<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4d4b79ec-0d39-4bf7-b7a9-ecf90d470508/3579E9EB-3F57-4614-8CEF-9066871E680F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvcYckNOTA&feature=player_embedded" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvcYckNOTA&feature=player_embedded" style="font-size: 11px;">www.youtube.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvcYckNOTA&feature=player_embedded"><H1>SCI Air Bag Armor</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvcYckNOTA&feature=player_embedded"><SPAN>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. 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margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs" href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs" style="font-size: 11px;">www.popsci.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs"><H1 class="title article-title"> <A href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs">Armored Airbags to Protect Vehicles from RPGs and Roadside Bombs</A> </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs"><DIV class="dek"> Airbags could prevent RPGs from exploding and neutralize the blast of improvised explosives </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/can-armored-airbags-protect-vehicles-rpgs-and-roadside-bombs"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.popsci.com/img/01AD5B10-7B3E-4515-9ACC-3133F42960ED" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://defensetech.org/2009/11/05/airbag-defense/" href="http://defensetech.org/2009/11/05/airbag-defense/" style="font-size: 11px;">defensetech.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://defensetech.org/2009/11/05/airbag-defense/"><H1>Airbag Defense</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://defensetech.org/2009/11/05/airbag-defense/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/defensetech.org/img/88AA8771-1ED1-49FC-8F1B-2572DC5085E0" alt="counter-ied-training" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://defensetech.org/2009/11/05/airbag-defense/"><P>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 “<A target="_blank" href="http://defensetech.org/2006/03/13/active-protection-speeds-up/">active pro­tec­tion</A>” 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).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3579E9EB-3F57-4614-8CEF-9066871E680F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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