Russia claims their new future body armour will stop a .50 cal
Hmmmmmmmm...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...liber-bullets/ A new Russian program to modernize the country’s ground forces is promising big advances in body armor technology. And we mean big: The Russian military equipment manufacturer Rostec promises the armor will be able to stop the bullet from a .50-caliber machine gun. Whether a soldier will ever be able to waddle to the front line, however, is a different story. |
Will the Opposition Leader be demonstrating its effectiveness? :hmm:
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Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
(Post 10984847)
Will the Opposition Leader be demonstrating its effectiveness? :hmm:
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Wont stop a .50 cal blowing your arm off.
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In fact, the .50-cal. hits with so much energy that it would likely kill you even if your body armor could stop it. The impact of the armor plate hitting your rib cage would be like taking a hit from Thor’s Hammer. That energy would still crush your organs and break apart your blood vessels and arteries, it would just allow your skin to keep most of the goop inside as you died. No laceration or cavitation, but so much crushing and shock wave that it wouldn’t matter. |
With a .50 machine gun it's unlikely to be just one round that hits - depending on the particular weapon the rate of fire is 400 - 1200 rounds per minute.
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Originally Posted by Ken Scott
(Post 10984895)
From a US website discussing ‘how a .50 cal kills you’...
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Not according to this gentleman who, despite his obvious ancestry, I believe was American...
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....121098382.jpeg |
So maybe sometime in the future the momentum of the .50 cal going forward will equal the recoil going back towards the shooter. I guess at that point our US cousins will stop shooting .50 BMG from a big rifle.
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Originally Posted by Ken Scott
(Post 10984945)
Not according to this gentleman who, despite his obvious ancestry, I believe was American...
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....121098382.jpeg |
momentum same in both directions
Originally Posted by Just This Once...
(Post 10984961)
So maybe sometime in the future the momentum of the .50 cal going forward will equal the recoil going back towards the shooter. I guess at that point our US cousins will stop shooting .50 BMG from a big rifle.
Imagine a ten pound gun firing a one ounce bullet at 1600 feet per second. It will recoil at ten feet per second. Momentum is 10*10 = 100 foot pounds. That's also true for the bullet 1/16 *1600 = 100 foot pounds. Kinetic energy of gun is 1/2mv^2 (5*10^2) = 5*100 = 500 foot pounds. Kinetic energy of bullet is also 1/2mv^2 (1/32 *1600^2) = 1/32 * 2560000 = 80,000 foot pounds. It's 160 times as much. I don't know the actual values, this is illustrative. The recoil will also include that from the high velocity gas propelling the bullet, but I believe recoil suppression devices vent much of the gas backward - at the cost of making the gun even louder. I have never fired anything bigger than a 12 bore shotgun, and that is loud enough for me! |
Maybe it will, maybe it won't....but underestimate the Russians at your peril...as the SU-57, continued space program and the Sputnik vaccine show.
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a fifty ball plinking into your armour is going to flick you away like lint, it may not penetrate, but being booted over the next county might not end well.
I'm thinking spalling... your tummy is going to have the wobbles as is every cavity of your body. The Ke is roughly the same as a 300lb mass running into you at 100kmhr, with a pointy stick that is 1/2" across. The bullet may not penetrate the vest, but the vest may penetrate the person wrapped around the bullet. gonna leave a bruise. the 50 has about 18-20kJ of kinetic energy. per standard |
Staying Power.
Originally Posted by clareprop
(Post 10985016)
Maybe it will, maybe it won't....but underestimate the Russians at your peril...as the SU-57, continued space program and the Sputnik vaccine show.
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Originally Posted by fdr
(Post 10985030)
a fifty ball plinking into your armour is going to flick you away like lint, it may not penetrate, but being booted over the next county might not end well.
I'm thinking spalling... your tummy is going to have the wobbles as is every cavity of your body. The Ke is roughly the same as a 300lb mass running into you at 100kmhr, with a pointy stick that is 1/2" across. The bullet may not penetrate the vest, but the vest may penetrate the person wrapped around the bullet. gonna leave a bruise. the 50 has about 18-20kJ of kinetic energy. per standard |
Armaments suppliers are pretty consistent, offering something that is not necessarily needed or capable of being used/ As long as it gets the Dollars / Rubles / Euros or whatever currency then the end justifies the BS.
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I saw a show a while back where they were demonstrating the US Army's 50 cal sniper rifle. It was punching a hole through half inch armor plate at something like 500 yds. I also seem to recall they have an "armor piercing" round for the 50 cal machine gun. Hard to believe they could come up with body armor that could stop that - at least body armor that anyone would be able to wear and still move...
Maybe the Russians are re-defining body armor as a small one person tank :ok: |
I thought Boris was a bullet dodger ?
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Sure .... it’ll probably just deflect the round .... right up his nose!
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Very efficient use of propellent (?) which if ignited in a bowl in front of you would be harmless(?)
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Maybe the Russians are re-defining body armor as a small one person tank https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif |
Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
(Post 10984847)
Will the Opposition Leader be demonstrating its effectiveness? :hmm:
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Originally Posted by innuendo
(Post 10985238)
I was wondering when someone would ask what this body armour would look like. Something that can withstand a .50 cal may not be too portable.
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How thick is it - couple of feet?
I have never fired anything bigger than a 12 bore shotgun, and that is loud enough for me! |
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Even if true, it will have some negative affects. That helicopter that could carry X number of soldiers is now at X minus some number. That meaning more helicopters are needed or fewer soldiers are available, same for vehicles, etc. That means a greater logistics/support tail and so on.
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Russia claim their new future body armour will stoo a .50 calibre
I am afraid they are away with the fairies. I remember not too long ago a U.S SPECIAL SNIPER USED A BARRETT M82 50 CALIBRE ..NOW GET THIS.
HE TARGETED A TALIBAN AT ALMOST 1 MILE AFTER MANY CALIBRATIONS TI HIS RIFLE AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT TEMP. PLUS WIND SPEED.WHILE AIMING ANOTHER TALIBAN WAS STANDING BEHIBD TARGET. TRIGGER PULLED ..RESULT 2 DEAD TALIBAN, BULLET WENT RIGHT THROUGH ORIGIONAL TARGET. IT WA RECOGNISED AS THE LONGEST SNIOER KILL EVER RECORDED. YGE M82 WEIGHS APPRIX 30 LBS AND THE RECOIL IS DEVASTING IF THEY THINK THIS BODY ARMOUR WILL PROTECT THE TROUPS. IT WILL BE LIKE SHOOTING FISH IB A BARRELL FOR SHrpshooters. KEEP SAFE GUYS. |
Might be better to wear Teflon coated silk shirts in various shades and hues . Hoping for a through and through effect .The Teflon might aid the passage of the round through the body before the projectile could give up or transfer the energy to the surrounding flesh or bone . Just mitigating the effect of the round , so all you have to deal with is a very large transfer hole rather than the explosive carnage created by the energy transfer hydrostatic shock that can inflict devastating wounds . The type of wounding that was mentioned briefly in the Geneva Conventions limiting the types of ammunition’s that can be used against humans.
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No real issue making a strikeplate that can stop a .50BMG, stopping the spalling that will occur from the hit could however be a problem.
Hit will likely break some ribs but I'd rather live with that than a .50 hole in the chest! Here's a wearable plate stopping a .50 API round from up close. |
So there’s no hole in the body
Big deal, but easier for the undertaker
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Broke a concrete block and imprinted the inner lining onto a block of wood - perhaps a soft little human would not have fared very well from that hit.
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Originally Posted by fergusd
(Post 10985140)
Your energy calc is erronous, 20kJ is 110lbs@100kmh or about 2 large dogs@1100 inches/second . . . probaby knock you over . . .
Dang if I wasn't wrong, Fergusd, am I married to you? anyway Fergy is right... have a look at the crash test dummy, and the movement. The Hornady 50 750gr A-MAX is around. 15.2 Kj, for this test and that barely moved. The dummy does have an imprint on the skin from the writing on the armour inside, but if a new tattoo is the only thing that happens, then that is pretty impressive, the shot to the head of course is less fun. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9e7b9957c5.png |
Lots depend on the round fired though, stopping a regular fmj vs stopping something like a Raufoss Mk211 or SLAP round is a world apart!
Just don’t forget to remove the muzzle break if you intend to use SLAP rounds or things could go wrong! As for backface deformation, armour is usually tested with a clay backing to capture the imprint. Last one I wore was rated to .308AP, ceramic with some metal backing from memory. 10m test shots didn’t even dent the back. |
Originally Posted by fitliker
(Post 10985173)
I thought Boris was a bullet dodger ?
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Originally Posted by KARNAK66
(Post 10985682)
I am afraid they are away with the fairies. I remember not too long ago a U.S SPECIAL SNIPER USED A BARRETT M82 50 CALIBRE ..NOW GET THIS.
HE TARGETED A TALIBAN AT ALMOST 1 MILE AFTER MANY CALIBRATIONS TI HIS RIFLE AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT TEMP. PLUS WIND SPEED.WHILE AIMING ANOTHER TALIBAN WAS STANDING BEHIBD TARGET. TRIGGER PULLED ..RESULT 2 DEAD TALIBAN, BULLET WENT RIGHT THROUGH ORIGIONAL TARGET. IT WA RECOGNISED AS THE LONGEST SNIOER KILL EVER RECORDED. YGE M82 WEIGHS APPRIX 30 LBS AND THE RECOIL IS DEVASTING IF THEY THINK THIS BODY ARMOUR WILL PROTECT THE TROUPS. IT WILL BE LIKE SHOOTING FISH IB A BARRELL FOR SHrpshooters. KEEP SAFE GUYS. |
Impressive armour. Quite a lot of energy dissipated in smashing a breeze block though and I wouldn't want to try it myself! Very different behaviour to an elastic chest wall which dissipates some energy in deforming, so neither the block nor the test dummy show us much about behind armour blunt trauma injury. I imagine it would be Seriously Ouchy. Interesting read about body armour testing here https://www.nap.edu/read/13390/chapter/10#175
But I'm impressed by a plate that stops a 50BMG penetrating from so close. |
I don't think that the design is to protect the wearer from a .50cal. It is most probably intended to be very effective agains more conventional infantry weapons such as 7.62 on an AK47. They just happened to find out that in certain circumstances it may block the .50 cal as well. Hence the propaganda.
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Originally Posted by fitliker
(Post 10985859)
Might be better to wear Teflon coated silk shirts in various shades and hues . Hoping for a through and through effect .The Teflon might aid the passage of the round through the body before the projectile could give up or transfer the energy to the surrounding flesh or bone . Just mitigating the effect of the round , so all you have to deal with is a very large transfer hole rather than the explosive carnage created by the energy transfer hydrostatic shock that can inflict devastating wounds . The type of wounding that was mentioned briefly in the Geneva Conventions limiting the types of ammunition’s that can be used against humans.
Silk is one of the strongest materials to use and has been used in body armour for years, in fact if one certain person had bothered to put his on, WW1 might not have happened., https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...oyal-armouries https://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/silk-body-armor/ |
If this is the stuff you can pick up at Walmart, presumably the "real" stuff is even more impressive?
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Originally Posted by fergusd
(Post 10985140)
Your energy calc is erronous, 20kJ is 110lbs@100kmh or about 2 large dogs@1100 inches/second . . . probaby knock you over . . .
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