Can you still make body armor from silk?

>>31553189
Yes, one layer of it will be fine.

>>31553203

<_<

>>31553214
>_>

>>31553189

Yes, done in the 1900's. Experimented with recently.

Google it next time.

>>31553189
Only if it's silk spun by black widow spiders sprayed with carbon nanotubes.

>>31553189
You tryin to make me comfy, asshole?

>>31553242
BY GOD HE TURNED GREEN!

GET THAT MAN A BUCKET!

>>31553189
The rarest yellow grinning face ?

Distantly related, but there was a test conducted rooting back to asian cavalry using blankets (think parachute behind drag car) to deflect incomming arrows. It worked, actually.

Fuck yeah!
You'll probably have to make it about 10 cm thick and then it might stand a slight chance of blocking something but sure, you can make armour out of silk.

>>31553189
You can make armor out of air.
Just make sure you got a few miles of it between you and the .40 Problem Solver.

Yes. It works well for stopping butterflies

>>31553264
I'm gonna spray your mom with my nano tube

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Supposedly Mongolian higher-ups had silk vests, because the silk would "catch" the arrow somewhat, preventing a barbed arrow from snagging the skin. You could just tug on the silk vest and it'd pop the arrow out.

>>31555717
I shouldn't have laughed at this.

>>31553203
Got any data to backup that statement?

>>31555707
Science

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>>31555887
>you

OP here, I was just reading on Wikipedia about documented cases of silk handkerchiefs stopping black powder revolver bullets. An 1851 Navy will penetrate ballistic gel nearly as far as a 9mm, some guy on YouTube tested one against a Beretta.

And thick silk vests were used to protect against bullets a hundred years ago, back when smokeless powder was a thing. Archduke Ferdinand had one he never wore.

>>31555739
Confirmed Mongolian calvary and archers wore just silk shirts for that reason. Hiliraous when they fought the Teutonic Knights who wore like 100 lbs of steel plate and Mongolia arrows went right through.

>>31556347
It's a good thing Archduke Ferdinand owned one.
"the first bullet wounded the Archduke in the jugular vein, the second inflicted an abdominal wound on the Duchess."
oh.