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Interesting. Guess it makes sense they've tried it before. For some reason I imagine the current approach as laying down and slowly stabbing the ground with a
by incomingpain 5y ago
Interesting. Guess it makes sense they've tried it before.
For some reason I imagine the current approach as laying down and slowly stabbing the ground with a bayonet.
- GartzenDeHaes 5y agoI think this is the current approach. The gadget he is holding is a mine detector that's not much different that a commercial metal detector. https://media.defense.gov/2014/Aug/12/2000810975/700/465/0/140805-M-XX999-078.JPG https://media.defense.gov/2014/Aug/12/2000810975/700/465/0/1...
- rolph 5y agothe stabbing part is part probing, and part digging out the mine that you know is there already.
- salawat 5y agoThe Flail approach does work.... You just really want to make sure you've sufficiently hardened the important parts. Explosions are not something you get many second/third/nth chances with dealing with if you undershoot the PPE required for effective protection. It's actually really cool, because once you're done demining, you get a really fancy tiller out of it. A horribly fuel inefficient one, but hey! Blades into plowshares and whatnot.