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Posted: 12/20/2002 10:22:17 PM EDT
[#1]
Cheaper by the hundred dozen...
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Posted: 12/20/2002 10:48:47 PM EDT
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I'v walked among them... your fine as long as you have sense enough to not F**k with 'em. Had a couple of Hummers run over 'em. they will blow tires and radiators. This is a good reason to put sandbags on the floor of your vehicle.
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Posted: 12/20/2002 11:07:08 PM EDT
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Quoted: Cheaper by the hundred dozen... do we get em at Costco? [:D] |
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Posted: 12/20/2002 11:42:54 PM EDT
[#4]
Send the goats ahead.......
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Posted: 12/20/2002 11:45:42 PM EDT
[#5]
Ever hear of the Polish mine sweeper?
You cover you ears and stomp your feet. |
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Posted: 12/20/2002 11:51:12 PM EDT
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I've considered this problem before and I have to agree that the idea of unexploded munitions is undesirable for many reasons.
I should think that there would be a way to make the bomblets go inactive after a set period of time to avoid this problem, perhaps by using some sort of degrading material in their internal construction. |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:00:31 AM EDT
[#7]
Aren't some mines made to self detonate after a while?
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:03:17 AM EDT
[#8]
I once ate a mine made of chili, hotsauce, eggs and beer.
That one exploded! |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:04:39 AM EDT
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Quoted: I once ate a mine made of chili, hotsauce, eggs and beer. That one exploded! Any fragmentation of the porcelain? |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:06:48 AM EDT
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82nd, there was nothing left of the porcelain. It blasted a foot deep hole in the concrete.
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:11:52 AM EDT
[#11]
I hope it was at work. [:D]
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:13:12 AM EDT
[#12]
It was at a friend's house. She hasn't spoken to me since, and she took out a restraining order against my ass [stick]
[:D] |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:15:33 AM EDT
[#13]
Maybe you and 1GR should team up.
That would be a story. |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 12:21:10 AM EDT
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Quoted: Aren't some mines made to self detonate after a while? yes we had some i forget what there called . |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 8:14:02 AM EDT
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You would think that after a while people in these areas would learn [b]NOT[/b] to touch small metallic objects:
"Watch out iuhsdjk it's a bomb!" "No qoytyqpow, I've heard of these, It's called a Beer can, see the stylized letters?" |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 8:40:52 AM EDT
[#16]
Cluster Bombs
The Gift that keeps on giving! MM419 |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 8:48:35 AM EDT
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Sounds like good targets to shoot at. Probably a little more bang than Tannerite!
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Posted: 12/21/2002 8:53:32 AM EDT
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It's a problem for the US, too. In Gulf War 1 there were some problems with US troops going through areas that had been hit by MLRS or cluster bombs. It tends to reduce the abiltity of US forces to manuever. They decided to try to reduce the dud rate from 5-10% to something smaller.
There are mines that detonate after some period of time--family of scatterable mines, FASCM. They'll detonate automatically after some settable period of time, from a few hours to a couple days, and detonate once their battery runs out. Kinda like a deadman switch. |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 9:00:08 AM EDT
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Seems to me it'd be a good time for marksmanship training...set up a couple hundred yards away with a designated marksman's rifle, and start shooting them off.
It'll take a while and use lots of ammo to clear it, but the marksmanship training would probably come in handy... |
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Posted: 12/21/2002 9:00:18 AM EDT
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US ordnance has an acceptable "dud" rate of 10%. This is because of the many, many safeties that we put into our ordnance in order to make it safer for shipment and use. Here is one simple rule while in a combat zone or military training area. If you didn't drop it, don't pick it up. We have forces deployed all over the world disposing of the UXO (unexploded ordnance) and landmine threat including Afghanistan.
Mark |
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