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by PhantomGremlin 3723 days ago
What about vehicle armor?

Something like this would be a great improvement over the very heavy homebrew plating that our guys in Iraq and Afghanistan were forced to improvise on their Humvees? I.e. before MRAP type vehicles made it into the field.

Lighter and better armor isn't just for people, it's also for vehicles.

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It's actually very similar in a lot of ways to chobham armor, which is layers of ceramic and high strength metal in a composite structure. This seems to work similarly but with a more consistent mixture of both materials throughout a material, which might make it easier to manufacture and to work with, and possibly lighter as well.