Air Bag Armor in the Works -- Defense Tech
You're driving down a rutted out wahdi in Helmand province. Your eyes are tired from the monotony, but you know you have to keep on your scan for those tell-tale spots of disturbed earth.
Rounding a small bend, you drive down a slight embankment and veer back to the right and BOOM! the IED goes off.
The proximity of your JLTV was close enough to the huge explosion (double stack 155 rounds) that your crew -- if they had not been killed outright -- would be left severely wounded, with possible brain injury from the cuncussive blast.
That is except for the innovative armor their high tech vehicle carried...
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My Comment: Theoretically this sounds to be a unique development .... practically .... I guess we will find out one day when (if) it is deployed into the field.