Timeline for What thickness of human flesh would have the same protective value as 100mm of RHA?
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| Apr 1, 2023 at 18:46 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | If you're Asking about anti-tank weapons, which of today's creatures - including elephants on land and blue whales in the sea - do you hope might survive even hit? Who doubts that a rough, order-of-magnitude estimate on how much protection layers of flesh might provide would be zero; none; nil points? Almost separately, when comparing 'giants' to real people, both biologists and physicists tell us the 'giant' can't be much bigger than you or me… certainly nothing like twice as big. Does that much make sense? | |
| Apr 1, 2023 at 18:36 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Can you say what RHA is, please? (I Asked that before seeing SRM's Comment, which I wholly support.) | |
| Mar 26, 2023 at 14:48 | comment | added | SRM | Please edit the question to define the acronym. RHA should be spelled out on first reference. | |
| Mar 26, 2023 at 12:50 | answer | added | Cheetah | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 13:39 | comment | added | biziclop | The thing about penetration is that by and large, the less the target resists, the less actual damage is being done. Sure, the hole itself can be lethal, but if it isn't, a projectile that carries the majority of its kinetic energy away is safer than one that dumps it all in the target. And how much of the energy is transferred is down to a thing called "coupling", which is usually optimised (if we can call maximising killing power as such) for specific targets. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 6:31 | comment | added | Cadence | Keep in mind that you're talking about living tissue here. A bullet doesn't necessarily need to penetrate skin and flesh to cause damage to the organism. If your muscle tissue stops a bullet but now you're bleeding internally from ruptured vessels around the point of impact, I'm not sure you really come out ahead. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 6:25 | comment | added | RonJohn | Since giants can't actually exist (due to the square-cube law), ignore the problem and write your story. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 4:39 | comment | added | dreamforge | You're probably better off giving the giants shirts made of rocks sewn together in a primitive chain mail fashion, which probably defend more than striated muscle fibers. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 3:25 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 24, 2023 at 22:25 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 20:39 | comment | added | Adam Kabbeke | @The Commander - I know that there are different protection values for kinetic and chemical AT weapons. I just wanted a baseline so I can get a start to do the napkin math @g s - I'm aware of the square cube law. Giants was perhaps too vague. The creature in question will be something closer to the human blob thing at the end of Akira. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 20:38 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 20:12 | comment | added | The Commander | @gs half expecting the user by that name to appear with an objection. Also, as for the poster-there are different kinds of of anti-tank munitions(HESH vs APDS for example, even though most modern antitank weapons are missiles). Which kind do you want protection against? | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 19:52 | comment | added | g s | I would suggest that your giants be partially animated and reinforced by magic / Sufficiently-Advanced-Science, and tune their resilience to anti-tank shells to exactly the quantity most beneficial to your plot. Humaniform giants aren't plausible without magic anyway, thanks to our old nemesis the Square-Cube Law. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 19:42 | comment | added | JamieB | Things to ponder: ballistic gel penetration depth. That said, I'll be amazed if anyone has fired an anti-tank weapon into ballistics gel. I feel like now that you have brought it up, someone is going to have to do it on YouTube. If they haven't already. Wonder about the kinetic impact too (shockwave, "blunt force" trauma). | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 19:41 | comment | added | Demigan | Your question probably boils (heh) down to “how far would they travel inside water”. Perhaps you can find something along those lines. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 19:23 | history | asked | Adam Kabbeke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |