Cosplayers looking for an easy way to create foam armor, may be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign introducing light and affordable costume Scaillemaille armor that can be customized to suit ...

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 ...

Foam body armor? Even armor-piercing bullets cannot get through this foam. And the foam doesn’t just stop bullets. It destroys them…this foam decimates bullets into dust. North Carolina State ...

Last year we saw researchers adapt foam metals to stop various forms of radiation in their tracks, ... Lightweight metal foam turns armor-piercing bullets into dust By Nick Lavars. April 11, 2016 ...

Upon impact, the layer of composite metal foam was able to absorb up to 75 percent of the energy of the ball rounds, and up to 78 percent for the armor-piercing rounds, as it crumpled.

A professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University has been developing a bullet-resistant metal foam for years. She and her team produced a thin armor that ...

It’s called Composite Metal Foam, or CMF — a metal structure filled with porous gas bubbles that decrease its density and weight drastically, but keep much of the original metal’s strength.

A new material might be strong enough to render even an armor-piercing bullet harmless. Researchers at North Carolina State University say they’ve developed a composite metal foam that would ...

For context, the National Institute of Justice standard allows up to 44 millimeters indentation in the back of a piece of armor. As you can see in the video, the bullet shatters when it hits the foam.