Fox NewsScientists in Poland are working on body armor technology that uses specially-designed liquid to protect against bullets, according to Reuters.
Unlike Newtonian liquids such as water, the Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF) hardens on impact from a projectile, the report says, offering protection from bullets.
The technology has already been touted as a potential replacement for Kevlar in body armor.
Reuters says that the exact composition of the fluid is known only to Poland’s Institute of Security Technologies, known as Moratex, and inventors at the Military Institute of Armament Technology in Warsaw.
Popular Science notes that, with STF (also known as ooblek), a bullet’s force is absorbed by the liquid, and then dissipated outwards through the fluid. STF, which has been described as “bulletproof custard,” consists of hard nanoparticles suspended in a liquid that turns rigid when struck by a projectile.
The Polish scientists are not the first to work in this space – defense giant BAE Systems has worked on body armor that combines STF and Kevlar, according to Popular Science, while the U.S. Army Research Lab has conducted liquid body armor research with the University of Delaware.
This is nothing new. I’ve heard about this many years ago, as well as the bulletproof vests made from spider silk that were also going to be “impenetrable”.
I think it’s more of the “resistance is futile” propaganda theme or they wouldn’t be so worried about disarming us, and these “new developments” that have been around for years would already have been perfected.
“Your silly little bullets are obsolete against our super-duper body armor, but we’re frantically doing everything we possibly can to take your guns because they pose no threat whatsoever.”
150 grains of lead, moving at 2800 feet per second, is NOT going to be stopped by anyone’s new liquid body armor.
Wonder how it would fare against a flamethrower.
This sounds like that strange liquid body armor that Kurt Russel’s character used in the new movie, “Furious 7”. Wouldn’t be surprised if they were advertising for that in the movie, like movies do with everything else these days.