Steel body armour in the US is about 10mm with antispall coating (truck bed liner), I think

tho if i consider those plates would be between the outer and inner wallpanels the 7.62 would still penetrate reinforcement beams and just make the car "tincan with superball in it"

composites cost a shitton

Oh, nvm, you're talking about armour piercing

aluminium alloys are option but they are not that good (only for small arms fire)

(>implying my sprinter would ever see weapons outside of gunrange and controlled testing)

and i dont think i can could never afford composites or DU-Composites

If you're trying to stop armour pericong ammo you're fighting a losing battle

i know

but wondering how fucking heavy would AP-resistant (not proof) sprinter be

https://youtu.be/7jqfRlSoK60

tho apparently RHA costs around 1k dollars for metric ton

Think it would depend on what and how you armour

if "slap on" plates on outer walls + extra on engineblock

it would add quite bit of weight

(lets not consider roof or bottom penetration a problem in this case

Would be more worried about the frame warping from the wall weight

yeah

thats why i was considering the inside the walls plates instead

sure it leave tiny "weak" caps

but easier to hide and can be reinforced with the chassis

You could probably get away with just armoring the cabin and engine

probly but incase i want to make sleeping compartment behind

id want its walls armored anyway

tho realistic scenario in finland is only handgun and some occasional axes

but theorycrafting is always nice

Seems about 12mm of hardened steel is barely enough to stop a full power armour piercing round. Though anything that makes it through probably won't be doing much, especially if you coat the inside with truck bed liner https://youtu.be/hzYH8ap1TDo

or wrap the sheets inside kevlar weave (that shit is so cheap)

I'd be curious how good chink Kevlar is anyway.

their bodyarmor pieces are legit afaik

tho i can get kevlar localy

"only 105 euros/meter"

:D

its fucking polyester weave what has like 18% kevlar in it

for that price

Relevant to this conversation; I want to make a THLR target but am not rich enough to pay for it and more importantly the shipping.
Current plan is to take 20mm steel and plasma cut the diameter roughly, sand it down and then put it on a lathe to get the circles.
https://vertebrae.no/int/after-the-shot/shooting-aids/shooting-targets/thlr-hardox-shooting-target-350mm
Any way chinks could help me out?
I'd rather steal metal from my school than pay for it myself. No option to harden it though, so I guess I'll have to go for **thicc** steel. Or cover it with Kevlar? That'll get seriously messed up from 6.5x55 🇸🇪

Yo

Anyone from EU wanna have some minerals

haha