Blast blanket
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14/12/1995
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Down To Earth
SRI International, the US contrad research organisation - former known as Stanford Reseai 2 tute - has devised a hardensi luggage container to mitigate ON effect of a terrorist bomb blast on aircraft.
The 0.5 inches thick "blanket" is made of materials that can absoic bomb blast debris and fragment preventing damage to the aircraftc can withstand a three pound plastic explosives blast, equivalent to tic bomb that destroyed the Pan American flight near Scotland in 1985.
The 0.5 inches thick "blanket" is made of materials that can absoic bomb blast debris and fragment preventing damage to the aircraftc can withstand a three pound plastic explosives blast, equivalent to tic bomb that destroyed the Pan American flight near Scotland in 1985.