Not all mines are electrically initiated, so this device would be of limited use in mine clearing unless you could be sure of what types of mines were used. And even then I'd be careful...
It's still an interesting development though, and I'm sure its effectiveness will improve.
" It is rumoured that teams from both services, faced with a tiresome or inconveniently-timed task, have been known to move a piece of ordnance up or down the beach to the other side of the high-tide line in order to hand the problem off to someone else."
>>The bar armour has nothing to do with stand-off distances or disrupting copper jets or anything like that. This is incorrect reporting that is sadly being perpetuated by the, normally pretty accurate, El Reg.
The bar armour has everything to do with stand-off. (See below).
>>The bars of the bar armour are spaced in such a way that the bars deactivate certain types of RPG fuse resulting in the warhead not being able to function, they can also deform the cone of the shaped charge prior to detonation.
The RPG fuse is a piezoelectric impact fuze, so the only way to "deactivate" the fuse is for the warhead to be jammed between two bars or be deflected from its previous flight path. Jamming the warhead between two bars is limited as the RPG warhead currently in use has an igniferous self-destruct, which, from memory will function 9 or 10 seconds after firing.
>>The stand-off distance for a shaped charge BTW is several feet or more, not the foot or so that the bar armour stands off at.
Bollocks. The RPG is designed so that its optimal stand-off distance is equal to the distance from the tip of the warhead to the front face of the cone.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
"Most of the admins I've ever dealt with were kind of "difficult". They need to learn to think like the users do and speak the language the users speak, as anyone should do for their customers"
Did it ever occur to you that the "difficulty" might be at your end?
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@ Obviously
Well, you're entitled to your opinion and us tax avoiders are entitled to ours.
But whilst you're on the subject of morals; please explain how extracting money with the threat, and subsequent use, of force is morally acceptable?
Grow your own
wookie suit...
Mines?
Not all mines are electrically initiated, so this device would be of limited use in mine clearing unless you could be sure of what types of mines were used. And even then I'd be careful...
It's still an interesting development though, and I'm sure its effectiveness will improve.
Ah hah. The evil UN at work...
From ten years ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/951082.stm
Grabbed from here: http://aljahom.wordpress.com/
Oh really Lewis?
Rumour my arse.
" It is rumoured that teams from both services, faced with a tiresome or inconveniently-timed task, have been known to move a piece of ordnance up or down the beach to the other side of the high-tide line in order to hand the problem off to someone else."
@Andrew 48
>>The bar armour has nothing to do with stand-off distances or disrupting copper jets or anything like that. This is incorrect reporting that is sadly being perpetuated by the, normally pretty accurate, El Reg.
The bar armour has everything to do with stand-off. (See below).
>>The bars of the bar armour are spaced in such a way that the bars deactivate certain types of RPG fuse resulting in the warhead not being able to function, they can also deform the cone of the shaped charge prior to detonation.
The RPG fuse is a piezoelectric impact fuze, so the only way to "deactivate" the fuse is for the warhead to be jammed between two bars or be deflected from its previous flight path. Jamming the warhead between two bars is limited as the RPG warhead currently in use has an igniferous self-destruct, which, from memory will function 9 or 10 seconds after firing.
>>The stand-off distance for a shaped charge BTW is several feet or more, not the foot or so that the bar armour stands off at.
Bollocks. The RPG is designed so that its optimal stand-off distance is equal to the distance from the tip of the warhead to the front face of the cone.
Homage to...
A murderous psychopath.
What's next, Joseph Fritzl's kids advertising home improvements?
Personal opinion? My a**e!
This is more accurately called "testing the water". If there's not sufficient outcry then the Beeb will implement it.
Have broadband, pay BBC.
Well, we can't say we weren't warned
Robert Heinlein said:
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
@ GPS
"So they know where to find the body?"
Nope, just the phone.
RE: "six Earth hours"
What other type of hour is the author aware of?
@Sarah Bee
Would you like vaseline or valve grinding paste with that whupping?
Irony Alert?
"We don't have to pay for wind power - it just comes to us naturally,"
Ah the irony
I'll be looking for a refund for Sins of a Solar Empire then which totally hoses my machine.
If you say so
@Elmer
You may be right, but I have not got the time to wade through the Phud from amfM
The hardware isn't the problem...
it's the crappy modelling software
Re. Good idea
"Most of the admins I've ever dealt with were kind of "difficult". They need to learn to think like the users do and speak the language the users speak, as anyone should do for their customers"
Did it ever occur to you that the "difficulty" might be at your end?