Reply #27: Carbon nanotube fabric [View All]

[formercia]

will probably be the wave of the future combined with other materials.

The biggest problem now is not necessarily stopping the bullet. Dragon skin body armor has been proven to stop 7.62x54 armor piercing rounds, but mitigating the blunt trauma injuries that occur, not from the penetration of the projectile, but the dissipation of the projectile's energy over a small area. Backing the armor with a high-tensile strength cushion made of carbon-nanotube fabric would spread the energy over a much larger area.

There comes a point where all of the armor in the World won't protect you if the transmitted energy exceeds the ability of your body to withstand it. There are many cases where people have been killed by blast pressure but showed no external sign of injury.