Shiite forces in recent months have stepped up their targeting of U.S. soldiers in Baghdad with sophisticated EFPs, described by one official as like "a spear that rips right through the [Hummer] vehicle."
The penetrator, a heavy, metal projectile, is propelled by an explosive and strikes with enough speed and power to shatter the relatively brittle, "high hard" steel of up-armored Humvees, creating what experts call "behind armor debris (BAD)" -- essentially, turning pieces of the vehicle into shrapnel.
(WaPo)
Also definitely BAD is that thousands of Hummers lack appropriate armor. Still. Today. Right now. And 2,000 more vehicles will be required to accommodate the DOOFUS' Surge™. More BAD.
Not good.
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