New armor

[jimboblordofeskimos]

Little, add. As well as the sharksuit, the biggest use of chain mail these days is by butchers and slaughter men. They use either chain gloves or full chain arm protectors.

[vultures]

I'm liking the lotus leaf thing, and it could also maybe be used for water collection... Somehow...

What about that Geckskin stuff once we have actual Z-levels? I’d love to climb up walls and stuff… Like a gecko…

Well, my best guess that throughout the second half of the 21st century, nowadays quality clothing becomes common and nanomaterials take their place in the consumer’s market. In other words, you might not have enough money to roof your house with lotus leaf tiles or whatever, but you’ll want to own things like virtually unpenetrable blow-up boat and some shelter sheets based upon the manufacturing technology mentioned.

…and maybe some bird-like wings mutations once we learn to cata-fly.

[CarrierPrimoris]

I had an idea for a near-future type of armor. A vest made out of pockets of a kind of powered reactive gel. It’s less encumbering than a kevlar vest, but provides similar protection as long as you have a powered UPS. Without power, it’s alright protection, in a thick clothing/leather kind of way.

It’s never a bad thing to think of more uses for the UPS, as far as I’m concerned.

[vultures]

Learning from what NatGeo has to offer, and with artificial, industry-spawned carbon diamond structure, a century or so time from now the above would lead in the “indestructibles” market, while energy repelling and absorbing shields might be more of a military insight, only regarding energy-blast based weaponry.
So, Matrix-like bullet stop-picking could be enforced with a glove that aims a forcefield of sorts. My thoughts are more though with CataDDA kinetic-type bullet stopping and scraping off materials and technologies prior to the armageddon.

[KA101]

Why stop with kevlar. As of right now the DoD and DARPA are funding R&D (boy that’s a lot of acronyms) into synthetically produced spider silk, usually with transgenic organisms. Fifty years from now arachnoweave fiber vests should be a reality. At the very least high end military units could have them.

Yeah, and they’ve been in GURPS for a while so we should be able to whip up some stats. Support. Remind me and I’ll fetch my 3d/Revised basic book.

[John_Candlebury]

Why stop with kevlar. As of right now the DoD and DARPA are funding R&D (boy that’s a lot of acronyms) into synthetically produced spider silk, usually with transgenic organisms. Fifty years from now arachnoweave fiber vests should be a reality. At the very least high end military units could have them.

Not only would it make great armor, but it also will give us gigantic genetically engineered angry arachnids with bulletproof spider webs to kill after we clear all those boring labs.

[KA101]

[quote=“xibalba”]Why stop with kevlar. As of right now the DoD and DARPA are funding R&D (boy that’s a lot of acronyms) into synthetically produced spider silk, usually with transgenic organisms. Fifty years from now arachnoweave fiber vests should be a reality. At the very least high end military units could have them.

Not only would it make great armor, but it also will give us gigantic genetically engineered angry arachnids with bulletproof spider webs to kill after we clear all those boring labs.[/quote]

Or being able to harvest Web’d tiles and weave one’s own, perhaps with Lab machinery?

[Sheb]

Spider silk is though, but it’s also fairly elastic. I’m not sure it’d stop the bullet rather than put a layer of silk around it before it perfore you.

[keldoclock]

Thats how Kevlar and similar fiber-based armor systems work- they “catch” the projectile, spreading the impact over a wider area and reducing the force from enough to go through you to a welt or bruise. That’s why they only work on weaker rounds- something like 5.56 FMJ would just cut right through it. For this reason the military and SWAT units favor “hard” armor- ceramic plates inside Kevlar plate carriers. These shatter when bullets hit them, dispersing the force and usually deflecting the bullet.

[Sheb]

Yeah, but spider silk is more elastic than Kevlar. Toughness is defined as the total energy you need to break a strand. Spider sil is tough because it elongate a lot before breaking, as such you need a lot of energy to break it. So yeah, your spider silk bulletproof vest won’t let any bulet go through, but it’ll bend around them until bullet and vest are both stuck somewhere in your precious, delicates, internal organs.

[Disconected]

What about space suits?

[system]

What about space suits?

Shit, dude, you just deserved a high-five from me. Also, it should be very rare loot in the craters.

Then we also need clown suit, aerospace engineering rig and stun batons. And air canisters.

[Disconected]

[quote=“Disconected, post:29, topic:2713”]What about space suits?

Shit, dude, you just deserved a high-five from me. Also, it should be very rare loot in the craters.

Then we also need clown suit, aerospace engineering rig and stun batons. And air canisters.

And red security jumpsuits.

[system]

And red security jumpsuits.

More like shit-curity

[Disconected]

And Harm-batons.

[system]

Ok, whatever, enough SS13

If we’re going to add a spacesuit then it should have very high environmental defense and also possibility to use air from the canisters for full protection from all that shit.

[John_Candlebury]

You know what would be cool?

Hazmat Suit+ Scrap metal+ Hammer+ Alcohol = Armored Hazmat Suit

[FunsizeNinja123]

Why the alcohol?

[system]

Why the alcohol?

Because you need to disinfect it… or maybe because no one would think about armoring hazmat suit in normal state

[FunsizeNinja123]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.