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From: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Blasting Sadam's Bunker(s)
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.052927.10010@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 05:29:27 GMT
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From: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny)

In article <1991Feb15.073631.12702@cbnews.att.com> anonymous@hpwrce.HP.COM writes:
>A co-worker and I would like your opinion of our idea for destroying Sadam's
>underground bunker(s).

I have another idea for going after bunkers. How about training
some sort of animal to climb down airshafts? Say you have a platoon
of trained monkeys, each with an explosive vest set to go off when the 
little guy gets below ground? (I'm not sure how to manage that. Perhaps 
you could put a radio receiver on it that would listen for a beep from 
a geostationary satellite.  If it misses N consecutive beeps, it 
fuzes the satchel charge in the monkey's vest.)

Then you load your monkeys into a container and parachute it next to
a bunker. All the hostiles are hiding in the bunker during the air
raid anyway, so nobody is topside to guard against the little guys
clambering out of the container and down the airshaft.

To motivate your troops, you could prepare the target by sending
in an F-117A to drop a laser-guided bunch of bananas down the airshaft. 
:-) (Then again, if you could drop bananas down the airshaft, you 
probably could just put a bomb down it and forget about the monkeys.
Ah well.)

But seriously, folks, is anybody working on robot crawlers that can
work their way into targets that are hard to hit directly from the
air? How about a mechanical tarantula that carries a bomblet,
survives an airdrop, hides in the weeds, and then crawls around at 
night looking for parked aircraft? A few thousand of these dropped 
around an airbase would make life very interesting for the next few 
days.


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Dan Mocsny				
Internet: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu