Midway into the hot part of Iraq when American troops had basically no defense against most IED's despite years of MDIC promises something was coming, a frustrated solitary troop bought a toaster from a local bazaar, broke it down, and stuck it on a long pole.
https://twitter.com/benkohlmann/status/1774784983032340507
You see, the some insurgent groups had started to use passive infrared sensors as triggers, this made side attacks more deadly, especially with Shia EFPs which cut through the lightly armored HMMWV's like a hot knife through butter.
What this troop managed to do with his ghetto toaster and pole, was trick the IED sensors into thinking the toaster heat source was the engine, and trigger a premature initiation before the HMMWV entered the killzone.
By war's end the Army had fielded some 36,000 RHINO devices. Some of the lucky few even got to watch theirs get blown off...
Innovation is still real... the people who die with it aren't listened to, and the people "innovating" are selling a theory that may or may not work.
Innovation is still real... the people who die with it aren't listened to, and the people "innovating" are selling a theory that may or may not work.
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