Airbag Defense

clipped from www.youtube.com SCI Air Bag Armor Developed by Survival Consultants International, this new armor system uses lightweight airbags that depoy when the flash of a roadside bomb blast reaches the vehicle. The system absrobs the cuncussion and some shrapnel. clipped from www.popsci.com Armored Airbags to Protect Vehicles from RPGs and Roadside Bombs Airbags could prevent RPGs from exploding and neutralize the blast of improvised explosives clipped from defensetech.org Airbag Defense The key to Dave’s airbag pro­tec­tion that dif­fers from Textron’s is that it detects the IED blast light, which arrives at the vehi­cle well before the blast does and gives the sys­tem time to deploy the airbags before the blast reaches the vehi­cle. I know that Israeli and some US so-​​called “active pro­tec­tion” sys­tems use radar to detect the object com­ing towards it, but with Dave’s sys­tem, the detec­tion is pro­jec­tile agnos­tic since it detects the light of det­o­na­tion (or launch?) and deploys at the speed of light (with fiber optics).