Tag: body

  • Boron Treated T-Shirts For Stopping Bullets

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    Researchers at the University of South Carolina, collaborating with others from China and Switzerland, drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide, the same material used to protect tanks.…

  • Rifle Cartridge Face Piercing

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    Hopefully this was just done temporarily as “proof of concept”: Looks like .308 for everything but the one through the nose, which appears to be 7.62×39 Look how much his ear lobes are stretched too.   He should have went all the way and put some 37mm (grenade! :P) rounds through them! Definitely not a look…

  • Stopping power of body armor diagram

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      Body Armor Performance Standards:   Level IIA New armor protects against 8 g (124 gr) 9x19mm Parabellum Full Metal Jacketed Round Nose (FMJ RN) bullets at a velocity of 373 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1225 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and 11.7 g (180 gr) .40 S&W Full Metal Jacketed (FMJ) bullets at a velocity…