Here's the thing:
We have not had armor proof against rifle rounds since...well, since we've had rifles. This has meant that personal armor, in a general trend, has been disappearing from the battlefield since the 1500s. Now, we've recently had limited success with ceramics that changes this trend, but this if it works as advertised could potentially reverse this. Moreover, weapons designers will have to figure out the best way to defeat this new development. Is small/light (5.56 NATO/5.45 Russian) the best way, or is something more powerful (6.8 SPC or, God forbid, 7.62 NATO) the way to go, or will it be something else entirely?
This could be freakin HUGE in the development of small arms. Think total paradigm shift. All weapons development in the past century has been predicated upon the idea that you can do more with less energy sent downrange. This completely undoes that. IF it actually does what it is currently thought capable of doing.
Mike
We have not had armor proof against rifle rounds since...well, since we've had rifles. This has meant that personal armor, in a general trend, has been disappearing from the battlefield since the 1500s. Now, we've recently had limited success with ceramics that changes this trend, but this if it works as advertised could potentially reverse this. Moreover, weapons designers will have to figure out the best way to defeat this new development. Is small/light (5.56 NATO/5.45 Russian) the best way, or is something more powerful (6.8 SPC or, God forbid, 7.62 NATO) the way to go, or will it be something else entirely?
This could be freakin HUGE in the development of small arms. Think total paradigm shift. All weapons development in the past century has been predicated upon the idea that you can do more with less energy sent downrange. This completely undoes that. IF it actually does what it is currently thought capable of doing.
Mike