A clever little idea from the Metal Storm people: Instead of laying out minefields that tend to stay dangerous for decades afterwards, set up a multibarrelled robot mortar that peppers the area with sensors. When the sensors are tripped, the mortar fires a round (lethal or non-lethal) at it. Rules for submitting comments:
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Disadvantage: if you can get the mortar to give away its position (by tripping one of the virtual mines), you have a nice, juicy target for your own artillery. A virtual minefield will have several mortars, but you still only have to find one mine to get a bead on its fifteen friends. Mine-sweeping isn't going to be done by a guy with a metal detector any more, but maybe one of those re-issued Big Tracks, an observer and a rocket mortar.
ReplyDeleteRe-reading, it occurs to me that the minesweeper guy in the pack of green army dudes is going to become obsolete. On the other hand, I think those are still being molded with the old-style square helmets and Garand/BAR-era weapons, so this might not matter.
ReplyDeleteOn a not unrelated theme :-
ReplyDeleteMy driveway/garage have sensors to detect movement and turn on a bright outside light. A neighbour will sometimes complain about the brightness disturbing his sleep if the lamps go on too often.
Recently, we have been having snowstorms.
Guess what?