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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The suit is there to reduce fatalities and minimize injuries, not to avoid every poasible injury.

  Sometimes there are situations where touch and feel is critical, although my understanding is that the preferred approach today is remote detonation where even the suit is away from the likely blast radius.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most of the times my favorite aproach is not to be a bomb expert. To this day it has not failed me yet

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you for your service 🫡

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Remote detonation sounds much safer.

    EoD guys looked at all available military possible and said “nah I want one with real risk.”

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gloves are useless, and you need fine motor control anyway.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I totally get that, working previously in kitchens and being told to wear gloves…I never did because screw that

    I just assumed that dealing with bombs wouldn’t be a one-time incident scenario.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … You’re comparing a kitchen (sanitary) to a bomb exploding? Gloves will not protect you from a bomb. Anything that would would be far too large and unwieldly to use when trying to diffuse a bomb.

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      • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In my REPLY, yes I’m comparing them because they are identical after being explained that they both decrease your fine motor movements.

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      • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Actually not wearing gloves and washing your hands regularly is, I believe, generally bettee for sanitation. There’s a lot of false confidence and shit with gloves, and they cost money and are technically a limited resource. You should always have them on hand, especially for if you get cut and need to wear a bandaid, but washing your hands as needed is totally fine.

        And as it relates to this conversation they have a point in that gloves fucking suck to wear. They’re weirdly sticky and also even tight ones are like wearing loose skin and it just kinda sucks. Again, super great to have around and they can be awesome for some tasks where you just do not want to have to do anything more than removing the glove and rinsing, but the point stands.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean when they’re defusing larger bombs the suit wouldn’t help at all, it’s literally do or die

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