Comments on: Top 10 Wire-Cutting Bomb Moments in Film

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:35:33 +0000

In reply to Mike. Mike, who is to say the bomber wired all the IEDs Improvised Explosive Devices the same? As a former Army EOD Tech trained at Red Stone AL & Indianhead MD in 1974. I left the field before robots and bomb suits. Nevertheless, the tech on site would report his action. However, hand entry is the LAST case when no other option is available. I never had a remote RSP render safe procedure fail. So... Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the Hole! Go back and get a beer.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2015 21:22:33 +0000

Re “Juggernaut,” if I remember correctly– I read the book when I was 13, and even then this stuck in my mind as a total plot flaw — Richard Harris’s character, after internal debate about whether he can trust what he’s being told by the bomber, cuts the “wrong” wire WITHOUT TELLING THE REST OF HIS TEAM WHICH WIRE HE’S CUTTING. Had the wrong wire _really_ been the wrong wire and the bomb had detonated, the EOD techs working on the remaining (four? five?) bombs would have been completely in the dark as to which of the two wires they should cut on _their_ bombs. Oops! How did the author miss this?

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:50:44 +0000

Good, I clicked on the link for this list, and I immediately thought that this list would be garbage if it didn’t have the scene from The Abyss. Great list.