Quote from: DamienHollow on <05-10-13/1524:23>Yes but if it's too stretchy then It won't stop the bullet, just catch it and let the deformation give you terminal internal damage.There are verified historical records in both Europe and China of people wearing silk, which would not stop arrows but would catch the arrowheads and allow the arrows to be removed without complex surgery as likely as not to cause more damage than it stopped given surgical and germ-knowledge of the time.And since the thread seems to have been answered and is drifting anyway...Quad crossbows. Smartlink and red laser sights don't apply their bonuses to dual-wielding by RAW, silly though I think that is. If you're going to do it, go big or go home.
Yes but if it's too stretchy then It won't stop the bullet, just catch it and let the deformation give you terminal internal damage.
a modern cross bow can deliver somewhere in the range of 200 foot lbs of force... a modern .30-06 deals around 6x that much.
You cannot compare an arrow to a bullet.
Remember, you don't have to kill the vehicle to stop it, just kill the guy driving it.
Could you just include a layer of the spidersilk over a normal armor, giving it the same impact armor and perfect ballistic defense? The armor would stop the silk from stretching much, and the silk would keep the bullet from penetrating... right?
