Soldiers tell Sky News how they have discovered mines and booby traps hidden in doors and in the magazines of automatic weapons - and even attached to dead bodies.
For the members of the demining unit in Ukraine's 35th marine brigade, every step is fraught with peril - every action is beset with risk - during a period that has been particularly dangerous.
As the Ukrainians press ahead with their summer offensive, the Russians have countered with Soviet-era tactics.
They have laid millions and millions of landmines. Territory and communities along the 1,000km (621 mile) frontier have been saturated with anti-personnel mines, anti-vehicle and anti-tank mines, and remotely-detonated mines.
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WNU editor: This is troubling .... 'Metal detectors are no use': Challenge of removing landmines slows Ukraine counteroffensive (France 24).
Idiots ....what did they expect, most mines are made with very little metal. Most are plastic, polymer compounds.
ReplyDeleteYou have to have specialized equipment to handle those things. BTW. most mines are not bobby trapped but laid out by mechanical or other mass employment schemes, like the Volcano system.
I'm not sure about this but there seems to be a war going on and one side ( at least) is acting like they want to win it.
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DeleteOne thing to point out about systems like Volcano is that the detonators are on timers. It is possible to just wait them out in the unlikely event that a peace treaty happens. This doesn't account for all mines of course, but still the majority that have been deployed in the last 6 months.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid we haven't seen the worst of this yet. The apartheid South African military used to take Soviet mines and add a new detonator that incorporated light and motion sensors. In Angola, people had to resort to placing tubs of gasoline over them, light the tub with a cigarette lighter, and then run away.
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