Bullet Resistant Vests? Pssshhhht....
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Topic: Bullet Resistant Vests? Pssshhhht....
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: Bullet Resistant Vests? Pssshhhht....
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:25pm
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Who needs those anymore:
From bears to bullets By Wade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator (Jan 11, 2007) The grizzly man is back, and this time he's ready to take on bullets and bombs. Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and U.S. soldiers in Iraq. He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour." Using the hard-learned lessons of his Project Grizzly experience -- a 20-year odyssey that included a National Film Board documentary, an appearance on CNN and personal bankruptcy -- he's ready to start selling his newest idea. Already, he says, the suit has stood up to bullets from high-powered weapons, including an elephant gun. The suit was empty during the ballistics tests, but he's more than ready to put it on and face live fire. "I would do it in an instant," he said. "Bring it on." Yesterday, he returned to Hamilton to show off the suit, hoping to generate some publicity that will get him the meetings he wants with military and police outfitters. On Saturday, he plans to wear it to Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto and wait for the reporters. It shouldn't take long to create a stir. Hurtubise, 43, wore his suit -- helmet and all -- on the four-hour drive down south, partly as a way of making sure it would be comfortable enough in the field. Even sitting on his armoured butt cheeks, he said he was fine. As he drove his black pickup in his black getup, other drivers gawked and honked. Just south of Huntsville, he was delighted to be pulled over and gave an apprehensive OPP officer a close-up look at the suit. Once he established that he could see just fine in his helmet and that the guns attached to his magnetic holsters were just props, Hurtubise was free to continue his trip. The whole suit -- which draws design inspiration from Star Wars, RoboCop, Batman and video games -- is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam. Its many features include compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble. Dangling between the legs, that would be a clock. In the helmet, there's a solar-powered fresh-air system and a drinking tube attached to a canteen in the small of the back. A laser pointer mounted in the middle of the forehead is ready to point to snipers, while LED lights frame the face. The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms. It covers everything but the fingertips and the major joints, and could be mass-produced for about $2,000, Hurtubise says. He said he hopes to earn enough of a living from the suit so he can keep on inventing, but the real reason he did this, he says, is "for the boys." 
If it's gone though the testing he says it has, and the price tag is only 2k ea.... I'd say go for it! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:29pm
| Does it have a drainhole in the toe to pour out the last wearer who got hit by an IED? |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:31pm
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You wouldn't even need to use the search button to see that there is another thread on this already on the front page of TandO. Failure. ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:33pm
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OH EL DEE
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:40pm
Front page huh? Check the time stamp vs your post. 
Oh.... what is it I'm supposed to say at this point when you screw something up.... crap.... and it's oh-so-witty that you use it all the time..... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:42pm
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http://tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=163616&PN=2 - You lose. Good day sir.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:48pm
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Actually, it's night here, and yes, I saw that after you posted, but you said "Front page, no need to search"
Semantics, but again, so is virtually everything you ever argue. So, fair is fair. Good try though, I'll give you points for consistency in your general attitude toward the general populace of the forums. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:49pm
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TKD: His point is that you were false in saying that it was on the front page of T&O. ------------- 
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Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:57pm
| cool armor, i wonder if any military will take intrest in it |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:07pm
Not from a major firm who is buddy/buddy with the DoD = no sale |
chronic future wrote:Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:13pm
That doesn't mean it won't be a reality though. If he licenses the technology and design to a major firm that currently deals with the DoD, then he'll not only make more with no overhead, but will definitely see his work come to fruition. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:15pm
i'd love for a system like this to be a reality someday, human life is so fragile as it is |
Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:29pm
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I didnt read the post yet, but it looks like something Master Chief would wear. I wonder if it really stops a 7.62
EDIT: Elephant gun eh. I forget how big those bullets are. But I think they were pretty big. How far away did he shoot them? |
Posted By: a5Tpp789
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 7:42pm
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looks like master chief got a new suit -------------  if you put 500 dollars into an A5 it is still an A5
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Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 8:51pm
| thats wicked bonkers |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 9:51pm
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Add strength augmentation and it sounds good. Nice layer of that liquid body armor wouldn't hurt either....
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 10:11pm
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that's about all i could see it for hmmmm.... i like 10 mins from hamilton, ill look him up and ask to be the first real trial haha ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |