Armored Vehicles Take Damage From Enemy Fire -- Then Self-Heal? Yes
Aug 1, 2020
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Could biology provide the techniques to make these sci-fi defenses a reality?
by Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
Imagine an armored vehicle takes enemy fire and is disabled, crew members are injured and its functionality is impaired when all of a sudden its armor regenerates. Perhaps a drone is conducting surveillance while operating in a forward, high-risk combat area when it is nearly decimated by enemy explosions, yet its biologically-inspired polymer material instantly self-heals. Furthermore, what if a soldier’s body armor is damaged by enemy attacks during close-quarter urban combat, placing his or her life in immediate danger, but their armored plates quickly regenerate and so keeps the soldier alive?
While not here yet, these kinds of Hollywood-sounding warfare scenarios are not entirely beyond the realm of the possible, given cutting edge research now funded by the Army Research Office and conducted by Penn State University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
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