Army Research Office looking to develop new, synthetic explosives for future fights

By Dominic Minadeo / October 1, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The Army is worried it won't keep up its dominance in range and lethality on future battlefields due to inadequate energetics and limitations with current weapon systems and is starting to explore developing synthetic energetics, according to a broad agency announcement posted by the Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) Tuesday. “We still do not know the answers to basic questions such as 'what makes a good explosive,'” the BAA says. To make up for that gap, the Army is calling...

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