It’s a form of ablative armor. The laser blast vaporizes and explodes the clamshell which crucially sits away from the body glove. It will burn the wearer and knock them out on military grade weapons fire, but does improve survivability considerably. Much like modern military body armor.
I can’t do video content as a means of delivering information. The linear, non indexed, “at the speed of speech” means of delivery wrapped on either side by waffle does my head in…
Great sciencey explanation: https://youtu.be/1r69YZ6YlZw?si=I7YN__toAnAE-f-S
Care to summarise for those of us that can’t sit through a 10 minute video?
In short, the armor is designed to be cheap, light and imposing. It protects them from the environment but not a direct hit from a weapon.
Thanks :)
It’s a form of ablative armor. The laser blast vaporizes and explodes the clamshell which crucially sits away from the body glove. It will burn the wearer and knock them out on military grade weapons fire, but does improve survivability considerably. Much like modern military body armor.
Maybe you should lay off tik tok for a bit
I can’t do video content as a means of delivering information. The linear, non indexed, “at the speed of speech” means of delivery wrapped on either side by waffle does my head in…
Damn, that’s some nice flow.
That guy has the worst presentation.