American carmakers can’t produce a product that lasts will last longer than 5 years (long enough to pay it off) but we sure know how to build quality into munitions. These things have been around for 50+ years and are still “ticking”.
Surely, with all the advanced technology we have in the US, the ACOE would be able to use infra-red or some other remote sensing technology to locate these things from the air? I can’t believe the only method ACOE has is to resort to shovels, bulldozers and guesswork. Anyone out there know whether there’s a better way to find those bombs besides random digging?
It seems to me that the bombs would have gone off during the moving of dirt and building of the homes there. But they did
not apparently. Ultrisound or Sonar? (They use it in archeology to find buried artifact, and in geogology to find voids deep underground.) It probably would be cheaper. But most of these devices are limited in the width of field.
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American carmakers can’t produce a product that lasts will last longer than 5 years (long enough to pay it off) but we sure know how to build quality into munitions. These things have been around for 50+ years and are still “ticking”.
Instead of spending millions of dollars looking for a “bomb in a haystack”, turn a bunch of retirees loose with metal detectors.
The beauty of using retirees is that they’d never hear the explosion.
Surely, with all the advanced technology we have in the US, the ACOE would be able to use infra-red or some other remote sensing technology to locate these things from the air? I can’t believe the only method ACOE has is to resort to shovels, bulldozers and guesswork. Anyone out there know whether there’s a better way to find those bombs besides random digging?
It seems to me that the bombs would have gone off during the moving of dirt and building of the homes there. But they did
not apparently. Ultrisound or Sonar? (They use it in archeology to find buried artifact, and in geogology to find voids deep underground.) It probably would be cheaper. But most of these devices are limited in the width of field.