+Kosta Milovanovic Thank you.

Idiot.

@@gvardiecky9507 how?

Are you making vids?

If he used A hardox steel / AR500 plate, it would work much better. Plow or bulldozer blade steel. Good work and explanation on his part.

Testing AR500 against hardened automotive steel like the frame of a truck would be interesting.

+BecauseVideos Thanks, I'll definitely produce more content, but not as frequently as other, bigger channels. Sadly, I have priorities, and studying is on the first place. I'll try to upload a new video every 3-4 weeks, then as the channel grows, so will the frequency of the uploads. Without degrading the quality, of course :)

+PrepTech Sounds good. It's not often channels start out with such quality videos from the start. Certainly intrigued as to how these ballistics will be improved. I see your channel growing, good luck.

Glad you liked it!

wouldn't it make more sense to have the ceramic on the outside? then uhmwpe, then fiberglass?

Thanks.

yes but the ´´point´´ of this project was to make it very affordable

@@guxsus13 it can even be more affordable using UHMWPE plastic instead of steel, using thicker ceramic plates to absorb more of the shock and using rubber in between the plates to absorb the impact and reduce spalling. Faster to make and possibly cheaper since fiberglass and getting good resin can be hard and pricey

@@oozly9291 yeah i agree with you there

@@guxsus13 you can get carbide from rods use in electric soldering carbonsilica rods soldering

In the case of civilization come to such warfare, ALL armored vehicles, especially surplus military vehicles would be instantly deemed illegal to own and you'd be a primary target

A good bypass of overly restrictive laws.

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thanks

Craposnap no problem.

+Kuddlesworth NA That wouldn't do much other than disarrange the composite structure. The resin must bond with the fiberglass and adding a layer of tin foil would prevent that.

+PrepTech perhaps aluminum powder with the resin?

+Tommy "Johny" Wiseau I was thinking on the same, but then I scrapped the idea. It would look good, but the resin does not bond chemically with the metal so it wouldn't be any stronger. But I have some epoxy left, I might test it.

+PrepTech I see. Perhaps finding thinner ceramic plates and then sandwiching them together. They might absorb more of the energy if there are layers of them.

Kuddlesworth NA The next, advanced panel will have multiple ceramic layers. Or even something stronger than ceramic :)

That is correct, but as I said I didn't have access to any of these special steel plates, so I turned to an alternative.

blogobre correct, but.....this is the Home Depot Hoplon.

You can learn a lot about composite amour and yeah ceramic is the way, Russian did that with their Cold War tanks and it was effective

What type of bullets? Can I know what it's made out of?

Nobody asked

also heard someone on another video saying you can increase the hardness by enriching the fiberglass resin with like 0.4% graphene

@Drikkerbadevand I'm not sure people have access to graphene easily without a commercial materials licence or without making it themselves. Plus that percentage is a strange one considering graphene is only strong in a single atom lattice sheet or layering those lattices extremely carefully hundreds or thousands of times with certain expensive adhesives that wont eat at it. Even though 0.4percent sounds low its actually allot of graphene considering it doesn't have much mass, is extremely thin etc and would be rather expensive. It is around 13-20 dollars for a single 10x10cm sheet and you'd need allot of sheets. Each sheet is around 35 microns thick and that's around 0.035mm thick, armour only works due to the material being layered and graphene armour would work the same way, thousands of layers just like kevlar so for a bare minimum you'd be paying 13,000 to protect 10cm of your body, realistically. Even if it's only a hundred or so layers needed it'd be bare minimum 1,300 per 10cm protected but with armour you tend to want to go thicker than the bare minimum since if it doesn't stop the object then it'll continue through whatever is behind it. Also as mentioned you'd need to price in the adhesive as armour usually works better when made into a composite of some sort and any specialist adhesive tends to be as expensive as it is hard to find since you need a chemical handling licence to even buy certain things in most places. It'll be interesting to see someone try it once the material is easier and cheaper to get ahold of. Borophene is easier to make on demand en masse as an alternative, more flexible and arguably stronger in some cases. The downside is it catalyses water to split it into oxygen or hydrogen so any adhesives you used couldn't have any moisture at all or you'd have bubbles, cracks or worse. Graphene is literally carbon so water, grease, salt etc, it wouldn't react well with any of those over time. I think kevlar mainly only reacts negatigely with radiation/sunlight noticably like nost fiberglass armours which makes it ideal for longer term applications.