KEWL!
"Scotty, status!", "Shields at 100% captain"
All right! If we can stop RPG's hopefullly we can stop IED's in the future too.
If we could stop both, our casulaties would be reduced to a fraction of what they are now.
Sky
In WW2 when a new and innovative device was developed to save allied lives, many manufacturers were sought to produce the device under license.
Have we lost our brains? The means to care? The resolve? What?
Damned clever!!
The RPG is literally "caught" by the airbag like a pillow and slowed enough so the nose-mounted fuse doesn't detonate the warhead.....is pure BS IMHO !
The RPG series has a small metal cup over the piezoelectric crush switch that send a signal to a "detonator" at the base of the shape charge via a flat wire. That cup is left on the PG if the user will fire it through heavy rain or tall grass........it is that sensitive in most cases. Based on my experience with the PG-2 and 7 series I'm skeptical as to the airbag thingie. As we see on the strykers currently the mesh grid that trashes the warhead before it can reach the armor works just like we used chainlink fence in static / fixed fighting positions to disrupt or break up so it wouldn't function as designed per se.....the stryker "fence" is a valid standoff form of protection from the side, front or rear shot.I'm gonna have to see this airbag work before I believe it. I'm thinking it will deonate the RPG at a greater standoff so the shape charge doesn't get optimum jet formation to punch the lighter armor of the "utility" vehicle forced fed into an APC wannabe.
Just my opinion ......
A baloon will stop an anti-tank rocket? I'd have to see it.
Air bags and a missile shield, NOW THAT is inventive.