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Old 02-11-2018, 07:06 PM   #2
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Default Re: [Pyramid 3/85] Cutting-Edge Armor Design: Designing the Bat-Suit (1989)?

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Originally Posted by Phantasm View Post
Obviously the suit is sufficient to take .45ACP or even .44Magnum bullets at basically point-blank range leaving only slight bruising (going by what I guess the guns the thugs used).
No need to guess; there's a site called the Internet Movie Firearms Database which can be used to look up exactly what guns appear in many films.

Seems like the heaviest thing the batsuit faced in that film was .357 magnum. That means it's DR could be as low as 10, although being able to take point blank shots kind of implies something a bit tougher. Based on the look of the suit, I'd say it is no more than a quarter of an inch thick, probably less. That implies that the fabric is Improved Ballistic Polymer, which seems about right.
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