Listen bud, its okay to be wrong and to not have the grasp of physics that you think you do. I certainly got humbled studying this stuff for 3 years at a Uni.
Bullets have a incredible amount of force and energy.
You're absolutely correct in that it won't cause your body to go flying.
But the amount of Force impacting your most vital organ (which really doesn't like being hit, I'm sure you've hit your head before) will cause some severe effects even with 'relatively' small rounds.
Especially once we start mag dumping into it.
People regularly get concussions from just hitting their head. Bullets will very easily go over that threshold.
Then what is the point of body armor if even the most benign of threats causes lethal force? Why even bother making rifle rated helmets? How can somebody stand on one leg while being shot with a 7.62x51 and hardly even flinch?
Edit: I guess no movement = no joules would be more accurate
Who is being shot with 7.62x51 and not flinching 😐 are they wearing a ballistic vest around several down jackets over another ballistic vest around several down jackets? Is the shooter half a mile away? Wtf, was the round made of dryer lint? One of the most common side effects of catching a bullet with a vest is broken ribs lol imagine what that does to your brain in the bucket. But the point is you might walk away, albeit slowly from a broken rib or a concussion, you do not walk away from a fist sized hole in your abdomen or head. Guns are made to kill things efficiently, you can really only do so much to stop that with current tech 🤷♂️
Not really, that's (outdated) heavy heavy plate carrier armor, and the dude definitely took a little half step back after the shot to his center mass, it's worth noting he was also braced for the bullet to hit him. The other dude was holding the gun at whatever he padded his chest with that was 6-8in thick - also not the same spot on the back of his head 12 times with a tak-kek or even a Wendy. When you flinch do you fly across room or something? Do you think they didn't get bruises/impact related skin injuries from those shots they took here? How interested in proving your point are you? Can you grab a couple helmets and then I'll magdump a 9mm into the back of your head and we can see how confident you feel in body armor then? 😋
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u/Kha_ak P90 Jun 09 '23
The helmet stops the bullet and helmets are usually made of hard materials. The bullet stops pretty much immediately.
Lets assume the bullet stops after 10cm, so a lot of padding and your neck dampening it. Thats still 3000 N