A revolutionary new material called Composite Metal Foam, or CMF, can pulverize enemy rounds and could even be used as an armor to protect tanks and other combat vehicles. Believe it or not, this ...
Editor’s note: This column has been updated to provide attribution to original sources. Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University in ...
Slime, foam, glass — not the typical ways to stopping bullets cold, yet all three at the base of the most outstanding body armor breakthroughs of the year. In 2017, the U.S. military pioneered the use ...