Real life ‘Hurt Locker’ teams face real Afghan bombs focus 04/10/2010

Real life ‘Hurt Locker’ teams face real Afghan bombs

focus 04/10/2010 YOSEF KHEL — It’s not quite an Oscar-winning performance but Johnny Five gets the job done, scrambling down a rocky Afghan slope to plant explosives around a propane tank wired to blow. The little robot — technically known as a TALON but nicknamed Johnny Five after the 1986 US film Short Circuit — slowly makes its way back up to a hulking armoured vehicle where bomb disposal experts prepare to detonate. “Twenty seconds!” a soldier shouts, as a US army commander frantically gestures to Afghan police and farmers to take cover in the dusty fields around Yosef Khel village in eastern Paktika province..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100410com3.html

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