High Tech Weapons

Apparently, American tanks now have an "electromagnetic force shield" to protect them from RPGs.


From Start & Stripes:
Trade secret?

When Iraqi police brought a load of captured weapons onto their Najaf compound last week, many of the rocket-propelled grenades had electrical tape wrapped around the top of the nose cones.

No, the tape wasn’t there to hold the warhead together; it’s there to defeat the electromagnetic force shield protecting American tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles.

Or so they believe.

One Iraqi said that the technique was brought from Palestinian fighters who have migrated to Iraq and passed on their “trade secret.”