[Ngo-lwg] Minehunting with radar and rats

Chuck Searcy chuckusvn at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 03:23:57 BST 2014


The article below is about mine action technologies being used in different
parts of the world.  The video embedded in the article highlights APOPO's
work in Africa, using trained rats to search for landmines.

A friend in the U.S. who sent this said he did not understand why there was
no mention of Vietnam, still one of the five most UXO contaminated
countries in the world.

Chuck



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*The Economist*
*Minehunting with radar and rats* Clearing landmines: Despite sophisticated
new technology many explosive devices are still cleared by hand with the
help of trained animals Jun 7th 2014 | From the print edition
<http://www.economist.com/printedition/2014-06-07>

   DURING a morning operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand
province in 2010, a British army contingent halted before a narrow pass
reckoned to be mined with improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The day
before, two of the unit's armoured vehicles had been destroyed nearby by
IEDs (the crews were uninjured). The commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Matt
Bazeley, fired a rocket that pulled 200 metres of a fat, coiled hose out
over the route ahead. Packed with about 1.5 tonnes of explosives, it
detonated upon landing with such a force that the shock wave was felt at a
command centre 13km (8 miles) away.

[read more]
<http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603239-clearing-landmines-despite-sophisticated-new-technology-many-explosive-devices-are>


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