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it depends on what you need to do, just get through for now, or make a large area friendly again. dragging steel cable by helicopter; extending primacord into
by rolph 5y ago
it depends on what you need to do, just get through for now, or make a large area friendly again.
dragging steel cable by helicopter;
extending primacord into the minefield, then detonating
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/mine-clearance/m58-mine-clearing-line-charge/4585953394001 https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/mine-...
a sapping vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail
http://www.pki-electronic.com/products/police-customs-and-military-equipment/mine-clearing-vehicle/ http://www.pki-electronic.com/products/police-customs-and-mi...
Pookies can help sappers get around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pookie_(vehicle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pookie_(vehicle)
- atlasunshrugged 5y agoI was trying to think through the longer term issues so more the latter (making a large area friendly again), especially for kids who may not always be aware of how to watch out for anti-personnel mines in random places
- rolph 5y agothat is the perennial issue of landmines. the trust in landmine use to remain traditional is something to consider. nothing other than morals would stop someone from setting individual mines in various places during a withdrawl. one thing that has been experimented with is to use beehives, and conditioning bees to associate the scent of explosive with sugar syrup, the bees will forage and tend to loiter near the scent of explosives, thus pointing out a possible mine or munition. https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/12/07/227361/using-bees-to-detect-bombs/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/12/07/227361/using-bee... https://www.sandia.gov/media/minebees.htm https://www.sandia.gov/media/minebees.htm