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Actually, the uparmor does work against both (shrapnel and overpressure). This UAHMMWV took a HUGE IED blast just 200m north of the old team house in Samarra on the big Nov 30 fire fight last year. All three soldiers substained minor injuries (which our 18D treated), with the Plt Sgt returning to the fight. The 240 gunner up top received the worst injury, but he was still RTD.
Most soldiers who die from IED attacks are dying from blunt trauma head injuries, this is what killed our Tm Sgt Kelly Hornbeck. He was in a unarmored Land Rover when a IED sent a piece of shrapnel through the windshield impacting his helmet and causing his helmet to deform inward causing massive trauma to the brain.
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