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I'd try a single layer of ceramic stuff. As I know it, hard armour (aforementioned ceramic, metal plates etc.) provides more protection than soft armour (such as kevlar), but it's generally impractical for use on humans since it's clumsy and rigid. On an inanimate object, of course, that isn't really a problem.
Kevlar is basically just ultra-strong, glorified padding made of interlaced tethers that absorb the energy from a projectile in the same way that a safety net would absorb the inertia of a falling person. As well as preventing penetration, it's also designed to decrease the amount blunt trauma inflicted by the impact of a weapon, but it doesn't do the job efficiently enough to stop you from getting ugly-ass bruise or a even few broken ribs. So I don't know how much blunt trauma it would prevent on a non-squishy object such as a padlock. Would a padlock suffer more from the blunt trauma, because metal doesn't have the elasticity of skin to disperse the energy from the impact? Or would it suffer less, being that metal is, obviously, frickin hard?
Anyway, eh, I figure that the calibre of the bullets, plus the range and angle used whilst firing the weapon on the lock would figure in to it somewhere. Cusm's idea sounds nifty. |
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