[DBrow]

“Seems to me that with the advent of multi/hperspectral technology “

Hyperspectral cameras are very expensive and touchy to environmental issues. At 200K and up, they are division level tools. Very few are small enough to put on a UAV.

We need squad and platoon level tools for this, and the price point for that will be 10K or less. Or a solution that will fit on an average UAV.

Trust me, there are people working on this and other aspects.

One trick the bad guys use is to bury a new bomb where EOD has just removed one, so the disturbed earth is overlooked (the assumption will be that the fresh dirt was caused by the EOD team).

[superfries]

You know I get that it is expensive, I get that it is hard, I get that people are working on it..............what I am saying is the ROI sucks and has sucked and continues to suck. Let's not make the mistake of confusing effort with performance. We have been playing in this sandbox for over a decade and what have we got to show for it on the C-IED side. Not much. I am well aware of the strides that have been made. I have been involved in much of it. I judge our efforts to be less than adequate....... .........and so do the 1000+ guys who have lost a limb since 2001.