From: Jay Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 14:30:19 PST
Rather than trying to catch Abdullah planting the mines with flying drones,
> [Original Message]
perhaps what is needed is a wire guided remote-controlled point vehicle
that would sweep the radio frequencies used to detonate these devices,
along with dragging chains/rollers/etc boom-mouted in front of it to trip
any physical land mines where possible. That, or something that could pull
a ground penetrating radar and/or a FLIR unit up ahead and detect any
anomolies before the manned vehicles got in range. Wouldn't stop RPGs, of
course, but the big buried mines might be detectable and neutralizable
while limiting human casualties. Now if I could learn how to crap money out
of my ass, I could maybe afford to design and build such a remote vehicle
and sell/lease the design to DARPA. Of course, by then, we'll be in Iran,
and Abdullah's cousin Ahkmed will come up with some novel new idea to play
"repel the infidel".
> From: Cliff S <mtnbikinssgt@hotmail.com>
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 2/24/2006 4:05:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Armed Drones in Iraq
>
> Sure have Stu,
> I have been on in some planning phases also. What you have is lots of
> background people. Who is going to watch the monitor, who is going to
make
> the call that its really a bad guy, who is going to refuel the
> "plane/drone", who is.....the list is longer than you would like to know.
>
> But on the upside, we do have lots of other high techno gadgetry out
there
> sweeping all the time.....ever look at how big Iraq really is? try to
sweep
> the state of Texas of trash, that is about how it would be. Imagine the
> manpower you would waste keeping up the "trash". I know life has no
cost,
> but I have been over here twice in 2 years and I know Im coming back in a
> few months again.......so how costly is it?
>
> The bigger picture is, we have awsome protection of our trucks and
> personnel. But when your up against a HUGE mine, it doesnt matter
> anymore.......its guerilla warfare.
>
> I can talk with you offline if you want about this subject. But you get
the
> gist of it here.
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> SSGT SMITH, USMC Iraq
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> From: "Stu" <stuinnh@mvnut.us>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: [MV] Armed Drones in Iraq
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:00:12 -0500
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> Has anyone given any thought to why the military doesn't have armed drones
> passing over the hwy's every few minutes 24/7 to catch the people planting
> the IED's in Iraq? It must take more then 5 minutes to bury them or hide
> them. I think they will think twice on trying to plant them if they end
up
> dead each time. Any thoughts??
>
>
> "Stu"
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