Somebody posted pics and info in the last body armor thread we had. It might still be in the bottom of the catalog if you look.
That concept seems incredibly sound in all technical aspects and it performed better than any other system in testing IIRC. Unfortunately, it failed the "aesthetics" test being a skirt and all even though I think it looks cool in a Roman Paladin meets Druid way.
Not sure how Teflon(a thermoplastic with low surface friction and high melting temperature) has to do with a thermoset plastic-titanium laminate armor.
Teflon is also used to make anti-radiation linings, again because of its low friction, and the fact it likes to form on iron; irradiated particles don't stick to it and its easy to coat the inside of pipes with it, coupled with its high melting point, make it a great coating for low-temp reactor pipelines. (the high-temp ones use something else much more complicated)
Those cooling shirts with the pipes in them has been in use since the 60's in spacesuits. (the sun heats the surface of spacesuits on EVA about 170 celsius and it cools to around -200 on the other side of the planet, the shirts they wear both heat and cool.)
These suits are only for sapper squads, right? So its basicall'y a bulletproof EOD suit? (aren't EOD suits basically bulletproof anyways to stop shrapnel?)
Gunsheilds look like they'd be best for battlerifles, given that you're supposed to use the larger guns in more open/large areas naturally devoid of cover(esp cover with holes the right size for shooting out of while still being protected well). Gunsheilds seems like a great idea to me, the shield will be pointing at the enemy(ideally)
Kevlar, it seems, is going to get another point for being armor: They use it as EXTERIOR WALLS on the ISS. Recently they tested an inflatible habitat module on the ISS, and to protext from micrometeorite strikes, the entire outside is kevlar armor.
Forgot to mention that an average micrometeorite is moving at around 10,000 meters per second (ground speed), several times faster than a bullet, and can vary greatly in size, shape, and impact direct. Orbital collisions can be very complicated, but a russian space station(salyut 7) and some satelites have been taken out by meteorites.
Well, what the fuck were you expecting to happen?
Isn't there some experimental magic bullet stopping paper they're trying out with the police? The biggest issues so far is the cost of making a good suit impervious to rifles.
It was part of the FELIN program early on, the ballistic hauberk thing was the armor they wanted for vehicle crews IIRC as an anti-spalling/shrapnel armor. It's dubious it could have withstand rifle rounds on it's own but no reason why they couldn't have added front/sides/back inserts.
Polytetrafluoroethylene is what is used to make Teflon, the whole family of the fluoropolymer is used for various neat applications (including heat, radiation and acid resistant lining).
The way I think this works is I'm assuming they're not using a thermoplastic but a thermoset (you can do both with fluoropolymer, making it highly heat resistant) in a similar crystalline structure to PTFE that, unlike most materials, almost does not undergo an impact-induced phase transition (which is why teflon has a very low friction coefficient).
The resulting coating or laminating an already strongly resistant material (like titanium alloy) with that should make it even tougher because the projectile has trouble to impart energy to the surface of the fluoropolymer resulting on most of the energy bouncing back to the projectile and ultimately in far less penetration.
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Machine guns and LMG specifically should be fitted with gunshields. Because the people carrying them are more often doing so outside of the base, away from support, and the LMG doesn't room clear often.
They changed the weird hat and skit for this.
Personally I don't care what it looks like, as long as it works.
So you admit they are not always in cover?
No it wouldn't, you would not get anywhere, hit anything and you would not adapt to the situation so you would most likely get flanked or have one part of the line broken through.
I'm going to need a citation on that one. I'm hard pressed to even find a picture of one without a CROWS mounted M2
You realize that an M2 will perforate a BTR at combat range making this shit irrelevant right?
I guess I should add that SOME units carry a designated launcher and marksman at squad level.