[Enterprise]

"The US Army is thrilled with the results, according a release from the US Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO-GCS)."

This technology was around a LONG LONG time before we got involved in the Mideast. Sad that the Army is only now getting "thrilled with the results."

[agere_contra]

Reactive armour. What will they think of next?

Kudos to Israel though, this stuff is obviously light for what it is.

[pawdoggie]

This technology was around a LONG LONG time before we got involved in the Mideast. Sad that the Army is only now getting "thrilled with the results." The reason that the US military didn't go all out for reactive armor is that we had already devised a method for defeating it: the "tandem" warhead, in which not one, but two, shaped charges are fired at the same spot in the armor. The first charge sets off the reactive armor, the second charge penetrates the vehicle's hull. Many, if not most, modern anti-tank missiles employ tandem warheads (if memory serves, there is even a tandem version of the RPG-7V warhead). Fortunately, the Iraqi terrorists don't have the product-improved tandem warheads, which is why (once the insurgent threat was recognized) we made the big buy of Israeli reactive armor.