• @[email protected]OP
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    36 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      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.

    • @Z4XC
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      26 months ago

      A buried explosive will still have a non-zero chance of detonating.