Armor in a can!

[EvilCouch]

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/vi ... =218392807

A new "liquid armor" could be the solution for protecting the parts of the body that aren't currently covered by standard-issue ballistic vests – arms and legs, where many of these devastating and life-threatening injuries occur. Co-developed by two research teams – one led by Norman Wagner at the University of Delaware, and the other led by Eric Wetzel at the U.S. Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, MD – the liquid technology will soon lead to light, flexible full-body armor.

The liquid - called shear thickening fluid is actually a mixture of hard nanoparticles and nonevaporating liquid. It flows normally under low-energy conditions, but when agitated or hit with an impact it stiffens and behaves like a solid. This temporary stiffening occurs less than a millisecond after impact, and is caused by the nanoparticles forming tiny clusters inside the fluid. "The particles jam up forming a log jam structure that prevents things from penetrating through them," Wagner explains.

And a neat little video on it

[EvilCouch]

I can see it now. Instead of treating your uniforms in permethrin, you'll dunk em in this crap and make them into armor. :D

[Black 6]

Just be careful, the high speed hooahs might be getting friction burns from moveing to fast and their clothes freezeing up on them...... Hell you would have to strip just to rub one out....

[EvilCouch]

Someone'll figure out a way to rub one out with it on. I can guarantee that!

Probably be a Batt Boy, too.

[rgrpuck]

Yet another thread with reference to "rubbing one out "....


Classic

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[quote="Black 6"]Just be careful, the high speed hooahs might be getting friction burns from moveing to fast and their clothes freezeing up on them...... Hell you would have to strip just to rub one out....[/quote]


The mind of a Ranger....gotta love it!!