bomb strapped to motorcycle explodes in defusal technicians face

Pump those points into science my friend. Always the best option.

from my understand it was more so your body is preserved when you die and you can have an open casket funeral. when bombs get that big there's no saving you but they can at least give you body back to the family whole instead of in pieces

Yes with a old veitnam era mind🤣

If the device can be safely detonated or transported, that's the first choice. When that's not feasible, such as here, you typically have to use a human. Robots are mostly used to observe, transport and deliver a detonation charge.

Interestingly, UXOs (unexploded ordnance) are typically very safe (depending on the status of the fuze/detonator) and will usually detonate only if actively triggered. I've held a handful of raw, unwrapped TNT in my hand from the inside of a 155 mm shell. It's extremely poisonous, but won't explode unless you tell it to.

That big of an explosion would not be impacted by a lead box. It might be able to be buried in a box to dampen it but setting them off should be avoided at all cost. Even bullet proof glass would be very little impact to the shock wave close to it. Perhaps evacuating the area and having gear to absorb shrapnel might have some positive effects. There's a reason why we've moved to robots.

Honestly this is a horrible job to have.

No unfortunately the ieds we were finding there ranged anywhere from 50 to 500 pounds of explosives

I mean it's gonna explode anyway, better reparing damages than risking human lives.

Maybe it's to keep the body together for burial purposes? Like the seat belts on airplanes?

As you know, this is the right answer. To add some nuance, most military explosive devices and ordnance use fragmentation (rather than blast/shockwave) as the primary kill/wound mechanism, and EOD suits are very effective against fragments. Furthermore, anti-personnel land mines, which are the primary threat in a peer conflict, and primarily designed to wound rather than kill and an EOD suit provides effective protection.

Perhaps most obviously, an EOD suit drastically reduces the effective kill radius of an explosion.

The level of retarded reddit neckbeard armchair civilian idiocy is through the roof on this post, glad to see there are at least some sensible people around.

This. A bomb suit might just save your life...

Is anyone really gonna fuck with an IED without one if they have the option? No. That's above your pay grade.

Why else do you wear fucking armor if its not to save or protect you from something you make no sense and read over my comment i didn’t just say “ armor didn’t protect from boom it useless” i was wondering why if you can preform maneuvers without it faster and better and with the suit you aren't even guaranteed survival so it seems pointless like if a gasmask only worked 50% of the time why even prepare one

Yes lawnmower technique does seem suspect but maybe there’s a method to this man’s madness. I’d conjecture that once you figure out how to disarm the bomb, you’d better be quick about it. Otherwise the bomb will explode before you finish the process of disarming it. Obviously something went wrong for our man here, but I wish I was able to discern more.

Yep this video is old as shit. Like 10 years now

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