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Bullet resistant space armor material
Depending on how sci-fi you want to go, there are several options.
The options others have given are good, but in addition I can add:
Make up a material. You can decide what properties it has, and ...
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Bullet resistant space armor material
A water ice mountain shaped into a shield, coated with a thin epoxylaxer to keep it together. Space makes it easy to transport, gyros easy to whirl around, although inertia is a harsh misstress.
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Bullet resistant space armor material
I have a couple of ideas:
Perhaps the suits are self repairing. This is similar to the repair kit solution previously mentioned, but what I'm talking about here leverages nanotechnology. Beyond that, ...
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Bullet resistant space armor material
Step one: don't use pressurized suits... use mechanical counterpressure. This is a good excuse to have all your peeps wear skintight figure hugging future clothes, in case you needed one. You probably ...
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Bullet resistant space armor material
Self-sealing rubber lining
i'm aware that even a slight breach in a space suit on mars or the moon results in depressurization and death. to my understanding, even a slight graze of a bullet on a ...
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Designs for copper-gold-silver armor
Tangental to your question
Quoting wikipedia:
The mass of the Earth is approximately 5.97×1024 kg. In bulk, by mass, it is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (...
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Designs for copper-gold-silver armor
There was in fact a period in some parts of the world referred to as the chalcolithic, or copper age. That would seems to be a good start for your future research. It spanned quite a considerable ...
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Designs for copper-gold-silver armor
Armour is tailored to protect against the weapons used. In this case the metals are unsuitable for weapons so weapons would be wood, stone and bone based, like the one in the picture. Many cultures ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Partial answer: Tennis rackets
With eye slits being expertly covered by other answers (dazzle patterns), this answer deals with arrows navigating around other defensive measures like shields, or ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
While I quite like Demigan's proposal to use dazzle patterns, I'd like to add on to it:
Ghillie Suits
Unless they're using some sort of telescopic sights, archers can't actually see someone's eye ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
A simple solution that would make it hard for your smart arrow users to see their targets properly would be polish. Lots and lots of polish! If the opposing army buffs up their armour to a high ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Anti-arrow arrows
The way to stop these smart arrows is smart defenses. Perhaps not an arrow, perhaps a shifting piece of armor, but it moves to intercept the attacking arrow and knock it out of the ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Here is a frame challenge, your arrows will rarely be used in the battle field. Thus armor will not change much, maybe apart from getting thicker to protect from faster projectiles.
It will be ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Active Defense
Some modern tanks use explosive charges on the exterior of their armor to interfere with penetrating rounds. The incoming projectile needs to explode at just the right time to inject a ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Simplest is a plain armor with a "burka-like" overcoat preventing "smart archers" from seeing where weak points are.
A bit of padding would even prevent guessing where eye-slits ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
First, let's look at the limits of your technology
Medieval war bows had tremendous draw weights. Estimates of 180 lbs are not uncommon. (I've drawn a 100 lbs. bow. It's a difficult draw if you're not ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Artillery
That is, arrows are used as artillery rounds instead of pinpointing enemies. Make a bomb, attach it to the smart arrow and launch it upwards like a mortar shell, possibly altering its course ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Would armor evolve in this context?
Possibly. Arrows would not be the only threat in a battlefield. When the arrows are over it's lancing time, and when the spears break you get down to swords and ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
1: Electron… magic warfare.
Like with smart munitions, you add magical nodes that can disrupt smart arrows, if not hijack them. Your arrows will veer off-course, you just lose control or the arrow ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Deception. (I.e., dummies)
Military deception has a longer history than the Wikipedia article might suggest. The obvious famous one being the so called Trojan Horse.
At 200 yards, no-one is going to ...
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Defensive Middle Ages measures against magic-controlled "smart" arrows
Smart archers need to see the arrow in order to control it
Smoke screens and anything which prevents the mages from seeing the target will work pretty well as defense against them, making their ...
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Thermal Superconductors vs Pulse Lasers...in atmosphere
TL;DR: in an atmosphere, thermal superconductors might actually be less useful than in space.
In an atmosphere, your laser power is limited by atmospheric breakdown... the point at which the beam is ...
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Thermal Superconductors vs Pulse Lasers...in atmosphere
There is no different answer than those you got already.
Any weapon designer worth their title would account for atmospheric induced distortion and disturbance on the beam path, to ensure the target ...
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Thermal Superconductors vs Pulse Lasers
A "thermal superconductor" is not just a material with infinite thermal conductivity, they're not a direct analogue to electrical superconductors, as thermal conductivity isn't a direct ...
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Thermal Superconductors vs Pulse Lasers
I've mentioned this subject briefly on various different occasions in one of my many, many laser cheerleading posts on this site passim ad nauseam. I'll gloss over the issue of high-temperature ...
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Thermal Superconductors vs Pulse Lasers
A laser will laugh at a thermal superconductor trying to stop it.
A thermal superconductor is very good at dissipating heat building up in a confined location, but a laser doesn't necessarily heat up ...
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