The future of bullet stopping armor?

[GunnyGene]

Materials tech has come a long way in the last few years. This 3d printed tubulane polymer looks very promising.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/11/21/rice-university-3d-printed-polymer-tubulanes-stop-bullets/

Test cubes:

 

[Watchman]

Looks promising, if the velocity figures given were accurate and the projectiles were substantial.

Lighter weight armor has tons of possibilities...

 

[DeletedMember275]

Interesting, but I'd sure like to have some specifics as to type(s) of projectiles. Also take into account that any projo intended as anti-armor or anti-tank is going to be Depleted Uranium.

 

[Mega Twin]

How are they getting 19000 fps out of a projectile?

 

[gramps]

How are they getting 19000 fps out of a projectile?

Air pressure. At Arnold Engineering here in Tn, is an museum showing what a frozen pea at 25,000 FPS will do to a 1/4 inch plate steel utilizing air pressure. The pea blew an quarter sized hole in it!!!
gramps

 

[GunnyGene]

How are they getting 19000 fps out of a projectile?

Many high energy labs have the equipment to fire hyper velocity projectiles. 19,000fps = 17.47mach.

ETA: Here's one such lab:

https://udayton.edu/udri/capabilities/hypersonics/hypervelocity_impact_testing.php

Pictured below are UDRI's two-stage light-gas gun ranges for hypervelocity testing. The larger two-stage, light-gas gun can be configured into a 75/30/7.62 mm three stage, light-gas gun (the world's fastest) that can launch spherical projectiles to over 10 km/sec.

10km/sec=32,808fps.