How Can Land Mines be Detected?

The China Mine Disposal Station is a testing room cast with 47 tons of steel. It is also the first automatic ground explosion equipment detection station in the army

China Mine Disposal Station

An inspection room of less than 30 square meters, cast with 47 tons of steel

</ strong> "This is our geo-explosive equipment destruction center," said the stationmaster Chen Shengbo.

On September 8, 2000, a rare accidental explosion in Urumqi since the founding of the People's Republic of China caused serious casualties and damaged dozens of cars and nearby houses. After the incident, leaders of the Central Committee and the Military Commission attached great importance. In May 2002, the Military Commission and the Fourth Headquarters made a decision to establish a mine demolition equipment testing station waste station in each military region, marking a historic leap in the destruction of our army's mine demolition equipment testing station.

Chen Shengbo told the author that the construction of the army s first landmine blasting equipment detection station waste station is a complex system project. Under his leadership, we first walked into the ground explosion equipment testing center.

"Here is like a" mine hospital ", where all kinds of ground explosive equipment, old, sick and dead, are consulted and sentenced here. That is to say, the quality of the mine equipment is unqualified, and whether it can continue to be stored and used, it must be done here.

Scientific rigorous style and strong skills are the magic weapon to go through the "Ghost Gate" again and again.

"In the past few years, we have carried out more than 60,000 explosive tests and actual explosion operations, eliminating thousands of times of dangerous situations such as blind fire, semi-explosion and refusal of explosion. Sword, that's two words: "In case? "" Chen Sheng said with emotion.

"For our business, it s impossible to be brave every day with death, but courage is not possible without scientific rigor. Every slogan and every operating procedure is between life and death Lessons learned. "

In order to increase the safety awareness of officers and soldiers and cultivate their rigorous and meticulous style, the station has successively formulated the "Regulations on the Safety Management of Geodetonation Stations" and the "Rules on Detection and Destruction" in accordance with the actual work. These regulations seem to impose a "tightening curse" on the officers and men, but actually add a "safety lock" to security.

The results of the efforts are very significant. From August to November 2006, together with experts from scientific research institutes, they carried out storage period research experiments on ground explosion equipment of different types and types in the entire army, and carried out more than 60,000 operations and collected data of 13 thousand. Many of them have extended the storage life of some mines and explosives sentenced to "death penalty" and "expired" for 5 to 10 years, bringing great economic and military value to the country, praised by a head of the General Equipment Department as " This is the first and significant test in our army's history. "