Daniel Adelberg
Welcome to Facebook. Email from Google. Gmail : la messagerie de Google. New tool headed for Afghanistan disables IEDs with a precision blade of water. According to the Pentagon, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are the number one killer and threat to troops in Afghanistan.
Now a new tool that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to help them disable these deadly devices. Developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers, the fluid blade disablement tool produces a high-speed, precise water blade to perform some precision type destruction on whatever IED it’s up against. The fluid blade disablement tool is a portable clear plastic device that is filled with water, in which an explosive material is placed. When detonated, a shock wave is created that travels through the water and accelerates it inward into a concave opening. So when the water collides, it produces a thin blade. The precision water blade is then immediately followed by a water slug, which performs a general disruption and tears everything apart. Focusing the energy Troops lend a hand.
Video: Military's New Water Guns Can Rip Through Steel, Disabling IEDs. Need to disarm an IED? Make sure you've got your Super Soaker handy. Sorry, make that your "Fluid Blade Disablement Tool. " The Stingray, the military's newest bomb-fighting tech, is a small water gun developed by Sandia National Laboratories and a firm called TEAM Technologies. Far from dousing roadside bombs with water, it uses an ultra-high-pressure water beam to slice through steel, ripping bombs open before they can harm troops. Watch below as a propane tank meets an untimely end.
The Stingray involves a clear plastic water tank, about the size of a coffee pot, attached to an explosive charge. Its plastic legs can be attached in various configurations so it can be placed almost anywhere to disable bombs. Sandia first built the Stingray in 2009 and licensed the technology to Albuquerque-based TEAM Technologies for mass production. TEAM Technologies sent its first shipment of about 3,000 Stingrays to Afghanistan this summer. [PhysOrg, Danger Room]
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