I recently watched a show on TV called ‘Future Weapons’ which features new weapons of variuos designs.
One of the weapons featured which is manufactured in Britian is a specially shaped water can similar in SIZE to a WWII Jerry (gas) can. This plastic device is filled with water and directs a stream of water when detonated which rips apart anything near it including artillery shells and other explosives without them off.
On this particular show, it was shown being used on a car which had a few artillery shells (IED’s)in the trunk.
The explosion ripped apart the rear of the car and sent the projectiles a considerable distance away. In the process of detonation, the ‘explosion’ rips apart any wiring and controllers which may be used to detonate the IEDs. Since the ‘explosiion’ is mainly a focused water jet, it doesn’t set off any other explosive material which it may be used against.
The Brits were very clever when the designed the “dambuster” bomb in WWII.
Their experiments showed that instead of attacking the reinforced concrete of a dam directly, it was more efficient to have the bomb hit the water side of the dam and then sink.
When the device detonated the massive amount of water behind the bomb/dam would focus the explosion against the concrete. The efficiency was increased many fold versus an explosion in the air.
I had not thought of Jerry cans in years! LOL!!!