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Commander Strangelove

Or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the (reactive material) bomb.”

Reactive armor is already being used to protect armored vehicles and tanks from penetrating and long rod warheads. Now however, those krazy kooks with slide rules who never quite got over the joy of making things go boom are looking to extend the protective belt out away from the vehicle itself.

From Popular Mechanics:

When most bombs go off, they release a spray of deadly shards of steel. Now, imagine that those shards were themselves explosive, detonating in a massive chain reaction. It’s for real: Defense contractors are harnessing the strange alchemy of reactive materials (RMs)

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