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Applying pressure for clearing land mines
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[QUOTE="Baluncore, post: 5463647, member: 447632"] There is no need to be sudden when clearing a landmine. For example, you could drill into a plastic mine with a solid “unicorn horn” or “screw extractor” shaped drill, then if the mine had not detonated, pull back to lift it out of the ground. It would not matter where you penetrated the mine, or how the trigger was rigged, it would either detonate or not. Either way you have removed it from the ground. I suspect that in anyone minefield, the number of models of mine being cleared will be limited. Each type of mine will have some sensitive primary trigger. Once those trigger mechanisms have been identified it will be easier for an autonomous vehicle to reliably trigger or lift that design of mine with minimum resources. You might also expect to find one mine laid on top of another somewhere in the field, or possibly a booby-trap trigger to cripple a mine clearance officer. Your vehicle should be designed to survive that event, or at least provide some evidence as to what was abnormal prior to it's destruction. When a mine is triggered, the ground provides a reasonably solid backing, so all the energy will be radiated upwards into the air above, which is how it was designed to work. Any confinement above is liable to increase shock-wave pressure and at best, could only reflect half the air-blast into the Earth. For that reason the clearance mechanism needs to be both “sparse” above the landmine, and mine type specific in it's approach. The idea that mine clearance equipment will need to be moved more than once, is wishful thinking. The equipment should be multiple, cheap and replaceable. It will be abandoned when it's job is done, or when the accumulated injury / damage is beyond repair. The flail tank is expensive but has a high probability of survival. A goat is cheap but has a zero chance of survival. A mine clearance automaton needs to clear mines somewhere near the minimum cost per mine. Finding that minimum is a design challenge. [/QUOTE]
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