Army inventors have fabricated and fielded a new armor kit that protects vehicles from the blast effects of explosively formed penetrators -- the armor-piercing roadside bombs used against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to government officials and documents. Fragmentation Kit 6, as the new bomb-stopping shield is called, was developed by the Army Research Laboratory and tested this spring at Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland, according to government officials familiar with the effort who discussed it on the...
