Would The Iron Man Suit Be Bulletproof In Real Life? Adam Savage Finds Out | Savage Builds

I'm standing at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department shooting range in Dublin, California where we're planning to shoot some guns at our newly finished Iron Man armor to find out if it's

bulletproof

and if it's okay then it's crossed that division from costume to

real

. Armor I'm excited to find out it's like a cooking show, but with weapons For today's test, my team and I built a remotely operated weapons stand that will allow me to pull the trigger from behind a shield to prevent the weapons from bouncing off. bullet fragments that we will shoot. multiple calibers of bullets to test the armor's resistance to increasing impacts, a 22 caliber, a 9 millimeter caliber, and a 45 caliber, consider them small, medium, and large, and why do we shoot at a steel plate when we try find out if our titanium armor is

bulletproof

, well it's because I also want a comparator, so let's shoot our three calibers at the steel plates and the titanium so we can see how the titanium responds compared to the plate of steel.

Okay, here we go shooting a 22. subsonic hollow point in steel in three two one, that's a successful shot, okay, look at that, a perfect splash, okay, I didn't expect the bullet to go through this steel plate and it didn't. , but it also tells me that my sight picture is pretty good, the next nine millimeter, this is shooting a nine millimeter hollow point in steel in three, two, one, here we go. I can see that it impacted. This is a regular nine millimeter bullet, in three, two, a great .45 caliber regular hollow point round bullet, three two. one that's a big dent, okay, we'll recap, this is 22 gauge, this is a nine millimeter hollow point and a round ball and this is 45 caliber, the 22 gauge, I'm not that worried about that, but I do use steel . armor and I get hit by a bullet like this that is going to hurt like hell, now it's time to fire the same three calibers at our

iron

man armor and find out how well the printed titanium resists the attack of these bullets.

I feel like this. is in a good position the impact of a bullet is determined by the mass and speed of the projectile, the larger the bullet and the faster it travels, the greater the damage caused to the target, we hope that the bullets will not penetrate our titanium armor , but yes, do we want to be able to measure the damage? Point out the doll right here, there, perfect. We found this company that makes ballistic gel dolls with bones and organs that have been calibrated to have the right density of the right organs, and as you can see, this. one is slightly worn, okay, get the armor, we will fire our three bullets of different calibers with pistols at a distance of 20 feet, close enough to inflict fatal damage to an unprotected human torso.

The safety is disabled. Here we are going to shoot someone. Iron Man armor, okay buddy, look on the other side, here we go. 3D printed titanium Iron Man armor versus 22 caliber bullet in three, two, one, there is no break in the surface, there are no dents, there is nothing, I can see the mark where the 22 caliber is. I hit but there is no no tactile sign that a bullet hit this and that means it is bulletproof, but it is a .22 caliber bullet. I

would

like to shoot it with more firepower to find out how bulletproof it is.

I can't believe he just said that sentence we are moving up to a nine millimeter bullet not only is it larger than the .22 caliber because it contains more gunpowder it travels at a much higher speed here we go we are hot here we go nine millimeter bullet versus man armor

iron

on three two one the light cover fell off but let's see how we did it right wow I hit right next to the other shot a small dent I mean I can feel it but it probably moved less than a millimeter , which is impressive and You can see the bullet hit here and sprayed like this and the amount of force actually knocked the lens out of the chest.

This kind of thing happens from time to time. Close examination of the armored pole shooting at him reveals this here a bit. A little bit of shrapnel in the ballistic gel and if I take it out I can confirm that yes, yes, it is a piece of lead from the bullet and apparently this is one of the hidden dangers of wearing Iron Man armor is that when the bullet splashes your chest. If you don't have proper neck and chin protection, all the pieces of that bullet have to go somewhere and will enjoy burying themselves in your tender flesh.

Now we'll move on to the larger bullet at 60 percent. more mass than the 9 millimeter, the .45 caliber bullet is capable of causing much greater damage, okay, the safety is off, here we go. 3D printed titanium iron man armor versus 45 caliber bullet, three two one, there is a big hit, let's see it, wow, something significant. Yeah, it came up and hit the shoulder bell, hit the shoulder pad, but it seems to have jumped. Wow, there's a .45 caliber bullet hit right there and it hasn't even left a significant mark that is bulletproof armor in the movies. We're always watching Tony Stark in the Iron Man

suit

while people are shooting at him and the bullets just bounce off him.

We have now empirically determined experimentally here at the range that that is an accurate picture of what a titanium Iron Man

suit

is. I

would

do it in relation to bullets, it is totally bulletproof.