“That would require a yet-to-be-invented power source.”
In other words dumping a crap ton of money into yet another vaporware project.
Apparently the stuff is amazingly strong, light, and flexible, much better than anything we've got now.
If I heard it right (I was only half listening), they're trying to genetically engineering goats to make it. (Stay out of the pasture.)
Troy Hurtubise should submit something that’s based on his anti-bear armor research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CzYw5-qdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS2l5fQ55A
Expect the finished product to show up first on the no-warrant jack boots.
Gorgeous. Life imitates South Park once again. Michael Bay will want the suit to be extra explodey.
This is just an excuse to pump money into Hollywood.
Their materials experts have no advantage on the defense industry.
Gosh, maybe Gene Roddenberry could have showed them how a warp drive could work.
Hollywood body armor?
Pink and vegan first and foremost.
They are hurrying really, really fast because they know we’ve got the guns.
We don’t need body armor, we need swords and we need to fight bloody. How else will violence be committed only by the few and with darn good reason?
They would be better off pursing the Tin Man concept.
This stands for Ballistic Electro-Reactive Process and was developed by Doctor Jon Masters, another recurring character in the McLanahan series of books. This technology essentially harnesses electricity to instantly harden whatever surface it is applied to, in this case-the fabric of a combat suit. This allows it to stop bullets or other attacks as if the suit were made of steel. The only requirement is that the item being stopped must be moving at a high rate of speed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Man_(novel)
There are carbon fiber reinforced aluminum plates that for the first time passed the Army’s final unpassable test.
For fun, contractors have made standard army helmets and subjected them to an M4 round at point blank range to see if it could withstand the round.
Without exception, every test is a failure, and generally there’s a big hole, and sometimes an exit hole, except the exit hole thing can be an embarrassment to the vendor.
Recently, this test was performed on a carbon fiber reinforced aluminum army helmet. The round failed to penetrate. the dent was less than 3/8 of an inch. Obviously, the wearer of the helmet would have been perhaps fatally concussed, but that isn’t the point of the test.
The test was designed to be a laugher, and it has a lore to it. This test has been passed.
Armor is getting lighter and stronger. In fact the post-test analysis of the impact point revealed that the material had become STRONGER with work. A second impact at the same point would not have penetrated either, and would have resulted in stronger material at that point.
Converting this to body armor was relatively easy, and it is available as armor. They are building it now for tanks and APC’s.
The problem with using carbon fiber as an exoskeleton is that CFR material tends to be great in one axis, and shatters in another. So, you can make it load bearing and light, but you can shatter it with a bullet from the side.
Rather than doing this, I have to believe what’s coming down the pike is a flying drone with the ability to cover ground using either legs or wheels like a spider. You can drop it through a ceiling, and it will get its bearings and help shooters evaluate what to shoot.
They’ll make them in different sizes.
How soon before they start handing it out to the police along with the Humvees, tanks, missile launchers, F-35’s and tactical nukes the police need to projectile and service us?
Hmm, contracting out improvements of armor for our troops to lib Hollyweirdos doesn’t seem well thought out.