Roadside Bombs
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When you place the bomb you start a phone call to the device. This leaves it in the armed state. If you put the hone down or someone jams the signal the thing goes off. Assuming that the only people with jamming devices are soldiers and that the network is pretty solid (this may be a problem) this would have the advantage that the bomb would go off when troops got within a certain distance. For a slightly more high tech response you could detect the jammer and then the device would detonate when a military jamming vehicle went past.
Russell Jones wrote:
When you place the bomb you start a phone call to the device
How long? Till some surveilance vehicle passes by?!?! I would think that these kind of people would simply be using the signal going to the speaker so that when the phone receives a call the speaker signal voltage trigers the payload.
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Had an idea in bed last night. If most roadside bombs are detonated by Mobile/Cell phones why not give the troops cell phone jammers whilst out on patrol?
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everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up. :suss:
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everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up. :suss:
Robert Surtees wrote:
everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up.
and should expect a call from their respective secret service agency :suss:
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Because the moment you do that someone will trigger the bomb by waiting for the phone signal to be jammed.
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everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up. :suss:
If I was at school now and did half the things I did at school all those years ago I'd be firmly locked up in Guantanamo for sure. These days the kids can't even play conkers without safety specs! I'm not sure how the aluminium tube based rocket with the "slightly faster burning than expected" propellant would go down.
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Had an idea in bed last night. If most roadside bombs are detonated by Mobile/Cell phones why not give the troops cell phone jammers whilst out on patrol?
Software Kinetics (requires SL3 beta) - Moving software
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everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up. :suss:
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If I was at school now and did half the things I did at school all those years ago I'd be firmly locked up in Guantanamo for sure. These days the kids can't even play conkers without safety specs! I'm not sure how the aluminium tube based rocket with the "slightly faster burning than expected" propellant would go down.
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Russell Jones wrote:
I'm not sure how the aluminium tube based rocket with the "slightly faster burning than expected" propellant would go down
That only happens when you point it in the wrong direction ;P
Our implementation of the concept went in pretty much every direction. I don't think the direction that it was pointed in would have mad a great deal of difference
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Had an idea in bed last night. If most roadside bombs are detonated by Mobile/Cell phones why not give the troops cell phone jammers whilst out on patrol?
Software Kinetics (requires SL3 beta) - Moving software
Hi Norm, The insurgents in southern Thailand (the Yawi speaking Muslim Malay inhabitants in the provinces that once made up the old Malay Sultanate of Pattani which has been under Thai control for over 200 years) have switched to using walkie-talkies[^] to detonate their bombs after the Thai military frequently disconnected cell phone service, and after a program of forced registration of buying of prepaid sim cards was imposed. best, Bill
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Had an idea in bed last night. If most roadside bombs are detonated by Mobile/Cell phones why not give the troops cell phone jammers whilst out on patrol?
Software Kinetics (requires SL3 beta) - Moving software
AFAIK they haven't been for several years. After we started using EW birds to mass dial every cell in range, blowing up a few bomb shops in the process, most of the bombers went back to old fashioned garage door opener (Line of sight IR) or hard wired remotes that weren't spoofable.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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OK, OK, I get it ;-) I'm glad you guys are not the ones building the bombs. I guess.
Be very glad, programmers are lazy and hate to do things twice. Roadside bombs are inefficient and have to be repeated. It's not really a process we'd like to see 'optimized' though.
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everybody in this thread knows far too much about blowing things up. :suss:
Any problem can be solved with the proper application of explosives.
Robert Surtees wrote:
knows far too much about
How can you know too much about blowing things up?
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.