A REVOLUTIONARY new material called Composite Metal Foam, or CMF, can pulverise enemy rounds and could even be used as an armour to protect tanks and other combat vehicles.

Slime, foam, glass — not the typical ways to stopping bullets cold, yet all three at the base of the most outstanding body armor breakthroughs of the year. In 2017, the U.S. military pioneered ...

Engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a composite metal foam from steel. Less than an inch of the material can stop an armour piercing round fired from 16ft away.

Last year we saw researchers adapt foam metals to stop various forms of radiation in their tracks, ... Lightweight metal foam turns armor-piercing bullets into dust By Nick Lavars. April 11, 2016 ...

Incredible video shows a revolutionary lightweight FOAM stopping an armour-piercing .50 calibre bullet as experts say it could be used to protect soldiers on the front line.

A REVOLUTIONARY new material called Composite Metal Foam, or CMF, can pulverise enemy rounds and could even be used as an armour to protect tanks and other combat vehicles.