Flash 4130 beats 12560J 0.30-calAP by 668fps.  Tested at 0 degrees... the hard way

Flash Bainite is the Strongest, Most Ductile, Lean Alloyed, Readily Weldable, Least Expensive Ultra Strength METAL known to man. A50 tensile ranges from 1100 to 2080MPa (160-302ksi) with 8 to 9% elongation.  Total elongation up to 10-11% is not uncommon.  Flash 4130 at 1900MPa and 9% elongation exceeds titanium-6Al-4V's strength to weight ratio making it pound per pound stronger at only 56% the volume. Flash4130 is 10% the cost of Ti-64.

"Off the shelf" sheet, plate, and tubing can be made into Flash Bainite. Triple the strength of Chrome Moly, Flash 4130 is pound for pound 2X stronger than the best aluminums. If you are "lightweighting" structure with aluminum, Flash Bainite will do a better job at far less weight and cost.

Environmentally friendly, this process consumes less than a half Kwatt of energy per Kg of steel processed (less than a penny/pound). Water is used instead of polluting oils or molten salt. Traditional Time Temperature Transformation and Continuous Cooling Curves do not apply to common steels transformed with this process.  Many of the world's leading metallurgists have reviewed Flash Processing and fully agree.  Flash Processing is unique technology to make lean alloyed steel stronger and more ductile than ever before.
Flash Bainite Armor has proven at six ballistic testing labs to be pound for pound the strongest, most ballisitcally resistant, readily weldable metal known to man.  For tthe same level of protection against 0.30-cal AP at 0 obliquity AND 20mm FSP, the choice is 10psf of Flash 4130, at least 16psf of 5083 Al, or even heavier 6061-T6 Al.  Early tests indicate Flash 4130 does not suffer adiabatic shear plugging.  This means against 0 obliquity AP, Flash 4130 requires only 2/3 the thickness (thus 2/3 the weight) of RHA or High Hard.  At 5-10psf, Flash 4130 has vastly superior AP protection over Ti-64.  Flash 4130 beats all 10 psf metal armors against 20mm FSP.  Data doesn't lie ... Flash 4130 is far more than "just High Hard"

Metal Matrix Composites are known to increase mechanical and ballistic properties of aluminum and magnesium.  The flaw is that Al and Mg, even with their very low density, are pound for pound very weak metals.   Flash 4130 is a naturally occurring Iron-Based Metal Matrix Composite.  The homogeneous combination of ductile bainite, strong martensite, and chromium carbides is unmatched in performance.

"Too good to be true", Flash Bainite has suffered harshly from "Not Invented Here" (or 18 miles south of here!). Any negative reports are from ill-informed that have done absolutely no metallurgy on Flash.  We can apologize for mild exaggerations in the scores of media articles on Flash that we did not even interview for and had no literary control over. Curiously, the folks in Colorado referenced unpublished, internal Quench & Partition data in an "OPINION" paper on Flash but ignored the independently tested Flash DATA we sent to them. Flash data of 302ksi at 10.2% elong at 97.2%wt Fe was sent, yet ignored, after a Colorado professor emailed our team he would be discrediting Flash in an AIST article.  Who is misleading now?

Q&P shows impressive results at 95%wt Fe but Flash uses less energy, alloy, and time.  Flash true data is on DeMoor's downloadable chart above. Colorado told me four years ago they didn't like Flash simply because we called it "bainite", regardless of TEM and atom probe data. IRAD Flash results are right up there with Quench / Partition results from 21 institutions.

Flash Bainite is the highest overall performing, readily weldable Armor ever.... and at the lowest cost. A 7-10psf aluminum hull stops handguns at NIJ Level II. 10psf Flash 4130 stops NIJ Level III 30-06. US Army and others' data exists to back every Flash claim. Challenges Welcome!