Fighting the War with Toys

From Military Diaries

.....We came upon a possible IED in the middle of the road, and stopped all traffic to check it out......

.......A young private in that platoon has one of those radio-controlled toy cars. When they find unidentifiable debris in the road, E.S. sends out his little RC car and rams it. If it's light enough to be moved or knocked over, it's too light to be a bomb, so we can approach it and get rid of it. If it's heavy, we call EOD. At night, they duct tape a flashlight to the car.......

.....The military actually has robots that it uses for such things, but they are larger, slower, higher-tech, and frightfully expensive.....

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Military Diaries: Going Outside the Wire with RC Cars