Where to buy Bulletproof material...

[dfen5]

Reality. Mugger with gun or knife partly concealed. Nice briefcase..


Oh and https://youtu.be/2pMxjgrUE90 for the lolz

Edited by dfen5 on Wednesday 29th March 22:23

[Evanivitch]

OP - How do you plan for this GP tracker to work? How is it transmitting the location?

Don't feel like you have to go down the Kevlar route, other aramid fibres exist.

[Olivero]

Evanivitch said:

OP - How do you plan for this GP tracker to work? How is it transmitting the location?

Don't feel like you have to go down the Kevlar route, other aramid fibres exist.

The GPS will be an off the shelf product with a tracking service. Just a matter of finding one that is light and small enough.

What fiber do you recommend?

[Evanivitch]

Olivero said:

Evanivitch said:

OP - How do you plan for this GP tracker to work? How is it transmitting the location?

Don't feel like you have to go down the Kevlar route, other aramid fibres exist.

The GPS will be an off the shelf product with a tracking service. Just a matter of finding one that is light and small enough.

What fiber do you recommend?

So you're going to use the cellular network? Just means paying for a SIM for little gain.

Won't specify anything in particular. Just that Kevlar isn't considered value for money in the market these days. I imagine you're more limited by what you can get your hands on, but US market is no doubt different.

[Benni]

Tyvek envelopes are almost indestrucable, some layers of that white stuff would be very light, flexible and not "on the list" ?

I am no expert about this but heard that the repel blades quite well, don´t know abut flying lead though.

[GC8]

citizensm1th said:

GC8 said:

citizensm1th said:

ceramics are the way to go, either those or according to british army folk law a wet mod issue blanket could stop 9mm para back in the late 70's early 80's

but then we had just bought a whole shed load of shonky cheep ammo from india

Both bks! & true...

A wet blanket cannot hope to stop a hot 2CZ round, a wet general issue (GI) blanket could be used as a backstop for a .45ACP fired out of a 1911 pistol and I have seen this demonstrated. The .45 bullet is big and slow, whereas the .356 9mm bullet is light and fast.

I know its bks thats why its call british army folk law YOU HUMOURLESS TWONK

the only part thats true is we did buy some really shonky ammo from india it was so weak a Stirling sub machine gun struggled to cycle using it

Stirlings were designed to use 2Z, which is a pretty feisty load. When using a weak load in an open bolt SMG it is more common for it to fire out of control.

Also, stop the silly name calling: are you twelve years old?

[conkerman]

mybrainhurts said:

Olivero said:

sc0tt said:

Explanation required

I live in Brooklyn at the moment in a nice brownstone. Someone got shot and killed right outside in the street last year with what was most likely a 9mm. Happened at night and didn't hear a thing!
Been shot at when I lived in Bueons Airies by drug dealers, but not in a serious way. More of a warning shot than anything else.

Not planning to go to any war zones and my job is not connected with security in any way.

I am designing a leather briefcase that has some tech built in. World-wide geolocation tracking, RFID blocking, smartphone mobile charging, rapid backup and a few more things. With this in mind adding really basic bullet-resistant material might be a good plan.

If that works, you could expand into underpants.

5OHM already has.

[bigandclever]

Olivero said:

Plate Options

Trying to decide between a hard or soft plate. The hard plates is heavier but less bulky.
There is no need for the plated to be hard and would be replaced if struck.

I would imagine that replaceability is a moot point ... if the plate is "struck" there's going to be a bloody great hole in at least one side of the bag, so surely the bag goes in the bin?

[Astacus]

surely you'd want it patched as a badge of honour.

[citizensm1th]

GC8 said:

citizensm1th said:

GC8 said:

citizensm1th said:

ceramics are the way to go, either those or according to british army folk law a wet mod issue blanket could stop 9mm para back in the late 70's early 80's

but then we had just bought a whole shed load of shonky cheep ammo from india

Both bks! & true...

A wet blanket cannot hope to stop a hot 2CZ round, a wet general issue (GI) blanket could be used as a backstop for a .45ACP fired out of a 1911 pistol and I have seen this demonstrated. The .45 bullet is big and slow, whereas the .356 9mm bullet is light and fast.

I know its bks thats why its call british army folk law YOU HUMOURLESS TWONK

the only part thats true is we did buy some really shonky ammo from india it was so weak a Stirling sub machine gun struggled to cycle using it

Stirlings were designed to use 2Z, which is a pretty feisty load. When using a weak load in an open bolt SMG it is more common for it to fire out of control.

Also, stop the silly name calling: are you twelve years old?

the one i saw fired did just about manage to engage the sear, just

and you really are humourless i bet you were a hoot in the naafi

at or ato?

[Itsallicanafford]

jdw100 said:

A bag won't help you.

When 50OHMustache and I were running covert ops behind enemy lines in twenny oh two during Operation Desert Spider Strike Top Trump II we realised we needed light weight ballistic protection. Obviously bullets fired by the A-rabs weren't as powerful as as those blasted down range from our American (oh say can you see....) AR-19 'Freedom Givers' but we still needed protection as well as flexibility.

We assessed a number of potential solutions such as ---redacted --- and --redacted -- and even --redacted--!

In the end though the solution was simple - we become bullet proof ourselves. Each day for six months a team of the best boxers in our unit (Walrus Team 8) would pummel us all over our bodies non-stop for eight or more hours.

After being punched hard in the stomach over 1 million times my abs can now deflect most calibres (sorry calibers) up to and including .99 and no word of a lie I once saw 50OH take a direct hit to his cranium from an RPG and shrug it off.

My advice to you, OP, is to leave your nice brownstone and go to the nearest martial arts centre (sorry, center) and get them to beat you until bulletproof. That way you won't need no nancy-boy bag or a cowards-briefcase.

(note; no one has actually carried a briefcase since about 2005)

...Superb post

[Steve_W]

Celtic Dragon said:

What about using silk? It's light, when laminated in multiple layers become bullet proof

This is an overlooked post. Recently saw a test on a programme of a remake of the silk bulletproof vest that Franz Ferdinand had; it stopped a bullet from the same make of automatic that Gavrillo Princip used (1911 .45?) from close range.

Shame that a) FF wasn't wearing it, and b) he was shot in the neck!