{"id":93995,"date":"2019-07-21T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-militarys-future-body-armor-could-be-as-thin-as-2-atoms"},"modified":"2019-07-21T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:07:24","slug":"the-militarys-future-body-armor-could-be-as-thin-as-2-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-militarys-future-body-armor-could-be-as-thin-as-2-atoms","title":{"rendered":"The military\u2019s future body armor could be as thin as 2 atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-militarys-future-body-armor-could-be-as-thin-as-2-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been a grunt, then you probably have a love-hate relationship with body armor. You love having it in a firefight \u2014 it can save your life by stopping or slowing bullets and fragments \u2014 but you hate how heavy it is \u2014 it\u2019s often around 25 pounds for the armor and outer tactical vest (more if you add the plate inserts to stop up to 7.62 mm rounds).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bulky \u2014 and you really can\u2019t move as well in it. In fact, in one firefight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/8899\/special_forces_soldier_awarded_second_highest_medal_for_combat\">a medic removed his body armor<\/a> to reach wounded allies, earning a Distinguished Service Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if the body armor were just another part of your clothes, like a light jacket. Imagine not having to haul around those extra 30 pounds. Well, troops may not have to imagine much longer. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asrc.cuny.edu\/2017\/12\/18\/diamene-study\/\">a release from the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York<\/a>, body armor could soon have the thickness of just <em>two atoms<\/em>. This is due to how graphene acts under certain conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been a grunt, then you probably have a love-hate relationship with body armor. You love having it in a firefight \u2014 it can save your life by stopping or slowing bullets and fragments \u2014 but you hate how heavy it is \u2014 it\u2019s often around 25 pounds for the armor and outer tactical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-particle-physics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}