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When an improvised explosive device detonates under a military vehicle, it鈥檚 often not the blast that kills the people inside 鈥 it鈥檚 the extreme acceleration that snaps spines and severs arteries. But a new vehicle design that fits rocket motors to the top to exert an immediate and overwhelming counterforce could save the people inside.
The idea isn鈥檛 as mad as it may seem. The upward force of an IED blast can instantly catapult a vehicle many metres into the air. Although vehicle floors are strengthened to prevent IED hot blast gas and searing debris…
