[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

This would be totally unnecessary if we had safer bullets.

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[353FMG]

Bulletproof underwear, that's the future.

[Ajnin]

These type inventions concern me because of their potential to make the 2nd amendment obsolete. Just wait and see what happens when the politicaians think they can screw with the public with no consequences.

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[Andy from Beaverton]

[bnelson44]

So if I understand this correctly, the bullet would push the fabric into the body causing all kinds of damage, but the fabric won't break?

What am I getting wrong here?

[GSlob]

Well, the next logical step would be exotic bullets [say, with no spin - aerodynamic stabilization with fins and long boattail, but with a small shaped charge. Impact velocity will be 8000m/sec or better]. Similar game was played by Krupp ages ago. Better armor plate - and then better artillery shell, and then still better armor plate, and again, still better shell... The Kaiser saw it right through, but had to pay from both ends anyway.

[C210N]

Where does the line form to get this technology? I think the Chinese would be interested. So would the Iranians, North Koreans, Cubans, Venezuelans, ...

[Petronski]

Bulletproof at what thickness? I mean, would the thickness and drape and feel of the fabric be the same? I'm somehow reminded of Monty Python "fake news" reporting about a man who crossed the Atlantic in a life raft...a specially modified life raft with a 38 foot fiberglass hull, three luxury cabins, twin diesel engines, a hot tub, etc....

At some point, what they call a t-shirt just isn't a mere t-shirt anymore.

[kittycatonline.com]

So why not just make bullets out of carbon nanotubes?

[dljordan]

I see a great marketing oppurtunity here for bullet-proof pajamas. Just the thing for the WOD, no-knock raids that seem to be so popular.

[Thud]

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[theBuckwheat]

While it may be possible to eventually construct fabric from threads so strong that they will not be broken by the impact from a bullet, there still remains the problem of how to dissipate the bullet's energy.

As illustrated in the article, if the fabric stopped the bullet, what would happen if this was a 'bulletproof' tee shirt, is that the bullet would proceed onward through the skin of the target subject, dragging the tee shirt with it into the wound.

For any fabric to prevent wounding by a bullet, it must have an energy-absorbing backing, which means a support or padding that can dissipate the bullet's kinetic energy over a large enough area of the human body so it will not suffer more than a bruise.

[Nachoman]

Sounds cool, but I don't want to be the first to test it.

[Condor51]

A piece of diamond .. was used as a bullet...

Someone's always trying to 'one up' the Lone Ranger.

[FYREDEUS]

Very interesting...proper nanotube weaves combined with shear thickening fluids will be a big step forward in lightweight ballistic body armour...

Of course that will then encourage military establishments to develop man-portable railguns...

Alas as long as for whatever reason some people want to kill other people, and those other people dont want to be killed by them, the arms/armour race will never end...

[longtermmemmory]

The age of metals ends and the age of the synthetic arrives

[semaj]

So, let me get this straight. The bullet wont penetrate the t-shirt fabric? That's great. So we just have to worry about the t-shirt fabric penetrating the wearer's body in the shape of a bullet. Beautiful.