Talk:Bulletproofing

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Since Body armor redirects to Bulletproof vests, should we remove this "duplicated entry" in the Uses list? --Hurricane111 13:55, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fat

I have removed the uncited paragraph added by anonymous user User:82.11.31.111:

A layer of 60cm of fat is enough for a human to become bulletproof. Carrying this much fat however has its own health risks.

This seems is a bit too bizarre to go in the article, at least in this form, and according to what I assume is the source (see below) is not actually correct. The source concedes that it would not make someone genuinely bulletproof, for instance they would still be vulnerable to serious harm from the shock wave or from more energetic bullets.

A quick search shows it possibly comes from Times Online[1]. It answers a question about how much fat you would need to prevent a bullet reaching an internal organ. It refers to a book, Compendium of Modern Firearms, K. Dockery and R. Talsorian (Games, 1991), that states that a 9 mm handgun bullet can penetrate about 60 cm of flesh but damaging 1 cm³ of tissue for each cm travelled. The article suggests that this might be an underestimate because fat is less dense and softer than muscle, and then discusses this result in some detail, for example concluding that such a person would weigh 650 kg! Jll 21:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)