How to make bulletproof vehicle glass

Bullet-resistant or bulletproof glass is one of the most important components of an armored vehicle. Most, if not all shooters will aim at the windows because they can see through them. The ballistic glass is specialized bulletproof to withstand greater compression, pressure when bullets hit a car. The windows of the car are the most vulnerable part if you are ever to be attacked. A good protection against that is an outer layer of bulletproof glass with an inner layer of polymer plastic.

Ballistic glass is made of highly resistant, advanced, and transparent materials which in combination can stop most types of a bullet. Armoring the windows, which makes up a large portion or fraction of a vehicle, is an important step when bulletproofing a car. Just a thicker version of safety glass is not enough to make a fully armored car. In bulletproofing, glass is referred to as “transparent armor.” It is not a thicker version of the safety glass found in the side windows of standard cars but rather a sandwich of polycarbonate (a type of plastic) and leaded glass. Thick safety glasses can break under specific compression from bullets coming at high speed. They cannot even withstand most high-profile car robberies.

To bulletproof your windows, you must sandwich them with polycarbonate polymer on the inside and leaded glass on the outside. The thinnest option, a leader glass that has a diameter of 0.8 inches, will stop subsonic rounds and a bullet firing from a 9mm handgun. Another option, however, is to choose the thickest bulletproof shielding, which is about 2 inches thick. These can even stop a shot from a high powered 0.30-06 rifle, which is one of the top graded combat ammunitions. If necessary, the electric window motors can be replaced by beefier ones.

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