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From: ferguson@maitai.src.honeywell.com (Dennis Ferguson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Mines
Keywords: mines, WAM, antihelo
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Date: 28 Nov 89 04:34:59 GMT
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From: ferguson@maitai.src.honeywell.com (Dennis Ferguson)

In article <11730@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>>From:  Brian Ross (bxr307@coombs.anu.oz)
>>          There has been rather renaissance in mine warfare in 
>>the last ten years...
>
>Well, relatively speaking.  There is still a major problem in getting
>funding or support for mine warfare, best expressed by the standard
>comment on the subject:  "nobody ever got promoted for commanding a
>minefield".
>

I've been following the mine discussion for several days now and no one
has mentioned the 'renaissance' in *land* mine warfare with programs such
as Antihelo Mine and Wide Area Mine.  In both cases these are very significant
developments in mine warfare and may be the beginning of true autonomous
(ie robot) weapons.  The first has to be Tacit Rainbow which is a truly
mobile autonomous mine. 

Dennis


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