'Water Disruptor' Aims At Countering IEDs In Afghanistan
September 14 2010
The Pentagon has been deploying a device to Afghanistan that is able to shoot a blade of water capable of penetrating steel to disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs), reports the Sandia National Laboratories, which developed the device.
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Sandia licensed the technology to TEAM Technologies, also of Albuquerque, which shipped 3,000 water disruptors to Afghanistan this summer.
Soldiers with experience in Afghanistan and Iraq helped test the system and...
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