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New liquid-based body armour not far from reality

Effective body armour has always been important for those in combat scenarios, whether they're knights of old or modern day soldiers, but it almost always comes at the cost of weight and manoeuvrability. Often times too, as effective as modern armour is, even if a projectile doesn't penetrate, its impact can still cause grievous wounds. That's why a newly created, non-newtonian liquid based body armour may be the new standard for the future.

In the above Reuters report, we see Polish firm Moritex showcasing the abilities of its relatively secret liquid. While we don't know what it's made of, the results of its strange properties are plane to see. When force is applied to it, it hardens, quickly losing viscosity when that force is no longer applied. This means that in the event of being hit by a bullet, it is able to take the impact and dissipate the force through the liquid, largely reducing the force felt by the wearer.

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This is either great bulletproofing technology, or the first Venom symbiote

Moritex's director claims that his company's technology should eliminate entirely, injuries related to non-penetrative damage from firearms, because it was able to reduce the “deflection from four centimetres to one centimetres.” Prototype vests using the new material have already been tested as capable of stopping a variety of projectile based weapons.

Vests using the new liquid will be going on sale soon we're told, though other uses may eventually be found, such as in car bumpers or motorway barriers.

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KitGuru Says: Although this does reduce the chance of us having mega-armoured Space Marine like super-soldiers in the future, perhaps a sleek, Crysis like bullet proof suit wouldn't be a bad plan either.

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9 comments

  1. can you link the source video please? It’s not playing for me (but perhaps only me).
    Cheers.

  2. The video is in flash format. Perhaps you don’t have the flash plugin? I can’t think of any other reason the flash video wouldn’t load as Chrome comes with it built-in.

  3. Bram Van den Steen

    Maybe he doesn’t have Chrome? :p

  4. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-poland-ballistic-liquid-idUSKBN0MT20D20150402

    After some deep finding, here is the source linked video.

  5. Possible, but then he’d run into YouTube not working on Firefox and page elements not loading on Safari. I think IE would need a separate flash download as well, which would also cause issues before coming to this article.

  6. The company name is Moratex, not Moritex

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  9. I use Chrome – I think it was just one of those times when my PC hadn’t had it’s morning coffee or perhaps I swore at it the night before and it got offended 😀