New Liquid Body Armour Is Finally Ready For The Frontline

Scientists have developed a non-Newtonian liquid so effective that when implemented into body armour, can not only stop a bullet, but prevent the shockwave from causing potentially lethal internal damage.
Called a Shear-Thickening-Fluid (STF), the liquid was developed by Polish company Moratex and its inventors at the Military Institute of Armament Technology in Warsaw.
Non-Newtonian liquids certainly aren't new, however the Polish company believes that it has finally perfected the composition needed to create a military-ready product.
Deputy Director for Research at the Moratex institute, Marcin Struszczyk spoke to Reuters about the announcement saying: "We needed to find, design a liquid that functions both with projectiles hitting at the velocity of 450 meters per second and higher. We have succeeded,"
One of the biggest problems about current body armour is that while it can stop the bullet, the shockwave can still cause potentially lethal damage to the internal organs. Struszczyk and his team believe they have solved this problem.
"Thanks to the properties of the liquid, thanks to the proper formation of the insert, we eliminate one hundred percent of this threat because we have reduced the deflection from four centimeters to one centimeter."


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I have a liquid body armour. It's called whiskey.
When I drink that I become invincible.

eddie wrote:I have a liquid body armour. It's called whiskey.
When I drink that I become invincible.

But you also have to wear your Cardinal Chunder hat too, do you not?

AH yes! I forgot about the hat!

I WONDER how long it will take for this substance to eventually filter down into sporting equipment ?

THERE are dozens of applications where such a "Shear-Thickening-Fluid (STF)" could be incorporated into protective and defensive gear; to wit, for example :

Bash Hats ~ bicycling, horseriding, motorcycling and other motor sports, skiing and snowboarding, rafting, kayaking and canoeing, climbing and caving, baseball and cricket;
Body armour for contact sports ~ boxing, martial arts, football, motocross, downhill mountainbkng;
Boxing gloves and riding and sparring mitts;
Even running shoes for hard surfaces like concrete and asphalt.

ALL of these activities (and, also including the activities of 'First Responders' and Emergency services as well..) could do with that shock reduction benefit added to their protective equipment.