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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

AJBert
04-09-2016, 10:23 PM
Sounds a heck of a lot lighter than what I wore over in the sand box a few years ago!