Air Force testing new transparent armor
The Air Force is testing a ceramic compound, Alumimum oxynitride, as a replacement for multilayered glass in armored vehicles.
ALON™ is virtually scratch resistant, offers substantial impact resistance, and provides better durability and protection against armor piercing threats, at roughly half the weight and half the thickness of traditional glass transparent armor.
Many readers of this blog, though, like myself, will immediately think of Star Trek IV, and Scotty giving away the formula for "transparent aluminum" in exchange for enough plexiglass to house the whales and their water on board their bird of prey.
We do truly live in a Science Fiction Present.
Posted by Jvstin at October 23, 2005 12:55 PM