Land mines
i think that we should not band them exept the nation should make them self-distruck after the war and place on an map tell if you got all mines
Well, if the UN required member nations to band mines, it would greatly aid in identifying them, especially in low light, thereby preventing many accidents. Anti-personnel could have a red band, anti-vehicle could be blue, proximity mines could be yellow...
Well, if the UN required member nations to band mines, it would greatly aid in identifying them, especially in low light, thereby preventing many accidents. Anti-personnel could have a red band, anti-vehicle could be blue, proximity mines could be yellow...
I disagree. Mines are meant to be hidden, and if we make them visible it defeats the purpose. If the bands don't make mines visible, what are the odds that someone would spot the yellow band before the proximity mine detonated?
Too bad you folks weren't born vietnamese a generation ago, your idea s would have been quite appropriate... lol
Well, the band part would be buried for most of the mines. For other types of above-ground mines, you would just have to hide them well. My idea for safety was more for the soldiers installing them, so that they would not accidentally grab the wrong one from their pack during night time mining. The bands on the mines would make them easily distinguishable in low light.
Ah guys.
Although I am personally against the use of land mines, I hope you all realise that land mines in the minds of the military ae just tool of "area denial" tactics. In fact, with the R.W. USA government facing similar bans in the future on the use of land mines it has already begun a search into new technologies that would allow them to create "area denial" on the border of R.W. South and North Korea thus limiting the risk of any land based invasion of the South by the North, and at this time that possibility is held back by, yes, a lot of land mines, an awful lot of land mines, millions, I think the number runs up to,
Oh yeah, and already one promising technology that will probably replace land mines, invented by a R.W. Australian inventor is a gun system called the "POD" or metal storm project (Yes, sounds like a sci fi video game, but try searching google or altavista to learn more), which is based on the electronically triggered firing of multiple projectiles in one barrel, with multiple barrels lashed togeter, giving a single set up of a Metal Storm gun a firing rate of something like a million or two rounds a minute, the rounds usually being 40mm frag grenade rounds, which is f***ing scary if you ask me . . .
My point is, if we get rid of land mines, what are they gonna use instead? And then what will they use after that? Simply put, we all want to get rid of land mines, the sensibles us, want too, that is, but whats gonna replace them, and are we treating a problem, or a symptom?
A Rep of Komokom hoping to make people think about the issues behind the issues, If ya know what I mean.