Comments on: Bulletproof Body Turns Any Auto into an Armored Car

By: Toronto

Toronto — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:05:47 +0000

Old 7.62mm NATO rounds were 150 to 175 grains, with a muzzle velocity of 825 m/s. They’d make short work of a DIY “Second Amendment Tank.”

Then again, a 7.62 cm round (”Three inch fifty”) would be even better, if you could get the tank commander to drive along the seashore.

By: JMyint

JMyint — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:13:43 +0000

Hmmm… A 225 Grain .338 copper jacketed bullet traveling at 848m/s would not penetrate a 1/2 inch of mild steel.
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/22ndI.....preece.pdf

So I would say that this would provide the crew with reasonable protection from small arms fire and shell fragments.

For comparison an M1 Garand 150 Grain .30-06 muzzle velocity 585m/s, Arisaka Type99 181 Grain 7.7mm muzzle velocity 731m/s, Lee-Enfield No.3 Mk.1 174 Grain .303 682m/s.

And modern weapons M16 62 Grain 5.56mm at 853m/s, AK47 123 grain at 700m/s.

By: brad

brad — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:08:05 +0000

yeah bullets could go through that like a knife through butter.

heres a tip

se one inch steel, and use HARDENED carbon fiber.

Than Ill consider it an armored car

By: Daily Clerks

Daily Clerks — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:19:26 +0000

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By: Jalopnik

Jalopnik — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:00:15 +0000

In This Case, ‘Model A’ Stands for Armored…

From the “A Tank in Every Driveway and two Chickens in Every Pot” school of thought comes this not-necessarily-brilliant idea. But we do like that they’re called “minute man tanks”…we could totally see Watt driving one of these around……

By: Stannous

Stannous — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:30:24 +0000

Sure, add a couple of thousand pounds to a car’s suspension, make it almost impossible to see out, and then take it into hostile territory…