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Russia claims their new future body armour will stop a .50 cal

Old 17th Feb 2021, 02:40
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212 & megan - spot on!
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Old 17th Feb 2021, 10:22
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I thought the same.
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Old 17th Feb 2021, 22:17
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Originally Posted by megan
Why pick on a poor inocent doe, what about herd management of homo sapiens?

You volunteering to go first?
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Old 17th Feb 2021, 23:41
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When invoking momentum vs kinetic energy, keep in mind that the momentum rule only applies to non deformable solids. The firing gun and the fired bullet are essentially non deformable, and the gases have negligible mass, so the momentum rule applies to compute recoil.
When hitting the target, a lot of deformation occurs, and the kinetic energy is mostly converted into havoc and heat, so it's perfectly plausible that a well designed armor plate converts much of the kinetic energy into deformation of these fancy ceramics, leaving very little momentum (provided enough damping layers) to harm the wearer.
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Old 18th Feb 2021, 00:37
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You volunteering to go first?
Always the gentleman, after you.
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Old 18th Feb 2021, 20:32
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Originally Posted by Petit-Lion
When invoking momentum vs kinetic energy, keep in mind that the momentum rule only applies to non deformable solids. The firing gun and the fired bullet are essentially non deformable, and the gases have negligible mass, so the momentum rule applies to compute recoil.
When hitting the target, a lot of deformation occurs, and the kinetic energy is mostly converted into havoc and heat, so it's perfectly plausible that a well designed armor plate converts much of the kinetic energy into deformation of these fancy ceramics, leaving very little momentum (provided enough damping layers) to harm the wearer.
You may have my turn to test the armour, but do check your Life Insurance first.
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Old 19th Feb 2021, 13:53
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Originally Posted by highflyer40
Whats with all caps? Anyways you are wrong. The longest ever sniper shot has been attributed to a Canadian special forces operator.
The Canadian sniper also hit his target at well over 2 miles.
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Old 19th Feb 2021, 14:02
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Originally Posted by KARNAK66
Highflyer40,
You made reference to our cousins over the border having a longer a longer sniper shot.
Appreciate hearing about tbis I.m interested
1.Type of sniper rifle used.and make.
2. Calibre.
3 When this took place and where
4. How many enemy did he obliterate.
5. If there were no kills involved who cares without kills involved its a waste of time.
6. The Snper involved in what I referred to hiw far do you rekon the bullett would have traavelled if it had not had to blow these 2 insurgents apart.
You will notice I did not use all caps just to keep you HAPPY.
Its not hard to find the information. You could have found it quicker typing in “longest sniper shot” into google than it took you to type your message above!
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In post 60 I should have called the unit I was using poundals, not pounds force. Otherwise correct. I am more accustomed to metric.
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