John Kettler Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 n/t [ November 20, 2007, 01:09 AM: Message edited by: John Kettler ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyStrike Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 didn't catch it, anything interesting? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 LuckyStrike, It was a repeat of a previous segment on DragonSkin, and this time, I got to see the whole thing. The ex-SEAL host put two each of 9mm, 5.56 and 7.62 into the front from maybe twenty feet, if that, with no penetrations of even the armor array, let alone the dummy. This was followed by a slew of the same mix into the back. Again, no penetrations. Impressive as the two prior sequences were, they paled to nothingness when a standard U.S. frag grenade was detonated in direct contact with the front of the armor while the torso dummy was prone on the ground, simulating a dive onto a grenade to save a soldier's buddies. Though the armor array was blown loose from the inner liner by the blast, there were no penetrations of the inner liner at all. According to the DragonSkin inventor, this test was a true first, having never been attempted before. The THAAD (Theater High Altitude Air Defense) missile live fire test was interesting, but I loved the Alford Technologies special car bomb neutralizer which combines shaped charge tech and the incompressibility of water to literally jet a car bomb out of a trunk, ripping its detonators off before they can fire, and leaving the explosives (represented in the test by 2 x 155mm and 3 x 105mm inert shells) out in the open where EOD can deal with them easily and safely. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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