The advancement in robotics and remote control systems has meant that bomb disposal robots will become increasingly adaptable to their environments in the future. This is why you do not get enormous explosions when they do this.” “If they fire into a wire and the wire comes off, it is rendered safe, or at least for someone to go forward and declare it safe. “When they drive the robot, they are looking for where they can fire the jet of water,” says an army spokesperson. This is why bomb disposal is best carried out by a robot. However, some devices have secondary systems that can cause the device to explode if it is tampered with. An explosive device usually requires a power supply to detonate: disrupting this wire means the circuit is broken and thus rendered inert, if not safe. Bomb disposal robots typically achieve this by firing a high-pressure jet of water at wires on the device. The key to modern bomb disposal operations is to the render the explosive ordnance device inert without causing it to detonate. This allowed the Wheelbarrow to disable bombs, rather than simply tow them away. Later, Miller added Major Robert Patterson’s “pigstick” – the army’s term for a strong waterjet – to the Wheelbarrow.
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