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yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts) Tue Feb 21, 2017, 01:55 PM Feb 2017

BYU makes origami-inspired bulletproof shield

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BYU makes origami-inspired bulletproof shield (Original Post) yuiyoshida Feb 2017 OP

Of course tank armor has been using diagonal shapes for decades. Crowman2009 Feb 2017 #1

Crowman2009

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1. Of course tank armor has been using diagonal shapes for decades.

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Tue Feb 21, 2017, 02:48 PM

Feb 2017

Sort of reminds me how people were fascinated by the TOW missile. But the wire-guided technology was used in WW2 for German air-to-air missiles, which failed because the wire kept getting sucked into the jet intake of the Me 262.

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