In his remarks, Kosiniak-Kamysz revealed that Poland could consider renouncing the Ottawa Convention, which aims at eliminating the use of anti-personnel landmines. But he added that “the arming of minefields will only take place when we are sure that war is inevitable”, reports broadcaster TVP.
Hmm. It might be possible to use mines that self-disarm. That addresses much of the UXO concerns, while still permitting for defensive use.
Much more happily than I would a field of non-disarmed ones.
Military explosives are generally pretty stable. They can’t just explode when you bump them.
If your detonation mechanism requires ignition of a primer by a battery that (a) is runs a timer and then disables itself and (b) has batteries that only last so long anyway, there’s not a lot that can reasonably set the thing off.
Hmm. It might be possible to use mines that self-disarm. That addresses much of the UXO concerns, while still permitting for defensive use.
Would you walk through a field of “self-disarmed” land mines?
Much more happily than I would a field of non-disarmed ones.
Military explosives are generally pretty stable. They can’t just explode when you bump them.
If your detonation mechanism requires ignition of a primer by a battery that (a) is runs a timer and then disables itself and (b) has batteries that only last so long anyway, there’s not a lot that can reasonably set the thing off.
More complexity means more things that can go wrong.
But we do have smoke detectors, for example, with ten-year sealed batteries. I don’t think I’ve heard of those having any failures.
A buried explosive will still have a non-zero chance of detonating.