ROADSIDE BOMBS

ROADSIDE BOMBS:

I am no expert, but then I know nothing of roadside bombs other than they are being used against many soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq and just about anywhere where soldiers are employed against terrorists in the world today. In this year of 2008, I would have thought by now that research into explosives in general, used in no matter what capacity, scientists would have recognised that explosives must give off some kind of force field, either by scent from explosive content, or signal in some form from the electronic device inside the bomb that can be detected by a sensor of some form picking up on the small masses of explosives and devices, which must be in some way, detectable before their vehicles happen by and are thus destroyed...personnel included!

Arms manufacturers have been active since time immemorial in developing weaponry to such an extent that by virtue of what they develop, their armies fall prey to, then it goes to say they have perhaps spent too much time researching the extent of devastation they can deliver and exact from the weapons they develop, and have forgotten they must develop some form of defence mechanism to aid the safety of the troops using their weaponry...that makes sense...although war does not make sense at all, in any form. But nonetheless, why have they not developed a detection device for explosives in the form of roadside bombs? They are more prepared to send their men in blind and watch them being killed by these roadside explosive devices, rather than spend a little money on developing a sensor device. Why lose any personnel at all to such explosive devices? Why not develop a mechanism that will detect such devices long before their vehicles or foot soldiers arrive on such a scene where such bombs have been secreted for the purpose of disabling their vehicles and killing their personnel?

The British and American Defence Department should be actively engaged in research of such explosive detectors in aid of their troops upon which they rely to continue the suppression and eventual eradication of terrorists throughout the world. If a sniffer-dog can find such devices buried in the ground, it should not be too difficult for a research program to come up with a sensor device based upon that which it is, a sniffer-dog can smell...the device must emit some kind of a scent the dogs pick up on. The same device could be utilised in detecting suicide bombers with such bombs strapped to their body...does this not make any sense? I think it does make a lot of sense, just think how many peoples lives would be saved by developing and employing such a detection device!

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