Patent ID: 8857309

Claim:
A method for protecting objects against rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) having a hollow nose cone, comprising: providing a netting of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibers, aramid fibers, polybenzobisoxazole fibers or combinations thereof wherein the netting is knotted and wherein a flexible coating is impregnated on the ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibers, aramid fibers, polybenzobisoxazole fibers or combinations thereof and wherein the size of the meshes of the netting has been selected so that the nose cone of a rocket-propelled grenade caught in the netting will penetrate one of the meshes of the netting and be deformed through strangulation, thereby disabling the detonator and wherein the meshes are capable of withstanding a circumferential load of minimally about 3 kN; and disposing the netting in front of an object.