Scarywoody
04-09-2016, 06:23 PM
I read this article and thought you guys interesting as well.
With a thickness of just 25 millimeters, the armor consists of "ceramics as the strike face, composite metal foam processed by powder metallurgy technique as a bullet kinetic energy absorber interlayer, and aluminum 7075 or Kevlar™ panels as backplates,"
http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0409/Bullet-stopping-foam-Not-sci-fi-after-all
With a thickness of just 25 millimeters, the armor consists of "ceramics as the strike face, composite metal foam processed by powder metallurgy technique as a bullet kinetic energy absorber interlayer, and aluminum 7075 or Kevlar™ panels as backplates,"
http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0409/Bullet-stopping-foam-Not-sci-fi-after-all