Worlds First 50cal rated body Armor
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Channel: Edwin Sarkissian
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Length: 17min 42sec (1062 seconds)
Published: Sun Mar 01 2020
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That's awesome. I mean... sure your ribcage will be crushed and might puncture everything, but the alternative is way worse. Hopefully you get knocked off your feet and that reduces the kinetic energy absorbed, but I hope you don't hit your head on anything either.
Need Mythbusters on this to bring out the pig corpse and impact/force sensors to see if the bullet would still be lethal. It doesnβt take much force to break a cinder block; but I would never want to volunteer to test it out. I suspect it would just be broken ribs and maybe a bruised organ or two too.
So many tumbleweeds.
You're going to wish it penetrated when you actually get hit by one and 'survive'. Survive in air quotes cause you'll surely die soon after from very intense pain and internal bleeding.
Your organs will still be turned into goo and your ribs crushed from the impac
It's amazing how far body armor tech has come in the last 30 years. I mean that's incredible. That's a full 16k lbs of force being eaten up by that vest. Sure your ribcage would be crushed, but you would also be the first dude take a Ma Deuce center mass and live.
It's just amazing.
There are a lot of misconceptions in here about how much energy bullets have. This wouldn't send you flying and it wouldn't liquefy your organs. The amount of
energyedit:momentum a bullet has is the same as the recoil the shooter feels. Granted the shooter absorbs the recoil over a longer period of time as the bullet travels down the barrel and recoil travels through the firearm, but hard armor also disperses theenergyedit:force over a larger surface area than the butt of a rifle.A few examples to prove my point. If you were to take a baseball bat to the chest it would cause a lot of damage. Now take a piece of wood the size of your chest, strap it on like armor and take the same hit. You'd be staggered a bit but you'd be fine. This is because the
energyedit:force disperses over a much larger surface area. Same thing with hard armor and a bullet. Bullets cause damage by transferring all of that kinetic energy into a very small area over a very short amount of time. Once you start stretching out those parameters it quickly mitigates their lethality.You can also point out the cinder block breaking. I'm not saying that you wouldn't feel anything inside the armor, but cinder blocks aren't exactly robust. Here's a ukulele shattering one that's been dropped about 5 feet.
Notice that the armor + the 30lb cinder block are pushed maybe a foot on the table. A person that weighs multiple times that is going to be affected even less.
Yes it might hurt, but if the armor stops the bullet you'll survive.