[DeTomaso] NPC mostly. Bulletproofing your laptop

[Dave Londry]

Damn - just can't resist a problem.

You get small arms bullets, still having some energy, up to 1000 ft.
(and your roll-out to 1000 ft time is pretty short)
You get 50 cal equivalents, still having energy, up to 3000 ft .
(longer exposure, but much less likely)
An SA14 or QW2 (shoulder- fired SAM) operates to 10,000 ft
  and delivers an explosive-frag warhead that showers an aircraft with 
small, high-speed shrapnel.

So if you believe all that:
- you're exposed to cheap SAM fire much more than bullets.
- the burst will come from an engine because the IR seeker has gone there.
- you'll get shrapnel from the side
- you'll probably loose the aircraft and the laptop
- wear the vest and sit on the other vest so you're in the best possible 
condition to leave the scene.
dave
(I do have some mil systems-analysis background, but about 40 years 
out-of-date)
Current analysts must have have the best recipe for keeping your hide 
intact,
and as Will says approximately, screw the laptop.

On 03/10/2012 4:51 AM, Will Kooiman wrote:
> There is a very good chance that it wouldn't.  It might have a better
> chance without a vest.  A bullet that misses the hard disk would go all
> the way through the laptop, transmitting very little energy to the laptop.
>   With a bulletproof vest, it would likely be similar to dropping the hard
> disk on cement from about 10 feet high.  I've never tried it, but my money
> would be on the former.
>
> And, if the bullet went through your body, Profiles would also be lost,
> because most likely, your successor would do it their own way.
>
> Mike - I like you a lot, but using a vest on only the laptop is just plain
> stupid.
>
>
> On 10/3/12 1:43 AM, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 9/30/12 16 48 13, rob at dumoulins.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> Mike, just curious, even if a laptop were wrapped in a vest, wouldn't a
>>> bullet impact still bust it up?
>>>
>>>>> Perhaps, but probably not.   The vests do a great job of absorbing
>> energy and distributing it away from the point of impact.   Even if the
>> computer
>> got banged up a bit, the hard drive would survive, for sure, which is the
>> important thing.
>>
>> Mike
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