New vehicles allow GIs to find, remove hidden IEDs, Roadside Bombs! (GNFI)

Stars & Stripes, European Edition ^ | 4 Jan 04 | Rick Scavetta

[Eagle Eye]

Seen'em.

[xzins]

Wish I'd seen it. What the recent movie....Memphis Belle???....It was pretty good, too.

[Little Bill]

Didn't you or Travis McGee suggest using South African vehicles on another thread?

[Squantos]

Long ago.....we used em for decades. The Buffalo has been around since rhodesian fall.....

[Little Bill]

I remember doing road sweeps in Viet Nam, at least one Roller Tank a week would come back with all the road wheels blown off, I am glad someone found a solution.

[GretchenEE]

A Godsend, an answer to prayer. I rejoice to read this.

God bless and save our troops.

[MarkL]

OTOH, you're not fooling anyone. Your first videogame was Pong, admit it. The original version. And it cost you a quarter a shot...

Nope!!! Magnavox Odessey... I even had the pistol for target practice...

It was pretty much just a pong game, you could just play pong, or tennis, by putting a green "tennis court" plastic overlay on the screen, or ice hockey, with the overlay that looked like an ice rink!

Mark

[xzins]

Just a technical question, but I understand the roadside IED's in iraq are wire activated and not radio.

A radio device wouldn't blow them, would it?

[Travis McGee]

I think we have found both types.

[xzins]

A radio transmitter wouldn't detonate a wire activated mechanism would it?

[gitmo]

At times, locals will point out potential bomb sights, for fear that an attack could harm their children, Lipe said.

Don't tell the democRats. They want Iraqis to do anything to hurt Americans.

[SoCal_Republican]

That picture reminds me of "Logan's Run". LOL!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Anyone that looks that stupid deserves to blow themselves up.

[SevenDaysInMay]

I read last month that terrorists in Iraq are using remote door bell systems.

[dsc]

"Stars and Stripes should have caught this."

They get less professional with every passing year.

If you're in the mood for a snotfight, email their ombudsman about their left-wing content.

[Elsie]

Tplant that produced these: Lucas-Harold.

Naval Ordinance Plant, Indianapolis -- NOPI was it's next name, as it was turned over to the Navy.

It then was changed to NAFI -- Naval Avionics Facility, Indianapolis

Then is was NAC -- Naval Air Center (One of about 6-7)

Then it was NAWC -- Naval Air Warfare Center

Then came Clinton and no money for war.......

"Boys, we gotta cut back. Who wants to go?"

[Methinks it's time for ME to retire!]

(Guess which center was NOT located on a body of water? -- this WAS the Navy, after all.......)

Then it turned over to HUGHS (really, it was series!)

It is now part of Raytheon.

[Elsie]

Sure!

HAven't you seen signs where road work was being performed, warning you to turn off CB's or other transmitters while driving thru area??

[xzins]

I've always assumed they were using remote activated.

[archy]

Archy's the one who taught me almost all I know about the Meerkat and related hardware.

Archy's another 'real deal' only he's on the drawing-board corps.

Well, I'm about to suffer another birthday shortly, so I'm not quite as active as I was when I was a teenager, or in my 20s and 30s. But I'm not *just* a drawing-board corps guy, I hope, and really, I first got into the mining/countermine measures like Pookie and Meerkat in the '70s as a spare parts and components guy in the logistics chain. If it can be built so it don't break, it won't need replacement parts, and accordingly, my job gets a lot easier.

But I may send you a *Wish you were here/instead of me card* in the coming year that'll suggest I'm not quite yet shy of the noisy places yet. Depending on how you count, it'll be my ninth time up at bat.

-archy-/-