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2010-03-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli military bulldozers cross into Gaza

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Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-28 14:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "stop when you get to Egypt"

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-28 14:33|| 2010-03-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The Rachael Corrie Dozer Brigade.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-28 15:42|| 2010-03-28 15:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Tunnel digging isn't easy, and depends on solid ground. So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock.

Creating a pattern of such bore holes would take a few hours, but when all the charges were popped, tunneling over a 100-200' distance would be like trying to tunnel through sand. Any existing tunnels in the area would be collapsed. Surface damage would be minimal.

Something like this was done in WWI by the British and the Germans, who would dig long tunnels, then fill up caverns with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, creating immense explosions underneath their enemy.

The British didn't care for that, so invented "counter-mining" against the German tunnels.

"A notable example was the Battle of Messines, when 450 tonnes of high explosive were placed in 21 mines after about two years of sapping. Approximately 10,000 German troops were killed when 19 of the mines were simultaneously detonated. One of the explosive caches exploded years later. The 21st cache was never found and there are still several tonnes of high explosive buried somewhere in the Belgian countryside."

But the task for the Israelis would be somewhat simpler, in that the Egyptian-Gaza border is only about 8 miles long.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-28 16:30|| 2010-03-28 16:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Then there was the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in June of '64 where......oh never mind.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-28 17:00|| 2010-03-28 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock.

Sounds a lot like the GBU 28.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-28 17:18|| 2010-03-28 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 My thoughts too, Besoeker. Petersburg, Va. it was. I lived right out side of there in the 1990's. Union miners dug a big mine and blew it up under the Confederates. As I remember from the tour of the battleground, something went amiss and after the explosion the Union troops were confused and more of them got killed than the Southern army troops. Believe it or not, the crater still exist today, that's how big the explosion was back 1864. And if memory serves, the battle for Petersburg was the last big battle before Lee surrendered at Appomattox a few weeks later.

Posted by Mr. Bill 2010-03-28 19:43|| 2010-03-28 19:43|| Front Page Top

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