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And in tank warfare this is called spalling

A projectile hits the armor and doesn't penetrate it, but the armor inside still fragments and injured the operators

There a picture of glass spall in the cockpit and it's not unusual for ballistics glass to spall when hit by a projectile.

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> Spalling

This was also adopted by The Expanse, where the interiors of ships (particularly war ships) are coated in antispalling coatings.

Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.

It’s mentioned in the books, kopeng. I think it comes up in some of the repair scenes, but there’s such a jargon dump in many of them that it might slip by. Naomi is caressing some of it at one point, like she’s petting a cat. Which is not far off from how she sees the Roci.

*bosmang. I'm not sure it's mentioned in the show, but it is in the books.

I can think of two in the show, but one is right before Holden needs to tell Nagata something important, and the other is in the middle of a brain dump at Tycho station when the Roci is being diagnosed for repairs.

Might have been a mention on the Agatha King.

didn't help Shed Garvey lol

My read is that it works mostly for battle shrapnel and space mining accidents and does nothing for kinetic weapons, hit or miss for micrometeoroids.

Shed was killed by a railgun round. These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.

If it somehow could then aiming for the reactor would spin the ship so hard you’d pulp some of the crew.

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