Interesting-lightweight bullet proof foam.

[SEIndSAM]

This could be a new wave for the future,

This foam stops bullets cold and pulverizes them to dust | Fox News

 

[spencer rifle]

 

[Bfish]

Seems pretty cool! I'd like to see some videos and things for sure.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Chicago building code will require homes be insulated with that

 

[Bybo]

I'd be nervous walking into a gun fight wearing high tech packing material

 

[JollyMon]

I'd be nervous walking into a gun fight wearing high tech packing material

Why? technology always improves. Maybe you can go back to wearing chainmail armor and carrying a 25 pound shield. Or wearing a flak jacket that wasnt bullet proof.

 

[Bfish]

Chicago building code will require homes be insulated with that

That is funny! But it would be cool if this foam is super inexpensive and you could do such a thing!

 

[Timjoebillybob]

That is funny! But it would be cool if this foam is super inexpensive and you could do such a thing!

It would be funny if it wasn't probably true.

 

[Alamo]

Looks to me like you still need a plate. It ain't all foam:

To challenge the foam material with bullets, the team built a shield. The strike face - the side facing the weapon - was made with the new composite metal foam together with boron carbide ceramics. The backplates – the side that would face the user - were made of Kevlar....The foam worked so well that an armor-piercing round could only penetrate less than an inch on the weapon-facing side of the shield.On the side facing the warfighter’s body, the bullet was only able to cause an 8 mm indentation on the back .

Maybe the plate was just a backstop, but sounds kind of like it is part of the armor.I still think this is a cool innovation, but I don't think it is like wrapping oneself in bubble wrap.Especially since the foam sounds like it is very rigid:

To make it, the team takes molten metal and bubbles gas through it. This process creates a sort of froth. When the froth cools, it becomes a lightweight, ultra strong matrix material.

I think the heat and radiation shielding are pretty cool applications too.

 

[Alamo]

Chicago building code will require homes be insulated with that

Only fourth post in and the doc drops the thread winner.

 

[BE Mike]

An Iranian woman invents something that may be used to save the lives of US troops and first responders. How ironic!