U.S. Military Uses the Force

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[[I wonder if a similar techique can be used against bullets for personal armor or home defense.]

>From Wired News --
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U.S. Military Uses the Force
By Noah Shachtman

One of the most dangerous and pervasive threats facing American and
British troops in combat zones is a primitive grenade launcher that only
sets your typical terrorist back about $10.

The Anglo-American defense against this no-tech threat: an electrical
force field that's costing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.

Fitted on light armored vehicles such as personnel carriers, the force
field uses a series of charged metal plates to dissipate the effects of
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), a weapon found by the thousands from
Mogadishu to Kabul to Baghdad.

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