• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    To me it’s 2 things.

    Driving with their windows down against reflections when filmed from the outside, even during rain, freezing temps and snow. Or when someone tries to grab them and they get in a car, apparently putting their window down before driving away, then to be grabbed through the window.

    Other thing is roughly 600 bullets in a gun magazine, plus regular cars being completely bulletproof. Even when driving in full machine gun fire from a gun with thousands of bullets in a 30 round magazine, at most a window gets popped.

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      17 hours ago

      600 bullets in a gun magazine

      Counting shots in John Wick was fun for that reason: the count actually works out

      The bulletproof cars, on the other hand, are still an issue.

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        14 hours ago

        at least with john wick it’s a little more believable that the majority of assassins for a super secretive and exclusive international crime syndicate would have armor in their vehicles.

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          9 hours ago

          Armor in a car doesn’t mean bullets will ricochet on the paint. They will still penetrwte the car body but are stopped by internal armor if the caliber isn’t bigger than the stopping power of the armor. The angle of attack also has a big impact. A bullet hitting the armor with 90° on the x and 90° on the y axis is the same as an armor piercing bullet (those bullets create their own 90°x 90°y surface by melding a piece of softer metal onto the agled armor). And converting a car capable of stopping 50cal AP rounds is really hard. Most armor in cars is to stop lower caliber rounds as the chance of people with military grade high calibers and AP rounds is rather low.