"Millimeters-Thick Metal Foam Armor Obliterates ..." Topic

…Incoming Bullets

"For thousands of years, armor was something people wore. Gunpowder, which could launch projectiles straight through metal garments, changed that, and with the invention of the tank in World War I, armor become something people rode inside. The invention of Kevlar in 1965 brought back wearable armor, and then armor-piercing bullets were designed to punch through that. The next stage of armor might be more of a giant leap than an incremental improvement: A new type of composite metal foam can stop an armor-piercing bullet in just a fraction of an inch…"
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And yet, stormtroopers in armor will still die in droves, as quickly as their unarmored enemies do.

That is a pretty neat invention, if it works as well as advertised.

There are a lot of interesting developments in armor technology, but most of them present a problem with either space, weight, and flexibility. And then there is always cost to consider as well.

My boss recently did some interesting experiments with paper armor, stopping a point blank .357 round in under an inch of "armor". Pretty amazing to see, but there are still issues to work out to make it practical.

Type IV is nice. Depends on the weight of the total armor. Really need to get body armor weight down.