The M2A4 15 lb shaped charge and the M3A1 40 lb shaped charge can be placed upside down in a hole in the road and rigged for command detonation. They can also be placed on their side with sand bags and angled to direct their blast (15 lb 10 feet) (40 lb 20 feet). You can not stop a truck with small arms even if you hit the steer tires. Remember the Marines in Beirut and the 9, 82nd Airborne troops north of Bagdahd.
2007-05-03 07:15:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Natsugusa, your CFLCCROEs and TTPs will be of great comfort to the 9 dead 82nd trooper's family's. As an ex-engineer and trucker, I now how to stop a truck. One shaped charge is not a minefield, just like a claymore and if the damn driver will not stop and wants to get into your area , what is the life of one of your troops worth?
2007-05-03 10:49:50 · update #1
Its a good idea if used properly.Remember you only get one chance make sure its not friendly contractors and the vehicle is in the kill zone.
2007-05-03 07:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by blackwater 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't stopping a bomb with another bomb kind of pointless? I mean, if I want to stop a bomb, that means I want to prevent an explosion, right? So why would I cause an explosion to prevent an explosion?
In anycase, how do you know which truck has a bomb in it? The whole point of hiding bombs in trucks is so that you don't know a bomb is there or not. You cant very well go around blowing up every truck just because it might have a bomb in it.
Moreover, why just stop truck bombs? I understand that car bombs can be just as lethal. The same with bombs strapped to children and pregnant women (which I hear is done). Am I to understand that we should blow up everything that could potentially have a bomb hidden on it, to include women and children and dudes walking around?
In all, I fail to see how using our own IEDs would be effective in stopping truck bombs or any other kind of bomb.
2007-05-03 07:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by kittiesandsparklelythings 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
(1) If you emplace mines, you have to map their location, and constantly monitor if they've been tampered with or no. If you have a command-detonated piece of ordnance out there, you have to watch it (never mind needing to ground it so random static doesn't set it off). Engineers are pretty busy people. They don't need more tasks added to their workload, especially if said task is retarded and makes no sense.
(2) Controlled RSPs by EOD aside, using explosives to detonate a vehicle potentially packed with explosives is STUPID. Would YOU as your first escalation of force measure attempt to stop an incoming VBIED by shooting it with a SMAW-D or AT-4 in a residential neighborhood? If you would, you either missed every CFLCC ROE brief given to you, or you are HOPELESS.
From personal experience, a combination of various defensive measures (detail omitted to not reveal TTPs) WORKS FINE.
2007-05-03 08:56:50 · answer #3 · answered by Nat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nicely, purely imagine . you're the first man or woman to go back up with that theory. i'm surely happy you probably did. i recognize the defense force are going to revise there techniques once they listen about this. purely imagine, no extra IEDs and all our vehicles are possibility-free. purely one mission. Did you ever attempt to emphasize on sand? in case you probably did not get stuck, you actually discovered out that you may want to no longer bypass very quick. you would likely wander off too because once you purely see sand in each and every course it really is confusing to discover your way.
2016-11-24 23:31:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US doesn't need improvised explosive devices, since they can buy factory direct purpose made ones. Terrorists generally can't, hence the term "improvised". So hopefully, to answer your question, US troops will not ever use IEDs to stop truck bombs.
2007-05-03 07:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because simply disabling the engine with heavy weapons fire does the job just fine - and has a chance of leaving survivors if you were wrong and it was not a bomb.
2007-05-03 08:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Using IEDs, which are essentially land mines, to stop truck bombs seems a little overkill.
2007-05-03 07:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tactically, this does not seem to make sense as a potential course of action against a truck bomb.
2007-05-03 08:16:51 · answer #8 · answered by Robert N 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The U.S. and the UK already has barriers that can put a truck in the dirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD-Bbd2mavc
http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/clips/unbreakable-the-terrorist-truck-vs-the-steel-pole-196359.php
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966783/posts
2007-05-03 09:27:56 · answer #9 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a ban on land mines.
Didn't you hear that?
2007-05-03 07:39:23 · answer #10 · answered by Deathbunny 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋