Flays are only useful against conventional buried mines and some magnetic mines. IED are wire/radio/cell phones
controlled and off set to the road.
But you are right if the suicide bomber comes head on.
(Should be neat to watch ---! Had a cat caught up one winter morning in the fan blades of a D-8 on a job site
I was on. UGH!)
Don't bust too hard on cats around here. It could get you the zot.