This is the 12th installment of a multi-week effort to share examples of posters which were presented during September’s Future Force Capabilities Conference presented by the National Defense Industrial Association in Austin, Texas.
I’ll let it speak for itself and contact info is on the poster.
You have to post these posters in a higher resolution, we cant read the fine text on them even on a desktop pc.
They are posted at the resolution provided to me. Perhaps contact the POC?
I think the blog is compressing it on upload to meet the width requirements of 440×660 resolution. Most images you post on articles end up 440 wide and they scale the height to meet that width. Can you email me the original you were provided with so I can confirm?
Right-click on the pic, open the image in a different tab, delete the resolution before the .jpeg and hit Enter.
Something like this:
https://soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ndia-2018-frangible-ap-poster.jpg
Now thats the ticket, thank you very much!
I had this same issue but I figured it out recently. This site’s odd and the image has some scaling build in- if you zoom in with your browser, it’ll make the image far higher resolution. You can then right click it and save it at that higher resolution.
Interesting to see small arms cartridges moving towards the same principles as (anti-) tank ammunition.
But multi layer ceramics albeit heavier, should be able to counter the effect described in the poster?
It would make sense to make a composite of layers of ceramic. There’s a lot of polymer backers that already blend different densities and polymers. They will use a core within the backer of generally a softer polymer and use a harder variant to encase it. This would make a composite that has different properties. I’ve seen a few plates with it mostly from LTC. The real question we should ask is if a bullet design like this applied to current threat ratings would defeat them. Same FPS, Weight and all that jazz. Just different design
Hmmm. Does this kind of bullet in 556 penetrate lvl IV ESAPI plate? If so… wouldn’t it make part of the reason for NGSW disappear?
PS Eric, don’t worry about the pic resolution – I could easily read the text on a cell phone 😉
Agreed. If a 5.56NATO version of these projectiles can penetrate even a NIN Level III / RF2, then rational NGSW is mostly irrelevant. Of course this is still early lab produced beta testing. Some time and money will be needed to replicate this for real field testing. And who knows, maybe the ceramic frangible ammo has ruggedness issues in a field setting. None of it has been tested. Also on a cell phone resolution is great.