Land Mine Detecting Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms

Re:Land Mine Detecting Rats Are Overturning Decades of Milit... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:38AM (#33799391)

So in your post to incorrect others on 'thats not how explosives work' you got absolutely everything wrong about how explosives work. Typical HN.

> You wouldn’t ever give your enemy deliveries of repackagable charges.

Where did you get this preposterous idea? Do you imagine a major military will send out it's soldiers to collect labdmines on purpose to dissasemble them and take out tiny amount of explosive? And after loosing dozens of soldiers and huge amount of time to get explosives of dubious age and quality, do what with it?

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Re:Land Mine Detecting Rats Are Overturning Decades of Milit... by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:28AM (#33803102)

>Do you imagine a major military will send out it's soldiers to collect labdmines on purpose to dissasemble them and take out tiny amount of explosive?

I literally said the complete opposite of that by saying the mines have to self-destruct. They still need to explode. Try another read of the original post.

I worked with an EOD group in OIF. Where do you think IEDs come from? You think farmers and merchants are mixing ANFO in their huts? No, it's all seconardy explosives they we "donate".

Tell me more.

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Re:Land Mine Detecting Rats Are Overturning Decades of Milit... by ClumsyPilot on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:11AM (#33829049)

'Where do you think IEDs come from? You think farmers and merchants are mixing ANFO in their huts?'

Tell me whwne I am wrong:

You don't lay down square miles of landmines in a conflict against insurents, i.e. Taliban. You only do area denial against real militaties.

In a conflict between any real militaties, like the recent Russia vs Ukraine, no-one is wasting their time making IEDs.

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