Armor: Graphene Armor Put To Work
14th November 2018
In late 2018 China announced that its new Z-10 helicopter gunship was being equipped with lightweight graphene (a form of carbon that is extremely thin, strong and cheap) armor. That would make the Chinese the first to make available graphene armor for military applications. Work on this sort of thing has been going on for over a decade with the major problem being developing a cheap and reliable manufacturing process for sheets of this ultrathin graphene. China released few details on its military grade graphene armor other than that it was rigid and lightweight.