Erdos Had The Number First

I figured it out, the secret of making the best armor: spines.

Nobody’s actually reading this, so I’ll just post it here (and if
I get raided then at least I’ll get one customer, right?). using a ceramic plate scale laminate (like samuri plate mail) armor over a kevlar/dacron fero-fluid (to create an amorphous solid) sandwich with extendable spines connected to the cermaic outer plates. Think porcupine.

The spines should be ridgid, but tempered so as to shatter to dust when hit with high energy. The spines should be NUMEROUS.

The ferofluid needs to be celled to prevent one breech spilling it all out, but the ferofluid provides impact absorption and distribution of the energy. The spines provide a defense against things like RPGs, which detonate on the spines away from the armor plate itself. The spines also prevent human wave attacks,
and can be used on HumVees and bradly’s. The spines can also be easily replaced, along with individual plates. total armor thickness should be about six inches, not includeing magnets (for the ferofluid). Although the kevlar/dacron could be woven with
wires to provide the field for the ferofluid. In fact, now that I think about it, maybe the electricity could be generated from
piezo forces, though I don’t know what the switching speed of piezo ceramics are.

kinetic energy rounds are still a problem, and maybe could be addressed by another means (maybe some kind of spray on foam or something). maybe more spines.

Darpa funding welcomed. Or this works in the SciFi
short story I’m working on.