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Originally Posted by Anthony
Shear thickening fluids are a method of eliminating blunt trauma, but they probably won't allow ballistic cloth to stop rifle bullets at any reasonable thickness. However, I suspect Admiral McRaven may have been blinded by bafflegab and that it won't actually work.
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Actually, the Talos is proposed to use Magnetorheological Fluid, which is behind shear thickening fluids in development, more complicated, and requires electricity to create a magnetic field, but I guess might be more promising as an armor strengthener. Hopefully they are right.