DVIDS (CENTCOM / DoD): Picatinny-produced MUCHETE housing the gold standard for blast mitigation

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - The MUCHETE started off as a side project, said its creator Greg Stunzenas, but it has turned into one of the military’s finest blasts mitigators, and a pride of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Armaments Center. Short for Multi-Use Charge Housings for Enhanced Target Effect, the MUCHETE is a special housing built to decrease blast overpressure, the unseen rippling force after an explosion which can easily cause traumatic injuries if unm...

Source: DVIDS (CENTCOM / DoD).

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