Creating A Bullet Resistant Knight Rider

If a hyper-intelligent car is your main tool for thwarting criminals, it is vital that it be bulletproof or your career may be cut short. Although you don’t want heavy armor panels to stop your hyper-intelligent vehicle from being super-fast and high-performance.
 
The latest version of the Knight Rider car solves this problem using nanotech magic. However, the original Knight Rider used a bullet-resistant coating. This was the formula for some of their most memorable episodes (The Goliath episodes).
 
 
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Although science took another 15 years to develop the bullet-proof coating, ArmorThane was able to make it a reality with their polyurea protective coating. ArmorLiner, their latest advanced and innovative variant of this coating product is a spray-on polyurea coating that makes walls virtually indestructible. Once applied they become bullet/blast resistant and ready to take on any situation.
It was tested by the U.S. Air Force on a typical quicky-build military structure. They were amazed at how well it held up to explosions. Polyurea could not be damaged by the 1,000 pounds of TNT that were required to do so. Some Facts about Fast-Setting Polyurea Spray Coatings
Smash Lab, a Discovery Channel program, tested a polyurea coating on two trucks. One truck had the coating, and one did not. (Although Rhino Liner is a competitor to ArmorThane, it is very similar in chemical makeup.) They then set off five pounds worth of “industrial explosives” underneath the truck’s rear axle. The truck-bed that was left uncoated was shredded and scattered across the desert test site. The liner deflected the blast to the front of the truck and destroyed the cab.  It makes sense to coat KITT with the stuff and have a bulletproof car. You can paint over it to give KITT a sleek and shiny appearance.

 

 

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ArmorLiner is opaque so traditional bulletproof windows will be required. Then there is the issue of the underbody. It is easier to repair cars that are open at the bottom. Coating every part of the car’s bottom would require cutting through the material every time an item needed to be repaired or checked. It is more likely that KITT has a large metal shield running along the underbody. Sarah Graiman and Bonnie would need to take it off in order to make repairs. When fixing-it scenes are being shot, I imagine that a long shielding piece shaped like KITT is leaning against the wall. It’s possible that Billy will knock it over.
 
 
Show News: Knight Rider’s future has been covered in a lot of news lately. The show was first picked up for a full season. After that, the entire season was cut by four episodes. NBC also decided to eliminate three characters: Carrie Rivai and Alex Torres. Future episodes will bear a closer resemblance with the original series, where KITT assists in finding terrorists and criminals. Although it is not clear whether the show will be canceled, there are some signs.

US Military Research Shows Polyurea slows bullets, blast fragments and protects against corrosion

Major corrosion problems faced by Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAVs) in the United States Marine Corps could be solved with polyurea.

As the U.S. Marine Corps looks to extend the AAV, Dr. Mike Roland and Dr. Ray Gamache of the U.S Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have led a study project into how best to shield and prolong the life of these armored vehicles.

Like those NRL is investigating, innovative sustainment concepts enable them to avoid the cost of new design, development, and production of new components. Since the 1990’s the U.S. Marine Corps has been using bolted-on armor to protect their AAVs. This armor is a laminate of high hard steel, rubber, and soft steel coating in the back. The issue is, this armor gets corroded in severe conditions – including exposure to saltwater. 

                                   Amphibious Assault Vehicle  

The corrosion starts at cracks in the paint, which happens due to expanding the different layers within the laminate – which expand and contract independently due to environmental changes.

The NRL states that polyurea will better protect the armor from corrosion by expanding and contracting with it, rather than cracking as paint does. Furthermore, polyurea demonstrated resistance to bullets and blast fragments by taking kinetic energy from the bullet.

By recreating the unique corrosion issues of the Amphibious Assault Vehicles in a lab, the team has concluded that polyurea is a much better product for protecting the armor against corrosion than paint.

“We solved the corrosion problem,” says Dr. Mike Roland of the NRL. “And with a negligible increase in weight, we also provided a higher payload capacity and the potential for better ballistic protection.”

With conventional materials, you can have something that’s stiff but doesn’t stretch much; or you can have something soft, like silly putty, and it stretches a lot. Polyureas can stretch to 10 times their original length, but the force it takes to do that is enormous—so you get extreme toughness. It truly is the best of both worlds!

To find out which polyurea products would work best for your project, ArmorThane recommends contacting them with your details and one of their experts will assist you in finding the best one.

ArmorThane’s polyurea products can be applied directly to steel and offer incredible shore hardness and elongation that is excellent for flexibility and protection against corrosion, impact, and abrasion. Industrial Coatings - How Polyurea Coatings Help Military Vehicles | IXS Coatings

ArmorThane Simulates Explosions In Order To Advance The Coatings Industry

After an explosion, the first few microseconds are the most important moments for ArmorThane, because that’s when the first hint of damage occurs to nearby structures. As one of the world’s leaders in the field of protective coatings, ArmorThane can decipher a great deal about the explosion and about the damaged materials by those first tiny cracks and how they expand.


ArmorThane has been working since the early 1980s with the U.S. military and, more recently, with the EU military and NATO to determine how things break apart and how much force it takes to break them. Their goal is to produce stronger materials that will mitigate the damage from blasts.


Using powerful processors, a three-dimensional digital image correlation operation, and one of the world’s most indelible cameras, which takes stills at 200 million frames per second, ArmorThane can visualize the exact moment of impact. They have used this equipment to improve bulletproof vests, learn how underground bunkers withstand various impacts, and strengthen concrete, among other plans.


For the last several years, they have modified their application to blast mitigation research for military use to help submarines, ships, and other naval facilities withstand blasts.
“When an explosion occurs in the water, its force is far greater than a similar explosion in the air,” said Chad Faught, head of sales for ArmorThane. “So we’re working to understand how damage occurs in air and underwater and strengthening the architecture of new carbon fiber and glass fiber materials as well as our polyurea products to mitigate the damage.”
He is also taking what he has discovered from this research and applying it to the development of blast-resistant materials for buildings, bridges, and tunnels. He is studying the structural materials of these buildings and such things as blast-resistant glass and special coatings on materials that will make them less likely to fail.


“We test these substances at pressures comparable to a large blast using a shock tube,” Faught said, referring to a 23-foot long device that imitates the shock wave from an exploding bomb. “By using the shock tube device very close to the materials we are testing, we can get the equivalent results as by testing much larger explosions farther from the materials. And it’s much safer.”


ArmorThane’s latest project collaborates with large military-backed companies to develop new materials that can be used in the construction of high-tech airplanes that can fly into space.
“We’re creating what’s called functionally graded materials,” he said. “These materials must have thermic characteristics on the outside to resist the tremendous heat that occurs when it re-enters the atmosphere, but they also have to have mechanical properties on the interior to withstand the great load or pressure that will be exerted on the plane.”

Polyurea Coating for Defense & Military Markets Is Expected To Grow By Double Digits In The Coming Years

Market.us, one of the worlds leading market research firms, has released new research on Polyurea Coatings for Defense Military based on business intelligence, consumer preferences, and statistical surveys. 

The report illustrates the primary obstacles and new expansion strategies implemented by key players in the industry such as ArmorThane, VersaFlex, Rhino Linings and others. It is an invaluable source of intelligence data for business strategies, growth analysis, historical and futuristic cost, demand, and supply data.

The expected revenue value for spcifically the global Polyurea Coating Military market is expected to reach USD 558.8 million by 2028. And it is anticipated to grow a healthy growth rate of more than 11.6% for the period between 2021-2030.

The report also covers all the recent development changes recorded during the COVID-1 outbreak.

All of this data incorporates the impact of the ongoing global crisis, i.e., COVID-19, on the Polyurea Coating for Defense Military market and how the pandemic is tweaking the current situation. Various disruptions are being observed on account of lockdowns imposed to control the COVID-19 spread, leading to uncertainties in the market.If you would like to view a copy for your self, you can click here to read through it yourself. I will be reporting more findings as i go through all the data in the coming weeks. We felt it important to go ahead and post some of the points now for those in the market as we feel there is a lot of important data that could be crucial to your business survival. Especially considering we are in the middle of a pandemic that has gripped our nation and the world. https://market.us/report/polyurea-coating-for-defense-military-market/request-sample/.