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US Army to Test Laser Based Mine Clearing Device
QueueEhGuy writes "Yahoo News is running a Reuters story indicating that the United States will soon be testing a laser which "will either explode or evaporate the explosives in the device which can be up to 250 yards away.." It's about time, I was starting to think that we'd never blow stuff up with light." New Scientist has another story, complete with nifty graphic. The Zeus homepage has a few pictures and specs.
As a canadian I am happy to see America finally taking some mine-clearing initiative seeing as most land-mines were planted by them. It's good to know they are working on clearing technology so less innocent civilians will have to lose their lives.
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"And even if it cleared all surface mines, that would still leave buried mines or others that had become covered by dust, sand or vegetation. " That is basically pointless, suface mines are the only things it can destroy, what about the all the other mines, what a waste of tax dollars. Anyways aren't land mines good for controlling the population size in 3rd world countries.