Posted on Oct 15, 2020
Army engineers use 1950s breaching tech; robots might solve the problem
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"The Army aims to get those humans out of one of the most dangerous battlefield scenarios through a combination of better ways to neutralize mines or obstacles, better detection of said mines or obstacles, and robots to do the job."
Army engineers use 1950s breaching tech; robots might solve the problem
Posted from armytimes.com
12B: Combat Engineer
Robots
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LTC Eugene Chu Reminds Me of this Story. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/603/once-more-with-feeling/act-three-0
You Had One Job - This American Life
A bomb disposal robot is assigned a new and even more complicated task.
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Just give me some cases of Bangalores and step aside. We were using Torpedos dated 48-52 in the Vietnam, Republic of, most or them went off, and never bumped a booby trap or mine with them. What could go wrong .............
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SP5 Richard Welch
We had them from Vietnam, and Korea when I was in 82nd. We were issued bazookas from Korea, because of a shortage of TOW Missles.
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SPC Ralph Ware
Cool! C/307, RVN we never had the need. 2nd tour, 25th-65th Eng...we used them looking for caches in heavy foliated areas that were loaded with booby traps and crap. Upper was afraid someone might get hurt! Glad they didn't consider if it goes Boom at the front it continues to go Boom at the rear! Ahhh screw the Engineers! Only time I fired a Bazooka was AIT at Leonard Wood. 'Course at that time all we had were M-14's. Never saw a -16 till the Nam.
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