The Italian high-tech textile has created an 'armored' fabric that is more resistant than Kevlar: it is soft, light, but above all it protects against shot even from close up. Presented at the EXA in Brescia, it will be the super novelty of the next hunting season
Brescia - Now the people of hunters have an extra weapon. The safety campaign finally reaches a decisive milestone thanks to the high technology of the Italian textile industry that has created an 'armored' fabric with extraordinary life-saving performance.
Is called Dynafelt is much stronger than Kevlar (which is 5 times stronger than steel) and has been successfully tested several times, resulting extremely protective even from shot cartridges fired at close range. It will be the big news of the 2011-2012 hunting season.
At the EXA International Sporting Arms Exhibition in Brescia, it was presented by Roberto Fenzi, CEO of the Lenzi Group, one of the most important companies in the textile district of Prato, leader in the sector of unconventional fabrics.
"Dynafelt”, He explained,“ uses a polyethylene techno-fiber (Dyneema) produced by the Dutch company DSM, and allows the creation of specific clothing lines capable of drastically reducing the effects of hunting accidents ”. An innovation destined to break the trail of blood and controversy, which has always bothered the hunting world. THE 22 dead and 74 injured in 2010 they confirm a downward trend, but still terrible considering also the impact on a decreasing number of hunters, today just over 700 thousand compared to about 2 million years ago ".
Showing the ballistic tests and the first life-saving jackets and hats, Fenzi described the technical characteristics of Dynafelt as follows: “Fiber adds extreme lightness to a very high molecular weight. But the secret lies in the processing, in the method called 'needling' which progressively weaves the fibers to create a jungle of material that is as inextricable as it is impassable, and without resorting to chemical adhesives. The super coefficient of shear and tear resistance makes many different applications possible: to protect against explosions, for bulletproof vests, vehicle armor and even motorcycle clothing ".
The effectiveness of the fabric is documented by over 50 firing tests with two different ones 12-gauge shotguns: A Breda automatic with cylindrical barrel of cm. 62,5, and a Benelli Special 80, barrel of cm. 65 and three-star choke. There are also two types of cartridges: RC Cartridge Camouflage with lead shots 8, e Steel Shot Flakes with steel shot 5.
As for the modalities, the Dynafelt samples (squares of 41 cm side 4 mm thick) were placed just 7 meters from the gun, on a 'Roma-like' plasticine panel, the special material used to simulate the density of the human body. and measure the trauma effect. At 2 meters from the shotgun, a chronograph also allowed to validate only shots that had speeds of at least 330 meters per second, ie cartridges in full efficiency.
Even in these conditions, deliberately to the limit, the results were exceptional. For each shot, none of the cartridge's approximately 350-400 lead shots cleared the obstacle. Only a couple of steel 5s made it. Even the deformation of the plasticine did not go beyond 5-6 mm, on a normally accepted maximum of 40. The 10-meter tests even better: not a single ball pierced the felt and the trauma effect was even more reduced.
Dynafelt, added Fenzi, certainly cannot stop rifle bullets or rifle ammunition, but it can greatly reduce the casualties of normal broken-ammunition shotguns, which are the vast majority. Padded with this super felt, jackets and hats are as comfortable and comfortable as traditional coats and headgear. However, they have one more weapon: they save life.