[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;35838794]Quite a few mine types are minimum-metal types. This design is extremely cheap and won't fail to point out minefield areas.[/QUOTE]
You mean the one in the OP?
But yes you're right about that, but they still use metal detectors where they can, like where there are mines with a lot of metal, so I figure why not take out the human factor?
[QUOTE=mac338;35838856]You mean the one in the OP?
But yes you're right about that, but they still use metal detectors where they can, like where there are mines with a lot of metal, so I figure why not take out the human factor?[/QUOTE]Good metal detectors cost quite a lot, it would quickly become unreasonably expensive to use remote ones that can still set off e.g. tripwire mines. A careful human using it won't set them off, and in any case there's always modern versions of the crab flail to clear minefields en-masse.
Valid points, shucks.
[QUOTE=mac338;35838856]You mean the one in the OP?
But yes you're right about that, but they still use metal detectors where they can, like where there are mines with a lot of metal, so I figure why not take out the human factor?[/QUOTE]
Because humans don't get stuck in divots
$50? I want one for my yard.
[QUOTE=Gubru;35838931]$50? I want one for my yard.[/QUOTE]
the only mines you can find in a yard are dog shit, though. :v:
[QUOTE=Arctic-Zone;35839804]the only mines you can find in a yard are dog shit, though. :v:[/QUOTE]
sometimes that's the deadliest form of mine, actually
My favorite cost effective mine locator is rats, rats can be trained to find mine and are small enough to not set them off.
[img]http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/9.2/RD/verhagen/apopo_reward_cmyk300.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.ted.com/talks/bart_weetjens_how_i_taught_rats_to_sniff_out_land_mines.html[/url]
Also does anyone have a link to that story about that guy who dissarms mines in his spare time without advanced technology? I think he has a mine diffusing school/museum now too.
At first I was all like 'Oh wow, that's a really nifty land miner clearing device' then I saw the second picture and was like 'wow, that's a giant shrapnel bomb waiting to happen; this is the most retarded thing I've ever seen'
I think it would just be better to have mine clearing specialist methodically clear an area.
Those tumbleweeds are too random.
You know how they have those airplanes that scoop up water and drop it on forest fires? I'd outfit one of those to carry a bunch of these tumbleweed mine detectors and have it fly over suspected mine fields and drop them on it. They'll bounce around and set off mines. After a couple of passes you'll have cleared a path right through the minefield. Then you send a bunch of little kids out to retrieve the tumbleweed mine detectors, you can pay them in candy. Any previously undiscovered mines will be cleared and you can move on to the next batch of mines and the next batch of kids, you might even have some candy left over for when you clock out.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;35835345]If the tank was moving at just 10 miles an hour you could cover 240 miles a day (It'd need to be continually filled, probably by dragging a pipeline of fuel around rather than being conventionally, manually filled.)[/QUOTE]
and then it turns and the pipeline goes over a mine that goes off and you end up with a lovely brand new flamethrower on the back of your tank
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