Posted on 03/17/2010 10:32:26 AM PDT by Strategy
The US military is looking for help in building a robotic subterranean mole-craft, intended to deliver burrowing kamikazes strikes against underground bunker complexes and suchlike.
This news comes to us courtesy of a US government request for information, flagged up by the excellent Ares blog, in which the Defense Threat Reduction Agency - charged with reducing threats from enemy nuclear arsenals and so forth by whatever means come to hand - seeks help in building a "Robotic Underground Munition", or RUM.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
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True enough. But this will take a while to develop, hopefully by then, we will have a real president.
We could bring Iran to its knees by reactivating a couple hundred B52s (fit with new engines) and spray pig blood all over the Moslem hotbeds. Their stupid superstition, not ours. :’) Thanks wildbill.
Or simply spread radioactive belts around their nuclear sites as a no-go zone. Nuclear scientists are hard to replace in the Muslim world.
General MacArthur once recommended something similar across the Korean peninsula at the border with China to keep the Chinese out and away from our troops.
How Does the Army mole deals with the extreme pressures and heat while digging into the earth?
Inside the earth going 600-700 kilometers below the surface - 2,500 degrees Celsius and nearly 4 million pounds per square inch, or a quarter of a million times atmospheric pressure.
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