Apparently a bomb with only one explosion wasn’t good enough for the U.S. military. A new warhead under development explodes like a standard missile but then every piece of shrapnel cast off by the explosion explodes when it hits any surface. Talk about a blood bath.
When most bombs go off, they release a spray of deadly shards of steel. Now, imagine that those shards were themselves explosive, detonating in a massive chain reaction. It’s for real: Defense contractors are harnessing the strange alchemy of reactive materials (RMs) — in which two or more inert materials are mixed to create an explosion — to develop smaller, more lethal warheads, as well as new ways to protect troops against mortar rounds and rocket-propelled grenades.
I like the defense argument in the last sentence there. Defense my ass. They are going to be using these things to blow the shit out of just about anything.
Original Story: Popular Mechanics
