the PFM-1 is just evil, its basically perfectly designed to kill children, it even look like a toy.

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​@@theonlyalan731They're saying the person that took the seeds which sñowly fall after deployment, and turning them into weapons, is a real bastard.

I mean, from an practical and efficiency side, it’s a pretty good idea. And their probably pretty cheap to produce as well. From an ethical side, maybe not, but at the end of the day, once war breaks out, ethnic goes out the window.

​@@MistikCoThat is a truism, but it doesn't apply here War didn't just "break out" in this case where Russia decided to steal land and use tactics suspiciously similar to the Soviet era genocide. And these weren't developed mid war. This was someone seeing post genocide demining efforts in Cambodia and in peacetime came up with a way to make it worse for innocent civilians after the war but not significantly more effective against soldiers.

If nothing else, it will help locate mine fields and their extents.

Only works for AT mines. Anti-personnel mines are significantly harder to detect.

@@stoyantodorov2133harder, but still different materials give different heat signatures

@@dakotareid1566 The problem is the size, not the material. Thermal cameras have much lower resolution, making it much harder to see details (unless you fly very low, meaning you cover a much smaller area). But that's no even the main issue. If an object is ambient temperature you don't see it on a thermal image. And small objects like anti personal mines are at ambient temperature pretty much immediately after a temperature change.

@@superdauI mean, you’re correct on half of this. However, the material construction matters a lot for thermal detection. And plastic has very low emissivity, making thermal detection difficult. Add to that the fact that they also have low mass (as you mentioned) and thermal detection of anti personnel mines is a nightmare.

US used and the Ukrainians are using Cluster munitions which are much worse and far more

just lands? that happened to my cousins. after they abandoned their home in the libyan civil war. the vagner put a trap in the house in the water well. it exploded on my cousins and injured 2 badly and the 3ed got small scratches because he was far. and lucky he was far because he was the one who took them to the hospital. imagine going to your home your bed or bathroom and one of these things is there. i am against the use of anything like that no matter the reason. it will effect the Innocent more than anyone. especially the children

@@lukmanalghdamsi3189 Lol as if thats supposed to be even close to almost the entirety of Vietnamese and laos village filled with hundreds of millions of small cluster munitions filling the entire countryside killing anyone who even dred to step in their homes backyard forget farms etc Over 300,000 were killed in laos and that's not counting the victims of agent orange( biological weapons) among the at least a million victims of vietnam war And if you think that's not even close to s bad you might wanna check out about the Pakistani genocide of 1971 (bankrolled by USA) or in India the Kashmir Hindu exodus of 1990 Its better to be dead than endure that

@@sanskar9679 Why are you making this a trauma competition

@@sanskar9679 agent orange is a chemical weapon fwiw

I wasn't aware of any intervention by the USMC in Isla Calero. Do you have an article or other resource you could point to for more information?

... why don't you have a military? Did your country learn anything from that?

@@johnflux1 consequence of civil war and deployment of military against the civilian population, among other things.

@@johnflux1 No military to throw a coup=democracy for over 70 years, in South America. Sounds like a worthy tradeoff to me.

@@johnflux1 Maybe you should learn some history buddy.

WW2 too. In France, you can find trucks who felled (military bridge) in rivers with their loads (ammo...)

Some part of Nord and Pas-de-Calais still have water polluted by nitrate but the level are not dangerous for adult (those sources are not used usually) and still have some buried bombs. A year ago, they find one in an important train maintenance workshop and they had to evacuate the zone temporarily for removing it

There's still white phosphorus being washed up in the baltic and north sea from all the munitions being dumped in there.

​@@odindimartino597After world war two, the allies dumped millions of tons of ammunition into the sea, right off the german coast. That was a problem for the future but that future is almost now. All those metal casings have been rotting away for 70 years and will start to release their content. They even dumped chemical weapons.

In WWI a much higher percentage of artillery shells were duds than in later wars.

Also the other plastic mines created to be hard for metal detectors to detect.

Im fairly certain that all use of mines has to be documented like how many of what type are in what area. Plastic mines are also illegal as far as I know. You can use mines in war but it has to be documented and also METAL mines. More modern mines can be remote detonated or turned off so that they become safe for later clearing or friendly troops to pass by them.

A lot of mines are delivered via artillery now and both Ukraine and Russia are using them in large numbers. It's the thing about war, there is no such thing as good vs bad, just bad vs worse. Wars are rarely about what's in the interest of the people, they are almost always about power and control of those in charge.

@@nucleus691 For an unrelated project I recently read the declassified U.S manual on mine use and its pretty clear that documenting where you put your mines is secondary to their movement restriction. The manual explicitly states to remove markers if a field is going to end up in enemy control, and that mines moving from their last known location is a known and acceptable risk. In the case of air deployed, artilery deployed, or other remote mine deployment (the manual focused on the VOLCANO system) you cannot possibly know where your mines are beyond circling an area on the map and saying "Here" which isn't very helpful when it comes to demining operations. While russia doesn't use them, its also worth noting that chemical mines exist and are still used in some nations, the U.S manual covered their use and markings which is somewhat interesting. UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) is another very real risk that ukraine is going to have to deal with, as both U.S given cluster munitions and russian cluster munitions turn into defacto landmines with each fired, as some of the bomblettes don't always detonate. Self-defusing mines such as the ones the U.S cited their use of also can fail, but its once again deemed worth the risk for their wartime utility.

The most fucked version I've heard of were some of those helicopter mines being made out of red plastic, the goal being enticing children to pick them up.

Defusing explosives is a tough job. There's some footage from Afghanistan where you see people literally hug IEDs made from Soviet artillery shells becaused they'd rather be reliably vaporized than be maimed and have to live on with that.

@@hammerth1421 I don't doubt it whatsoever. Was thinking the same thing on the clip of the guy laying with his top face-half in line of sight of the mine he was disarming, even though it might have been in a training exercise. I would be absolutely shitting myself, even in a training exercise with a mine I knew wouldn't maim me, or best case scenario, instantly kill me.

I used to work with a woman whose husband died disarming unexploded ordinance. It wasn't in a war zone, it was a military training ground in New Zealand. It was a messed up story where he recommended that it be remote detonated due to its current condition, but he was ordered to go back in and disarm it.

the small ones are the scary ones. The larger ones are anti-tank so you don't have to be as careful with them since they're specifically meant to not go off from just personnel. The small ones are far more sensitive and harder to find...

​@@sage5296except after war is over those anti-tank mines will be triggered by regular cars.

Khmer Rouge er? Huh?

😂😂 and you are living in new york, right?

@@bprogressive i live in tripoli libya. but if so. what is funny? this video is not meant to be funny

Russia should be illegal.

​@@bprogressiveWhat's so funny? Hit your head or something? Drunk?

@@bprogressiveThat’s a real piece of shit comment.

It's not horrifying, your brain has just been rotted with anti-Western propaganda.

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Nothing strange. Nobody will mention cluster munitions here as well. And they are basically mines.

Could be a weird translation thing.

Then add to that there's the Iron Harvest in northeast France and Belgium, where farmers regularly find themselves digging up unexploded ordnance, and bring it to the side of the road to be disposed of.

here's the point of this being mine centric....yes all those others CAN do that, mines will regardless, they are made to. it's not an odds game like everything else you mentioned. lets just use random numbers, say 10 thousand artillery shells are fired but only 8 thousand went boom immediately, the remaining 2 thousand would randomly detonate over the next say 50 years and because tracking what shells go boom and which dont is impossible for even one artillery battery much less hundreds,plus the innacuracy of normal artillery and locating them without tech and luck plus time is impossible. now take 10 thousand mines, most are placed in certain areas and depending may have more extensive records taken, all 10 thousand are guaranteed deadly untill disposed of, but finding and knowing the risk is significantly simpler vs other things. there's more but im to tired to remember.

why is that the real tragedy lol

@@bloodlove93 can artillery shells explode spontaneously though? I thoughts that maybe due to the environment, these shells would simply become a dud with no possible way of exploding, but I could be wrong.

I seriously hope this greatly advances and helps them a ton with this awful problem. I hope Ukraine can get a ton of donated help in the form of these thermal technologies

From my understanding even with more advanced infrared technologies there are some serious limits. Smaller mines can still be hard to detect both because they return to ambient temperature quicker and because infrared cameras have inherently lower resolution compared to standard visible light cameras. Infrared light has longer wavelengths so the pixels in the sensor have to be larger than the pixels of a standard camera. Mines that are buried deeper under ground can also pose a problem as they won't be as affected by the temperature changes. I'm sure the drones will still help quite a bit though.

I read a paper showing that thermal cameras were capable detect even larger mines near the ground at close distances due to temperature differences of soil poured on them while Ukraine is known to use drones with thermal sight to detect large mines that are just left on the ground but smaller mines and mines designed for reduced IR signature will be an issue that will be hard to deal with by thermal vision... Cancelled Future Combat System's rapid deployment hybrid vehicles which promo videos you can watch on the internet had shown intent to connect vehicle's sensors to object recognition software for automated IED detection, something which Ukraine trying today but I am fairly skeptical that this would solve much because countermeasures to fool computer object recognition can be easily implemented even by kids, though they will reduce speed with which current mines can be effectively deployed on masses... There are being developed foliage penetrating radars to deal with guerrilla forces in jungles, so some kind of phased array radar of sufficient power working on a wavelength that would be capable of penetrating upper layers of soil yet with enough resolution to recognize most of the mines is likely to be employed on drones in the near future because there is quite a demand for such thing in these days around the world, and it is something that may be interesting to develop (with help from Western subcontractors) even by civilian drone start-up from Ukraine that may not be interested in the production of killing machines, yet may be waste of human potential to use people capable to develop such game changer for frontline service when they may be more valuable for war effort by sticking to their area of expertise. The unfortunate reality is, that mines already got a head start in the form of a counter, as most modern mines did not wait until somebody steps upon them but work as compact hard to spot fixed autonomous drones capable send alarms when they detect the target and attack it with a ranged weapon like a grenade or guided missile launcher, which also means that some of these are fully capable attack even low flying aircraft like drones and helicopters and with solar power battery re-charging and high grass may be quite pain to deal with considering that they can report enemy contacts back to the enemy that can send curious cats some arty barrage welcome party.

Glory to Ukraine! Keep defending the truth!

He inspired me to also donate to the Halo trust. I hope the best for your people. Slava Ukrayini.

@@Wonders_of_Reality Ukraine is a garbage liberal place which is the only reason our country is defending them

It's going to take 750 years and Russia will definitely be the one doing most of it after a year.

The reconstruction of Ukraine will take decades. Demining, too. It took 30 years to clear mines from most villages and farming areas in Cambodia but forgotten minefields still lurk in fields and in the jungle.

Just read " OPERATION BARREL ROLL " on wikipedia and you wont thank USA ever again. It dropped 260 million bombs on LAOS over a period of 9 years, the most heavily bombed country till today. Out of which 80 million bombs left unexploded from which 20,000 people have died or injured and are dying every year as we speak from those leftover bombs.

It's going to take 750 years and Russia will definitely be the one doing most of it after a year.

mostly they are found when digging fundaments or similar, we seem to have accepted the existence of the stuff in DE and don´t actively seek it. Near my hometown Augsburg 25000 (iirc) had to be evacuated when a big one was found.

One silver lining is the bombs used in the 2nd world war dug them self deep so that’s the reason why they are so difficult to find mines are rarely more than 6”deep so they can with a lot of work been mostly completely removed

the problem is giving vision to a robot to find a plastic death toy who can or not be buried on the ground without any further clues

@@giovane_Diaz That is a hard. However, you don't necessarily need to even search for them with vision. Like the flails, you can design a robot so it triggers any it passes over. This means the engineer can focus on it covering a large area with limited human interaction. Searching for deep mines can be a secondary step with specialized equipment.

@@squarewheels2491 The problem is, then a mine is designed that has a delay, so that when a tank or deminer rolls over it, it instead explodes as the main part of the vehicle passes over it, thereby being much more likely to kill the vehicle and the crew. (These already exist and are being used in Ukraine atm)

You either watch too many sci fi movies or play too many military video games. The things you are speaking about are over the top. 😂😂

Theoretically - yeah. Practically - we kinda have "perfect" mine searches - dogs, rats, etc. Some may say this is animal cruelty. Maybe. But i say that those animals can save life of thousands other animals, including humans.

In Ukraine, we have WW2 mines as well( before 2022 every year someone got injured/killed but yeah, that was nothing compared to the current situation with mines(

Ukrainian’s are always Clever 🇺🇦:)

And this video mentioning the US mostly as an anti-Mine researcher is a shill for the US military industrial complex

Russia started using them 1st, whats your point? Russia is the one that has majorly used landmines. And if the Ukrainians deploy mines, they have their own mines their own engineers can clear them.

​@@tomcluny8423I guess the opposite... Russia is defending occupied territories for about a year, before that there were attempts to continue offensive, so there were no need to use mines And yes, now Russian just fills with mines everything...

I’m so sorry what muscovy has done to Your country this is deeply depressing.

​@@ssg9officalAfter over a year of constant air-raid sirens I'm now scared of even mildly loud noises and buzzing. Today someone was using lawn mower and I thought it was yet another kamikaze drone...

@@Serhii_Diemientieiev This is devastating and heartbreaking to hear putin and russia must pay for the suffering and trauma they caused.

@@Serhii_Diemientieiev 🤣

@@ftk2589 Wow, I can't live a normal life anymore. How funny.

Only works if the mine isnt underground

Yes, drones seem like a good way of clearing mines. Equipping them with ground penetrating radar should be fairly cheap and help spot more mines.

They even had 100% glass mines

this will probably be learned at school and kindergarten in Ukraine beside the regular stuff, sad reality but necessary. Small children not yet in any institution or clueless are forever endangerd. I hope russia will be punished ....

​@@thingamabob3902Yes it is. Saddest thing that at some point we think about this: "This won't happen with me/classmates." That actually scares me. *We got used to something we should have never ever get used to* And pussia... It won't be really punished. Unfortunately. Just yet again regime change, new name, tada, no consequences whatsoever

This is a Russian imperialistic war against Ukraine, please call it correctly

They should take every single one of those mines that their "neighbor" placed in their country, dig it up, and relocate it to some field in the neighboring country. Maybe if farmers there suddenly started to go boom, someone would wake up and think twice about littering in their country

Oh well. This war would have been over before it began, if Zelensky didn't tease Russia with joining NATO, now wouldn't it?

@@TheRealBillBob Dude that comment is a bit silly. First of all, you dont get to attack your neighbor if he decides to join a club that you dislike. Second, Ukraine was nowhere near to being a member of NATO. I would even argue that the chance of them to be able to join NATO has increased significantly because of the attack on them.

​@@TheRealBillBobUkraine was neutral by Constitution before Moscow invaded in 2014, occupied Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, killed thousands. You claim we "would be safer if we don't call police".

This comment has reminded me that I'm behind on creating random shit, time to boot up fusion 360

Big metal mines also a glowing in IR spectrum, but smaller with plastic case not so strong

lower wave lengths might have a better shot at piercing the ground and detect patterns common specifically for mines, but they need to be closer to the ground to be reliable as far as I can tell. almost like a hovering drone model just grazing the land

Works like one too

Kinda yes. Kinda not. What you mentioned, isn't cheap. Not *that* expensive but still. There may be *millions* of mines just in single field. Even at near perfect conditions, its going to take weeks, months or even years to demine.

Good luck out there friend.

o7

Cool story. Russia is laying antipersonnel mines all over the place and has fired millions of mortars, artillery and autocannon rounds wherever they go. LOTS of UXOs. Cluster bomb duds are mostly irrelevant.

the US was responsible for a hell of a lot of this in Vietnam and Laos

@@gloverelaxisyep

Worse if your cluster munitions have a high dud rate, such as... 30% or so in some cases for russian munitions.

​@@Destroyer_V0 And all that shit only because of some moron Putin has a Napoleon complex. All of the excuses he brings are inferior to what the reality is - he wants more land for his tiny country. Everything else is hubris. Putin wants himself a big statue like his long dead predecessors.

PFM-1 carried by crows in Kharkiv region

It mines were easy to detect, then they would be practically useless on the battlefield. Second, not every military has the necessary tools to demine, especially when they are being bombarded by enemy fire. Then the effect of demining falls to 0%. You shouldn't comment on things you are clueless about. 🙄🙄

Naive. Plastic mines are lighter = easier to transport = better logistics. Remotely deployable mines are have to be light so you can shoot them further. Plastic doesnt rust. you don't need to worry that your minefield will disintegrate on its own. Plastic mines DO slow down demining process for your enemy, since there are plenty of situations where you can't bring heavy demining equipment.

27 likes for this? lol

Military History Visualized just did a video about this. Anti-mine vehicles have a lot of weaknesses, and when you are on the front lines, you can't afford to stand out too much, especially with how surveillance drones are everywhere and there are thousands of artillery pieces just waiting for a target. Even in Western modern MBT chassis vehicles that are designed for much higher crew survival rates compared to Soviet and Russian designs, you don't want to catch an artillery barrage or an anti-tank RPG. In an all out large scale war, the only thing that matters is the return on investment. Plastic is cheap to use, so it's going to be used. Human lives are just another resource like anything else. Modern Western armor tends to favor crew survivability because a well trained and experienced crew is worth a lot due to thier effectiveness and efficiency. Russia isn't exactly in the game to win the hearts and minds of others, so they don't really think about the long term cost of cheaping out in the short term. What sheltered lives many people live to forget that human lives have an actual value when you peel back the veil of societal norms.

9 years

It's really amazing the naivety of people who think you can stop something by "banning" it.

@@steven-el3sw exactly cause who tha hell is gonna enforce it?

@@steven-el3sw Most of the countries of the world have agreed to the ban on antipersonnel mines, and the US's specific reservation allowing for their use is only for Korea. Outside of that theater, the US does not use antipersonnel mines. It seems that's somewhat effective, if it can get one of the world's great powers to mostly stop using them?

@@VioIetShift don't be naive. The us doesn't use Anti-Personnel mines because they don't need to. I guarantee you if they got into a fight with a near peer, and it got even a little desperate the mines, gas, napalm and every other warcrime will fly.

@@VioIetShift You make a valid point although I would respectfully counter that your conclusion is not without its qualifications: *somewhat* effective, only *one* of the great powers, *mostly* stop using them. Not exactly a slam dunk as to the effectiveness of bans. Furthermore, I would argue the use of mines represents a classic case of "the prisoner's dilemma" where the only "rational" course of action is to defect from the ban and use them. As OP pointed out, they're just too effective to not be utilised. At any rate, considering we are most likely headed for some WW3-type global conflict (think Ukraine, Gaza), I guess we won't have to wait too long to see if the ban on landmines works or not.

The problem isn't having the technology for cearing an open field. Mine flails can do that quite effectively and reasonably fast. It's mostly a question of ressources and their allocation. Once you found an open field to be contaminated, you can "just" call in a flail and plow the field from one end to the other. Problem here is scale. There's so many square kilomteres of fields that COULD be contaminated and just so many flails or rollers - and especialy personel to operate them. So you first have to identyfiy the contaminated ares, as there's just too many fields and not enough clearing ressources to just plow every field as a matter of cause. At lest not in the short run. The other problem comes with rougher terrain. Most of those area-clearing systems just don't work in forrests, rocky terrian, or built-up areas.

another problem is that however thick you make it, some mines employ HEAT shaped charges and those charges can penetrate 500mm and more of armor grade steel. So after a certain time your massive mine roller will be deformed and pitted with holes making it either unreliable or blocks movement. The smaller mine rollers share the same fate but are quickly replaced.

How are you going to transport a piece of solid steel the size of a house from place to place?

US used and the Ukrainians are using Cluster munitions which are much worse and far more

You will NEVER get Crimea back. It's rightfully Russian

unfortunate truth, I agree... There's no better way to control a piece of land when it comes to cost in manpower and munitions. At least newer AP mines are designed to disarm themselves after a period of time. For the USA it's not more than 30 days OR they must be able to be disarmed remotely.

That's horrible and sadistic. But also level headed as an explanation.

US used and the Ukrainians are using Cluster munitions which are much worse and far more

That would be a world without humanity

​@@icantthinkofaname4265 you really can't imagine a world where people are kind towards each other? instead of destructive?

Well, many technological advancements are a result of war or the preparation of war. So, a world without war, is one that might have technological stagnation or at the very least, one that is a bit less technologically advanced as our current world. As for the helicopter death mines, ignoring ethnics, they are pretty cost efficient and easy to produce and spread, in other words a very efficient weapon. And in war, efficiency is all that matters for a weapon.

@@WillDa713We already live in a world where people are kind to each other, they just aren’t ONLY kind to each other. In a world with Billions of humans with different motivations and goals with limited land and resources, conflicts will arise. Until perhaps the resources of space can be accessed, conflict on Earth will never disappear. Even if we did have unlimited land and resources, people would likely still find other reasons to fight.

goddamn

The problem with that is that it would only work on a completely flat terrain. You have to touch the surface venly everywhere and it's practically impossible.

@@Makrangoncias If it's heavy enough, that shouldn't be a huge problem, but also they could use alternating layers to it to give it some play.

did you ever hit one?

Russia as a nation has always been pure evil.

Tell me another joke.

well most professional armies will record the placement of minefields and the usage of explosive ordinance ... I doubt russia puts in the slightest effort to do that or simply doesn´t care and will never give information where they laid mines out of spite.

​@@thingamabob3902Sadly, but you definitely right.

Ukraine has signed the ban on anti-personnel mines though; anti-tank mines are far less problematic than anti-personnel mines. Would their defense of their country have been notably more effective if they hadn't agreed to the anti-personnel mine ban?

​@@VioIetShiftbit anyway they are using cluster munitions and ap mines

@@karaluv_ravenovich Cluster munitions yes - the ban on those was never that politically popular. The AP mines they use are command detonated Claymores or equivalents, which are not covered by the ban.

Unfortunately, not specialized vehicles would be and practically are destroyed with the first antitank mine that they found. Worse than that there's already several fatal incidents among farmers, why tries to demine their land driving the tractor.

@@vladyslavkarpenko9372 Speaking as a combat engineer who specialized in finding and destorying such things in actual combat..... "not specialized vehicles would be and practically are destroyed with the first antitank mine that they found." ......this is false. yes, a bad design will get destroyed, but a good design will not. A good design uses sacrificial elements extended off the front of the demining vehicle with a blast shield. We have used many experimental solutions in combat, and modified them, and even made our own in the field with success. don't underestimate a mechanically inclined farmer. Just becasue some people have died, doesn't mean it can't be done. How many of those farmers weren't trying to demine and were actually just trying to farm and hit a mine? those don't count as failed demining attempts.

@@SoloRenegade Thank you for clarifying your statement. The farmers that I had mentioned, engineered some minimal guard and not tried to de-mine just by wheels of the tractor itself, but made a mistake about their expectations of mine explosion power. That's a good idea to collaborate with real combat engineers, at least to check the farmer's idea. That will help to prevent fatal mistakes. P. S. Farmers who killed or get injured by mines during land work counted separately. I understand that this is the other situation.

It’s the same here to a lesser extent in london with unexploded bombs records were kept and all the bad ones were removed but they are always being found during construction

Allegedly Ukraine was the one deploying them the most, to the point the HRW was "urging Ukraine to probe its use of banned mines"

I believe the first versions of this were used by the Nazis. They have the same name.

Butterfly mines where originally american and got copied during the Vietnam war

@@noname-wo9yy Incorrect. World War 2 they were used by the Nazis against the Allies in Europe. World War 2 started 1933. The Vietnam war was in 1945. Where did you get this false information?

@heideknight9122 blu 43 dragon tooth. Wow it took a 10 second Google search.

ooh thats scary effective.

yep. 06/06/2023

PFM-1 mine wich was in video hast 7 day selfdestruction, but in not work everytime They using chemical reaction to self desrtruct themselfs

They would have to weight over 150kg each, how would you move them

Worse, lead itself is toxic and would be spread widely by any explosion. Still, your idea has merit, just don't use toxic elements for the casing.

@@EdwinWiles Then we could do Aluminum, but Aluminum has higher melting point, and also soft and malleable, and the water is what prevents the spread when the mine explodes, the disk breaks, the water spreads around. The malleability would prevent the spreading around.

i suggest contacting some Ukrainian officials, not UKposts comments. you'll probably get a lot further. assuming they want whatever you have vs everything they use,you'll find out only by asking them,but don't worry, considering all the begging and pleading they've done from day one im sure they'll accept it....if you pay shipping.

It is mandated. But we also mandate that they don't commit warcrimes but that doesn't seem to matter much. Definitely dosnt matter to the dictator in Moskow.

And how do you suggest we make that happen?

@@jukebox_heroperson3994 you dont have to have a solution to understand that there is a problem.

Not that many starcraft 2 players left XD

@@ralphwarom2514 I was hoping someone would understand my reference

You can't detect metal from those distances. You need to get the coil really close. I think light, ground-based robots are a good idea.

10 000 000 small peaces of metal like shell casings , link , fragmentation , bits of wire , metal packaging scattered around on the battlefield, oh and there are also 16 mines in their someplace

As you said you dont get it.

I am glad you came up with something that satisfies you. Sadly it does not satisfy their needs. Firstly a drone with propellers will make a lot of electrical noise and mess with a metal detector. Also ground is not flat and most drones do not have the ability to measure their distance from the ground. A ground based drone could work but they would be destroyed by anti personnel mines regularly.

Thank you for sharing that knowledge 🤝🏻

mythologizing and rewriting history has become a national hobby in Ukraine 😅😅

@@konradkarlovich5801 incorrect, it is the correction of what has been rewritten

@@vredacted3125 а про выкопанное Чёрное море не забыли правки внести ?🤣🤦🤡

@@vredacted3125, have you ever wondered why no one knows about this except Ukrainian unofficial historians aka “science” freaks? No one in the world talks about this or tries to achieve the truth. Don't you think that if everyone around you is wrong and you know the truth, then it's like a conspiracy theory? For your one example, there are ten counterexamples. Another strange detail is that these “great theories” began to spread on the Internet only after 14 and the start of the conflict; before that, everything was fine with everyone. Although most likely you are an ordinary Ukrainian bot and I wasted my time)

not ground disturbed yes radiation bouncing off harder objects

Lidar uses light which cannot penetrare ground.

oh realy@@dennispremoli7950 ok

I don’t think LiDAR has that kind of resolution

​@@Gvozd111yeah iirc you're right on that one. It's a blurred grey scale display that needs a technician to read it properly

Don't know about microwave frequency , but modern deminer trails definitely has some electromagnetic emitters to trigger mines that activated by electromagnetic sensors.

I think for demining there was not much effort or money put in the science. Cynically said who cared about cambodia or afghanistan. Maybe this time it will lead to a flood of new technology. Ive seen mentions of microwave application to detonate mines and AI controlled drones with magnetic sensor arrays to "do a roomba" over a field ... hope the "mine business" will flourish