The United States will soon provide antipersonnel mines to Ukraine, a U.S. official confirmed late Tuesday, in a move that followed Ukraine’s first deployment of long-range U.S.-supplied ballistic missiles in an attack on Russia.

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    1 month ago

    From the article…

    “The official also pointed to the function of the mines, which they said require a battery for operation and will not detonate once the battery runs out after a period of a few hours to a few weeks.”

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      1 month ago

      That’s brilliant engineering but also…I wonder how common some kind of reverse-dud would be?

      “Oh cool it’s probably inert because that was MONTHS ag–”