Body armor that floats? and repels radiation? (and bullets)
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 5:35 pm
Metal foam obliterates bullets – and that's just the beginning
And because it's foam, not solid metal, it can float. Maybe they can finally make an unsinkable ship.
I had to look up 7.62x63. That's a .30-06.The bullet in the video is a 7.62 x 63 millimeter M2 armor piercing projectile, which was fired according to the standard testing procedures established by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). And the results were dramatic.
"We could stop the bullet at a total thickness of less than an inch, while the indentation on the back was less than 8 millimeters," Rabiei says. "To put that in context, the NIJ standard allows up to 44 millimeters indentation in the back of an armor."
And because it's foam, not solid metal, it can float. Maybe they can finally make an unsinkable ship.