Comment by ra
1 day ago
I stayed near Dubrovnik in the summer of 2005. There was a wildfire burning on on the hills behind us.
The fire traversed the hillside, and every hour or two a landmine would explode.
This was ten years after the war.
1 day ago
I stayed near Dubrovnik in the summer of 2005. There was a wildfire burning on on the hills behind us.
The fire traversed the hillside, and every hour or two a landmine would explode.
This was ten years after the war.
10 years is a long time, but 10 years after a war is not a long time. Damages to building still remains, mines and plenty of unexploded ordinances will remain, and psychological scars are still very strong.
Yep, the city center in Belgrade still has dilapidated, bombed buildings, 26 years after the bombs fell.
We had some buildings like that in the center of Milan. I think that the last one has been restored in the late 90s.
In German cities bomb evacuation still happens several times per year. That's >80 years after. War sucks.
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Sounds like the cheapest way to remove mines from land.
It is not reliable though, so you still have to de-mine it the traditional way.