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War Games: Looking to Nature for Next-Gen Body Armor

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    Is Spiderman body armor finally within reach?

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And now we going to I guess.

Every walls.

With Allison Barrie was a defense specialist and they graduate I believe but to my favorite places Cambridge University doing -- college yes.

I'm very -- I -- I'm hugely intimidate an already currently.

Never -- wouldn't talking a body armor.

I'll which has obviously been an ongoing.

Issue over the last a decade of -- we've friendly full the heavy cumbersome -- -- -- the our troops have had to where -- in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Changes so yeah.

How yes -- -- some of those I I lost twenty pounds which was actually quite useful.

Yeah I heard another.

But there's there's hope on the horizon that the may -- some new very lightweight bony element made out of something -- people wouldn't really single.

82 it's in many critics saying -- you as you probably know since you've had been subjected to on this unwieldy cumbersome body armor.

The hunt is beyond me for quite some time decades really trying to find Justin -- -- make ultra -- ultra strong far better protected body armor and the funny thing is that spider silk nature doesn't better than anything we've been out -- I did so -- fighters and Susan would Jack Ryan candidate advisory wanna be that's the strongest at the silken.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bat that's really good question.

Detonating on Charlotte's web the when little spider come running and that's Jack went a little bit that they draw as a little bump day you know sort of kind of like and the sad thing really strongest it's extremely strong how does that look at it because you -- up -- -- -- -- -- And I'm sorry.

Well that a candidate or spinning line -- that out not -- -- you're presented but from what I understand from the scientist or once -- the widely this Charlotte's web using the losers straightaway traditional ones there -- -- is an incredible ability to absorb energy which is.

As you know what you want with body -- you want that ability.

But you might not know is that capitalize offensively into Wilkinson sword into meeting fabrics and just simplifying it looks kind of like the next flick of football that are -- yet.

Where it absorbs energy so the impact is spread out throughout the net as opposed to just look like right -- -- It's easy for if you're if you're thinking about a a bullet hitting -- it's easy to think you just need something we'll stop it like a great big steel plate.

More as we used as we used to well I was listening they'll ceramic plates which were rarely.

-- Well but -- -- so -- -- but it's energy it's about -- is the better way of dealing with -- -- and -- -- -- -- places linked up with -- -- for explosives trying to reject the same degree of force as it was receiving cores as you wanna spend as much as possible and it's really cool but this letter -- stuff.

Is that it's five times stronger than steel.

Please do not and three times more elastic and -- which is that and I just inflexibility were just.

So how long until this gets to the troops in the field where are we in the development stage -- not far enough and it's it's really been freshens me I try to keep a close eye on the body -- thing because -- both suffered through it but -- our war fighters are.

And also our law enforcement -- and when it once this is -- registered -- Johnson was ominous looking into law enforcement applications and you work on Hamas to decide to.

-- that if your fourteen times more likely.

She died from a gunshot wounds if you haven't learned enough body armor in the magazines and law enforcement as we both know another overtime until that a school -- people tend to take it off.

Right it's just make that choice not to Wear it begins it's just so cumbersome it's just so happy.

And it reduces your agility or speak to some stability.

There consensus it was a risk tradeoff and even if you're wearing might not armor up as much as it probably should be the degree of protection risk that you need in that situation requirements.

I'm still live up to -- the slightly stuff holds out and it's I guess who they've tracks -- -- it's -- expired so.

Iran doesn't quite a classic British didn't want case goes no that's -- the lack -- good to get -- -- yet.

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