New Technology To Counter IEDs

U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Kear, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, searches for IEDs as a canal burns in Tahwilla, Iraq. (Photo by DVIDSHUB)

The Navy Reveals Secret Device to Defeat IEDs -- Popular Mechanics

The Pentagon has researched lasers, projectiles, jammers and everything else to defeat improvised explosive devices. The new effort uses radio waves to blow them up before their makers intend—but will it work?

Last week the Pentagon revealed the existence of a new weapon in the war against roadside bombs: a beam of radio-frequency energy that can detonate hidden Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at a distance.

And its creators say the potential does not stop there—the beam could be also used to set off other types of warheads before they reached their target. In theory it might be used to set off ammunition before the enemy even has a chance to fire. "The capabilities are not limited to improvised devices," Lee Mastroianni, program manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), told Popular Mechanics.

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