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Applying pressure for clearing land mines
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[QUOTE="Baluncore, post: 5459668, member: 447632"] As pictured above, the reliable technology was developed 75 years ago. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail[/URL] On solid ground, the flail will give a very high clearance confidence at a very low cost of consumables. The relative cost to the enemy of the original mines and the cost of mine clearance to the survivor is not important. The problem should be resolved safely for minimum cost. A pneumatic actuator would be quite expensive if it was destroyed each time a mine was found. If the location of the land mine is known then it can be counter-mined with a small explosive charge. That can be arranged to give the best probability of cutting the trigger mechanism from the mine, possibly without detonating the main charge. An alternative would be to use something like a shotgun to apply the pressure to the mine. A heavy shotgun barrel will survive the detonation of the mine. In soft ground such as a swamp or rice paddy, the mines may circulate up and down until it may be triggered at the surface years later. Where stray land-mines may have surfaced, a dense herd of goats or sheep are driven through prior to planting. The cost and probability of killing an animal is small, but it can still feed the village. The small area of hoof that does so much damage to the land while grazing increases the ground pressure needed to trigger a mine. [/QUOTE]
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