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Israeli Company Creates Nano-Armor

Posted by Zonk on from the one-step-closer-to-vigilante-superheroes dept.

Izeickl writes "According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties. During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter. These materials could be incorporated in "nanoarmors" able to protect soldiers or police forces within three years."

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  1. Getting your point across. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter."

    How about teflon-coated bullets? Or armor-piercing shells?

    1. Re:Getting your point across. by damian+cosmas · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ...or bullets made of the same ultra-strong material?

    2. Re:Getting your point across. by Sensible+Clod · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well, bullets made of the same stuff wouldn't be very heavy, so maybe you mean bullets coated with it...still, an interesting question.

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  2. Just me? by blank89 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think I would rather it go to the police than the army. Does anyone else agree?

    1. Re:Just me? by blank89 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's true that both parties could use protection, but the defense budget is large enough as it is. Most likely, it would go to soldiers first, and police 5 years from now. Police often lack the basic equipment they need to take care of the better prepared criminals as it is, and it has been that way for a long time.

    2. Re:Just me? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 2, Interesting


      I don't much care if it goes to the police or the military, so long as they're still seperate. But have you seen the medieval armour illustration that goes with this? If the material is as light as they say, and as strong as they say, then what's the most logical styling for this stuff? I can see a renaissance in medieval style armours. :) Imagine the police walking along in ultra-light bullet-proof plate-mail. Adds a certain romance, doesn't it?

      Of course, escalation means people quickly resort to gas / spray / sonic / blinding weapons. But personally, as soon as the Chinese start knocking off cheap versions of this (it sounds like most of the cost of this stuff will be patent monopoly), I'm going to look so good in my impact-resistant plate-mail.

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  3. Sometimes seems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I know it has many other applications as well, but its sad to think that something like this will be used first and foremost, to minimize a country's casualities, so that the country can perpetrate more violence, for a longer time period with minimum consequence to itself...

    I wonder if there will ever come a time when a country will be able to kill, maim, and impose its will on other countries with zero casualities to itself. What would be the incentive for such a country to push for peace?

  4. Call me a skeptic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I've seen other "incredible" technologies on this website and it seems they're slightly too good to be true. I'm not saying it's entirely vaporware, but they definately highlight only the strengths. Why? At the bottom, they're looking for external funding, complete with company details.

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  5. In The Cross Hairs by Criliric · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What affect would said armour have on a head shot....

    I mean IF a helmet was made... would the user suffer a concussion? Or just feel nothing...?

  6. Re:I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's what I meant by 'crater.' There are some excellent examples at The Box O' Truth website. The tests with level IIIA armor and bulletproof glass give me a lot of respect for a 12 gauge slug.