Re: Mine Probing
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:00:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Mine Probing
--- Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Not just mines, last I heard IPDMS rounds have
> enough of a failure
> rate on the detonators that the zones that they've
> covered are
> considered danger areas.
Can't say much more, but that statement is true. The
failure rate is not 0% and US operational maps in
Kosovo have big no-go areas marked where the USAF
dropped a LOT of cluster munitions.
John
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