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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6852)	4/29/2004 4:14:26 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Hawk...your posts to canyondweller today on FADG are exactly right on, enjoyed reading your thoughts...keep up the great work... regards...Chuck

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6852)	4/29/2004 9:34:20 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

People have been working on thixotropic fluids for armor for at least 30 years. Never heard of it for personal armor (from memoty, we needed at least 10 inch thickness to allow for the thixotropic properties to develop). An arrow is not a bullet going at 3000 m/second and a millisecond is too much time for the fluid stiffening to develop. In any event, in the case of armor for tanks, the ideas was dropped in favor of "reactive armor" some good 20/25 years ago.