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| Demining Laser |
| 2006-09-09 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 Mines are used against tanks and other heavy equipment. Which we have. And many armies don't in any quantity. Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-09-09 13:49 |
| #2 It's the false positives that are the problem in de-mining. Optimally, I imagine they want a laser that can be mounted on a helicopter. First you would pop a few blasting cap explosives charges next to say, a square acre you believed was a minefield. The subsurface sound reflections could be discriminated by computer to show all objects larger than say, a grapefruit. Most of these would just be rocks. Anything too large or small would be ignored. But that narrows it down enough so that the chopper could hover above, zapping each and every target, and igniting all the land mines. If they really wanted to be good guys, I think they have developed some hybrid plants that readily uptake the toxic chemicals in the soil after a land mine detonates or burns. The Humvee app would be mostly for IEDs. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-09-09 10:50 |
| #1 Guess if you knew where it was you could also throw rocks at it... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2006-09-09 05:27 |