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About those Hamas tunnels in Gaza...
...this old thread of mine from 2021 goes into the use magnetic anomaly detectors and ground penetrating radar to find Hamas tunnel complexes.
IDF Tunnel busting Tech🧵
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...this old thread of mine from 2021 goes into the use magnetic anomaly detectors and ground penetrating radar to find Hamas tunnel complexes.
IDF Tunnel busting Tech🧵
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1400504551963308035
Israel has a lot of ground penetrating radar (GPR) contractors.
The GPR tool is used to locate pipes, cables and other underground utilities which haven't been properly mapped before backhoes start digging up.
It's an insurance due diligence thing.🙄
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The GPR tool is used to locate pipes, cables and other underground utilities which haven't been properly mapped before backhoes start digging up.
It's an insurance due diligence thing.🙄
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https://twitter.com/kohd1957/status/1714305155036774530
GPR have been a part of US Military anti-tunnel tactics since the late 1990's because of DPRK nuclear weapons developments and the work of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA).
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1397933220671496192
DTRA got the DPRK tunnel busting mission in 1996 during the 2nd Clinton Administration.
DTRA picked up and expanded on a mission of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Far East District’s (FED) going back to 1974.
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dtra.mil/About/DTRA-His…
DTRA picked up and expanded on a mission of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Far East District’s (FED) going back to 1974.
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dtra.mil/About/DTRA-His…
That ex-US Army & now DTRA mission was stopping North Korean tunnels under the Korean demilitarized zone.
And this DTRA mission wasn't simply limited to sensors.
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army.mil/article/248497…
And this DTRA mission wasn't simply limited to sensors.
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army.mil/article/248497…
DTRA was also concerned about terrorists home brew chemical and biological weapons and funded basic research on a 2000 lb thermobaric & dirt/concrete penetrating bomb to sterilize the threat of such 'sub-national' laboratories, as well as DPRK tunnels.
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Come 9/11/2001, all the elements for what became the BLU-118 were in place, save for the money to execute the technology.
A month later, an emergency program to create the BLU-118 armor piercing thermobaric bomb was underway to dig out Al-Qaeda from it's Afghan caves.
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A month later, an emergency program to create the BLU-118 armor piercing thermobaric bomb was underway to dig out Al-Qaeda from it's Afghan caves.
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This photo clip from Globalsecurity -dot- org has a lot of information on the BLU-118's development history.
A 2,000lb BLU-118 with a JDAMs guidance kit is a technological answer to many tunnel problems.
And the BLU-118 has been in Israeli Air Force hands for over a decade.
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A 2,000lb BLU-118 with a JDAMs guidance kit is a technological answer to many tunnel problems.
And the BLU-118 has been in Israeli Air Force hands for over a decade.
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There have been many videos of BLU-118/B thermobaric warheads cracking Hamas tunnels in Gaza.
Such tunnel strikes have a characteristic upwards jet of fuel rich, hot/black, combustion smoke.
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Such tunnel strikes have a characteristic upwards jet of fuel rich, hot/black, combustion smoke.
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https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1398981574272618497
Here is another video of a BLU-118/B tunnel strike.
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https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1516923415164239874
This video has the aftermath of a BLU-118 attack on a Hamas tunnel system looks like
The edges of the manholes all show the supersonic erosion that a thermobaric weapon erupting from an enclosed space causes.
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The edges of the manholes all show the supersonic erosion that a thermobaric weapon erupting from an enclosed space causes.
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https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1393846587785367557
This photo is thermal image view of a Blu-118 tunnel attack.
It comes from a NY TIMES 'analysis' on youtube - read speculation tarted up as fact - titled "Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People."
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It comes from a NY TIMES 'analysis' on youtube - read speculation tarted up as fact - titled "Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People."
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This is another drone thermal camera view that was mislabeled by the NY TIMES as six impact craters on Al Wada Street.
They are in fact the signature of a single thermobaric bomb's fuel expanding out a complete Hamas tunnel system.
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They are in fact the signature of a single thermobaric bomb's fuel expanding out a complete Hamas tunnel system.
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The issue is less Hamas tunnels for Israel than Hamas bunker systems under Gaza urban terrain than the fact Hamas has had 15 years to make that urban terrain nastier than Iwo Jima.
The Hamas tunnels are storage for rockets that reach central Israel.
The Hamas defensive...
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The Hamas tunnels are storage for rockets that reach central Israel.
The Hamas defensive...
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...bunker system can be taken by either an assault or by siege.
The former will cause about 20,000 IDF casualties while the latter will cause around ~8,000.
Either IDF approach will cost hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lives because Hamas is a death cult.
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The former will cause about 20,000 IDF casualties while the latter will cause around ~8,000.
Either IDF approach will cost hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lives because Hamas is a death cult.
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