Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Digging Under The Enemy To Detonate Explosives

The Mole

An Autonomous 'Bot that Burrows Underground to Deliver Deadly Payloads -- Popular Science

Something big is happening underground.


There's been a lot of talk lately about what's happening underground, from DARPA's Transparent Earth program to subterranean navigation systems (for real). Not to be out-DARPA'd by DARPA, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is seeking a "one-time use, air-delivered, highly mobile vehicle" that can tunnel into the earth and deliver a munitions payload underground.

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My Comment: Burrowing under the enemy is an old idea .... but it appears that the tech to do this is now far more advanced.

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