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> in my obviously completely inexpert opinion, I wouldn't have recommended I'm pretty confident they had some of the best experts on the case. The UK has som
by traceroute66 4y ago
> in my obviously completely inexpert opinion, I wouldn't have recommended
I'm pretty confident they had some of the best experts on the case.
The UK has some of the best bomb-disposal minds, the IRA campaigns on the mainland during The Troubles ensured that. Just look it up on wikipedia ... double-digit number of bombs planted in some years !
- goodSteveramos 4y agoOver a thousand or about 60% of the Provisional IRA kills were British soldiers. So yea they got hit hard. I haven't seen any evidence that they actually improved their bomb disposal techniques though. The British Army kept getting successfully bombed into the 90’s.
- twic 4y agoDoes defusing a brand new IRA bomb involve the same set of skills as defusing a decades-old Luftwaffe one? I would have thought it's a rather different problem.
- yarg 4y agoNot entirely. The IRA bombs are designed not to be disabled, whereas that's not a concern with a dropped bomb. With the older bombs degradation of the explosive needs to be considered.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIED has progressed immensely since the internet and the best bomb disposal techs are the people who'd been doing it recently and they're mostly in the middle east.