MRAP armor development for Iraq
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Shaped-charge history (Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1880s) → conical copper liners produce a three-foot molten-copper jet that penetrates three feet of steel → IEDs in Iraq/Afghanistan defeating Humvees → Army study of titanium, steel, aluminum, and six materials → glass selected as MRAP belly armor (six layers of two-inch glass). Textron Systems (Wilmington, MA) makes the copper liners. Aberdeen Proving Ground Army lab demonstration.