On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:52:58 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
granpaw quickly quoth:

Bullet resistant too... great for sunglasses sold on eBay.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

Air Force testing new transparent armor

by Laura Lundin
Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs

10/17/2005 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Engineers
here are testing a new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and
lighter than traditional materials -- that could stop armor-piercing
weapons from penetrating vehicle windows.

The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing
directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a
replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now
used in existing ground and air armored vehicles.

Scotty is rolling over in his grave at this revelation of his
Transparent Aluminum for non-whale-retrieval use.

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