OT: Rhino Linings - tougher than you think

[Black_Knyght]

I saw a demonstration of this, and it took my breath away. This stuff is incredibly tough, and really a damn good idea. It was stunningly effective. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

U.S. Military Goes to War With the #1 Sprayed-on Liner, Rhino Linings (http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/06/16/011567.html)

Bedliner companies start getting defensive (http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-06-06-bedliners-usat_x.htm)

[Renegade 13]

Sounds like some tough stuff.

[rdouglass]

I once had a truck with that stuff in the bed liner and a cast iron tub fell from at least 3 feet above it and hit the bed. The truck bed was quite dented but the rhino liner was no worse for it. Still was waterproof, solvent proof, etc.

It really is incredible stuff and with a sprayed on application, they can put it almost anywhere.

[Santiago]

Ny brother has this in his truck bed, its really good. I seen an article a few weeks ago that the manufacturers are testing it on using it for armor ie humvees as it appears to drastically reduce shrapnel (pun unintended lol) damage

[Kamog]

They should make shoes out of the stuff. My shoes keep wearing out and it would nice to have shoes that last more than a few months.

[Renegade 13]

Try some leather steel-toed boots. They never wear out...and make a great defensive weapon. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Black_Knyght]

In the demonstration I was invited to attend, they placed a car LOADED with explosives equidistant between two small cinder block buildings, roughly 20 feet away from each. Of course, one was sprayed and one wasn't. They detonated the explosives, COMPLETELY obliterating the vehicle and leaving a respectable crater. The sprayed building bulged inward, and the bricks lost their mortar, but it remained intact!!!. The opposite building was nothing more that small fragments of cinder block, steel, and wood.

Having been to the first Iraqi conflict, and having seen the effects of IED's with my own eyes, I gotta tell ya I was DAMNED impressed !!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...This is how you know you're in the future - Spray-on armor...

[Black_Knyght]

In the second half of this demonstration, they fired an AK-47 assault rifle at a tanker truck filled with water, but sprayed outside by the Lining material. A ten second burst, all impacting and penetrating.

NOT ONE DAMN LEAK !!!

This stuff even sealed itself over the bullet holes...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Sure this isn't a hoax?

[Black_Knyght]

Absolutely !!! I saw it with my OWN eyes. We were invited to examine the tanker, both BEFORE and AFTER. I can tell you that it WAS a standard Tanker, and after it was shot to hell, it really didn't leak either.

[rdouglass]

I didn't see the demo but I know the stuff that they spray in the back of trucks readily available to anyone is incredibly tough stuff. I'm pretty confident that with the mix of a few carbon fibers and / or other high tensile-strength materials, it could potentially do something like that.

That's not a big leap at all for me. Hey they make self-sealing tires and explosion-resistant gas tanks so why not?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I want videos. Untill then, I'll put it in the 'maybe' collumn.

[Black_Knyght]

As you wish....


Rhino Lining video 01 (http://usatoday.feedroom.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a3f1beb18:10c03b3a413:5d54&fr_st ory=285958dd8456fe40f3af44ee949b22af643439ea&st=11 51210463764&mp=FLV&cpf=false&fr=062406_124406_3f1b eb18x10c03b3a413x5d55&rdm=606821.012928381)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Only saw it once, didn't quite catch what happened and now can't see it again.

[Puke]

interesting. have to talk to some other bikers about it, but this might be just the thing to add to my gortex/kevlar pants and jacket.

edit: of course, then my armor wouldnt be as breathable as it is now...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ok, I caught it this time.

It didn't stop the bullet. Sure, it sealed the hole, but it didn't stop the bullet.

[Black_Knyght]

In the case of the tanker, it was never INTENDED to stop bullets or shrapnel, but to simply prevent leakages that might otherwise prove devastating in a combat environment.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That's a point.

[ToddT]

Hmm, if i remember right small designed to be bullet proof don't real protect very well against explosions, and vehicles design to withstand/survive explosions usually aren't very effective against bullets(the potent ammunition). I do not remember the specifics but in either case the rhino material would help. As the demonstration
with those cinder block buildings illustrates. The Standing building may not be safe occupy afterwards, but if you were in it in such a situation you have the opportunity to make it out in one piece, versus being buried(possibly alive) in the ruble of the other.