I wouldn't bet on that just yet, Sparta is not in the greatest shape at the moment, my dad worked on the project and has been on partial pay for a while now because the new homeland security department has been more interested in spending money in DC than actually continuing existing contracts.
Yeah, it's so classified it's been shown on international TV. And it beats the heck out of the infantry way of doing things, digging mines up by hand with a wooden stick isn't my idea of fun. As for your other comments, you obviously have NO concept of the UCMJ, nor any experience in uniform. The folks that tend to join the military tend to be MORE conservative than the population in general, and have LESS sympathy for those accused of crimes, particularly against children. And most of the tactics used by defense lawyers to cloud the subject and get guilty defendants off are not allowed in military trials...
First off, a landmine is VERY easy to make, all a claymore 'mine' (it can be used as a mine or command detonated, in fact it is normally configured to be command detonated, you need to requisition additional materials to configure it as a mine). As for the bioweapons treaty, the ratification problem is that ANY facility which could potentially be used to produce such weapons would be subject to inspection, in violation of a number of provisions of the US Constitution (a friend is a chemical engineer working at a company that produces soap, but they COULD conceivably produce chemical or bio weapons... and he IS an Army Reservist in the Chemical Corps...). As for Iraq, they agreed to a set of conditions at the end of the Gulf War, including the destruction of their weapons of mass destruction and international inspections to verify compliance, if they didn't like the terms, they could have kept fighting. Not like I expect folks on/. to have more than a passing familiarity with reality outside of their silicon lives... And yes, I've been trained on how to use land mines, it's one of those weapons that infantry grunts sitting in the woods need, unless you like the folks protecting YOUR sorry ass dying for no good reason...
Why don't you learn the difference between low order and high order detonations before posting your ignorance publicly? This method reduces the amount of damage done when setting off the device, as it doesn't set it off in a manner that causes it to go high order. Military explosives are designed to be STABLE, they require a detonator to explode. You can burn C4 without problem, just don't apply pressure.
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I wouldn't bet on that just yet, Sparta is not in the greatest shape at the moment, my dad worked on the project and has been on partial pay for a while now because the new homeland security department has been more interested in spending money in DC than actually continuing existing contracts.
Yeah, it's so classified it's been shown on international TV. And it beats the heck out of the infantry way of doing things, digging mines up by hand with a wooden stick isn't my idea of fun. As for your other comments, you obviously have NO concept of the UCMJ, nor any experience in uniform. The folks that tend to join the military tend to be MORE conservative than the population in general, and have LESS sympathy for those accused of crimes, particularly against children. And most of the tactics used by defense lawyers to cloud the subject and get guilty defendants off are not allowed in military trials...
First off, a landmine is VERY easy to make, all a claymore 'mine' (it can be used as a mine or command detonated, in fact it is normally configured to be command detonated, you need to requisition additional materials to configure it as a mine). As for the bioweapons treaty, the ratification problem is that ANY facility which could potentially be used to produce such weapons would be subject to inspection, in violation of a number of provisions of the US Constitution (a friend is a chemical engineer working at a company that produces soap, but they COULD conceivably produce chemical or bio weapons... and he IS an Army Reservist in the Chemical Corps...). As for Iraq, they agreed to a set of conditions at the end of the Gulf War, including the destruction of their weapons of mass destruction and international inspections to verify compliance, if they didn't like the terms, they could have kept fighting. Not like I expect folks on /. to have more than a passing familiarity with reality outside of their silicon lives... And yes, I've been trained on how to use land mines, it's one of those weapons that infantry grunts sitting in the woods need, unless you like the folks protecting YOUR sorry ass dying for no good reason...
Why don't you learn the difference between low order and high order detonations before posting your ignorance publicly? This method reduces the amount of damage done when setting off the device, as it doesn't set it off in a manner that causes it to go high order. Military explosives are designed to be STABLE, they require a detonator to explode. You can burn C4 without problem, just don't apply pressure.