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Skriven 2006-01-16 07:36:18 av John Guillory (1:396/60)
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Ärende: Humvee Mods
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Any millitary folks out there?

In the news paper the other day, they mentioned the millitary making
modifications to the Humvee's in IRAQ....  They showed a boom on the
front end with chains hanging down to detinate bombs....

Now I and my friends where figuring that boom can't be more than
about 6-8 feet max, or the poor men wouldn't be able to turn the
street corners....  With only 6'-8' of range, if the humvee was
traveling at 50-60mph as some have been seen doing in some videos of
the trucks moving through the city, the men would by far be on top
of the bomb by the time they detinate it.... At 6'-8' traveling at
as low as 15 mph, the men would still feel quite an impact from the
bomb exploding in front of their truck....  In fact, with the new
metal roof additions they made, they could flip the humvee over and
trap themselves into the vehichle, causing them to have less chances
of survival than if they had no roof...  A better thought would have
been to make a 2-part boom that splits in the middle and setup with
an electric wench and a boom going straight up with a
block-and-tackle setup to raise the middle of the boom up, bringing
the far outside of the boom inward, allowing you to realistically
add a 20' boom or greater that folds up to the truck when turning
curves....  Unfortiantly, this would mean that the most likely place
to find bombs would be at the beginning of street corners.  To
circumvent this, the humvee would then have to drive to the far
outside edge of the intersection, start turning while bringing in
the boom, line its vehichle up with the street, lower the boom back
out, then proceed once the boom is fully extended....  Doing this
would effectively cause the poor soldiers to take 3 months to go
from one end of the city to the other....  A quicker solution would
be to randomly drop pellets of some sort out of planes, causing
nearly every bomb to detinate, but doing so would mean all citizens
and army personel would have to get inside protective buildings
during the time of the drops, otherwise no matter what size the
pellets, the people would surely die if one hit them from a cople of
thousand feet or so....

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