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To: GSlob

Sorry. TTP is tactic, technique, procedure.

I don't know enough about whether it works just to shoot an IED. I do know there are plenty of other methods of controlling IED detonations that the terrorists don't know about--and they're VERY effective.


22 posted on 05/10/2006 9:03:44 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
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To: Future Snake Eater
"I don't know enough about whether it works just to shoot an IED."
Depends. From my ages ago training in explosives, if one can shoot through a detonator, then yes, even a regular rifle bullet would work. But the probability of hitting the sensitive detonator [especially if the IED is hidden] is zilch. Thus, [just as for an aviation bomb], one is more likely to hit the body of relatively insensitive high explosive. To cause reliable detonation in such a case one needs either a hypervelocity projectile [not available] or a projectile which is itself explosive and would serve as a detonator, i.e. high explosive round- like decent-sized HEAP, if I remember the acronym. If IED is hidden in a pile of bricks, I'd go for 20mm HEAP, no less.
25 posted on 05/10/2006 10:25:45 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: Squantos

Ping.


26 posted on 05/11/2006 2:21:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Future Snake Eater
I do know there are plenty of other methods of controlling IED detonations that the terrorists don't know about--and they're VERY effective.

They now know they exist. Careful what you say here, the walls have ears.

27 posted on 05/11/2006 3:03:42 AM PDT by SLB (Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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