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Re:Metal foam obliterates bullets by rmelly on Sunday April 10, 2016 @08:29AM (#11465878)
Dragon Skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Skin) claimed to withstand multiple hits without loss of performance, although there was some controversy around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYaSRIbPWkM&nohtml5=False

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Re:Metal foam obliterates bullets by mlhaufe on Sunday April 10, 2016 @05:20PM (#11468219)
Given that it weighed ~50 pounds and failed in a variety of environmental conditions, it's no surprise it wasn't adopted.

[1] <https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Dragon-Skin-armor-rejected-by-...

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Re:Metal foam obliterates bullets by hga on Sunday April 10, 2016 @06:03PM (#11468390)
Problem is, US Army procurement is sufficiently corrupt you can't trust testing of any physical item you hand to them, this goes back at least to the '50s when they caused the AR-10 to fail by replacing screws with wire springs....

That said, the design is obviously way too heavy without anyone even needing to weigh it.

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