Det Net

I searched all over the place looking for prior art. I Googled, I searched all the appropriate HB categories I could think of... and I'm really shocked this hasn't been done before. But here goes...

As stated in the Summary line, it's a net made of detonating cord, deployed via a simple net launcher and triggered using an impact-sensitive primer, useful for all sorts of things. Possible applications include having a large net buried under leaves and remote detonated when a mass of enemy troops walks over it. Basically, a rapidly deployable and easily removeable minefield. Not powerful enough to stop tanks, but just right for antipersonnel use.

Another excellent use would be to have a very large Det Net trailing behind and to the sides of ships passing through the Gulf of Aden, a fathom or two below the surface. Any pirates attempting to board would drive their boats right over the net, then the crews could simply hoist it up against the offenders' hull and detonate it, literally blasting the boat out from under the pirates, while sparing their lives (If they drown, that's their own fault for pirating without knowing how to swim).

Or, it could be deployed via net launcher to drape over the top of a pirate boat, to blast the crew and leave the burned-out hull intact, to remain afloat as a grisly warning to other would-be pirates.

Brutal and controversial, yet amazing in its simplicity and effectiveness, and sure to bring a swift end to any conflict in which it is used. Det Net. Order yours today.