U.S. Military Uses the Force
Mike Rosing
eresrch at eskimo.com
Thu Aug 22 08:11:11 PDT 2002
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 keyser-soze at hushmail.com wrote:
> [[I wonder if a similar techique can be used against bullets for personal armor or home defense.]
It also says:
"Electric armor only weighs a ton or two,"
Not exactly something you can use for bullets :-)
It sounds like it's just an MHD instability. The shaped charge of the RPG
is a copper jet - so the high current pulse breaks it up. Fire 3 in a row
and there's not much current left - depends on how they generate the
current between the plates. So you might be able to spread out a bullet
and reduce the impact on a kevlar shield. As it is now, the kevlar works
amazingly well and is pretty light. And not very expensive either :-)
Fun physics in any case.
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
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