Bulletproof Armor Testing

What's cooler: bullet or armor? This decades-long dispute over the decades has not been unambiguously answered for a number of reasons. Among these reasons and the fact that it is important to decide which specific bullets and which specific armor you need to talk about. It is also important to consider that neither armor technology nor ammunition technology stand still and are constantly being improved.

One of the methods that have proved to be effective is to stop the bullet or reduce its lethal force to almost zero - the so-called bullet-dispersing armor. There are many options, including a special technological solution in the form of a mesh screen. The elements of such a screen when fired at it are capable of turning a bullet into several separate elements, which, after exiting the screen, lose their killer characteristic.

The mesh screen, among other things, can also act as a truly insurmountable obstacle for a bullet. In the next plot of the “Military Acceptance” on the Zvezda shopping center, bullet-dispersing armor is tested, which, as already noted, can also act as a “bullet trap”.

Experts note that the mesh screens are able to protect not only from pistol or automatic bullets, but also from the ammunition of sniper rifles and even from grenade fragments fired from various modifications of grenade launchers.

Comments

[sen]

In the end, almost all the bottles were cut with fragments of bullets, although the bottles did not stand close to the screen.
Somehow not very.

[geologist]

There is another option - a special form of helmet and armor with rational bullet ricocheting angles, supplemented by a "deck of cards". A "deck of cards" is a set of sliding scales that will change the direction of the bullet's movement away from the body.

[almost demobil]

Isn’t it easier than ordinary concrete slabs instead of cutting dough?

[srha]

At the end it sounded: "How to change?"
- the first thing that comes to mind, once in the design, we switched from solid protection to protection with linear gratings (segments), the next move is the transition to a point one. Those. instead of a section of the lattice, several reinforced point nodes.
- second, replace the rigid structure with an elastic one, then the time and volume of interaction will increase, which means the effect will be greater.
- the third, to add tight-fitting traps, like a wrapper for a bullet.
- the fourth, Dmitry above has already proposed to supplement the principle of rebounding, i.e. introduce elements of elastic collision in which a bullet would transmit part of its energy to these elements (like balls collide), and preferably at an angle.
- labyrinthine, the location of the structural elements should deflect the bullets to the sides, then the distance of interaction (blanking) increases, etc.
Surely they will offer more.

PS. And if you fill the lattice space with filler, the design will receive additional viscosity and elasticity, but ... then it will become not an easy lattice, but a composite armor.