullet at a total thickness of less than an inch, while the indentation on the back was less than 8 mm," Rabiei says. "To put that in context, the NIJ standard allows up to 44 mm (1.73 in) indentation in the back of an armor."
Freebie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fBkNIROg4
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Fools and foolproof the never ending battle of the wit and witless.
They don't call it an arms race for nothing. One of the first rail guns drove a 2 ounce Lexan cube at .6 the speed of light, and it penetrated almost 2' of armor plate.
Fools and foolproof the never ending battle of the wit and witless.
Ok,of course this was done in an absolute vacuum if your claiming it's over half light speed. We are all g_d's fools anyway when it comes to wit and the witless.
serf