Soldiers of the 789th Ordnance Company prepare a cache of landmines, mortars and 107mm rockets to be disposed of by a high explosives charge, near Besmaya region southeast of Baghdad. Army researchers are designing smarter, safer and more mobile landmines for future operations. (Army)
Daily Mail: Trump to allow US troops to use landmines by overturning Obama ban - but they will have 30 day self-destruct function
* Donald Trump will reportedly allow US troops to use landmines again by overturning an Obama administration ban
* The explosives that have killed about 130,000 civilians over the past 20 years
* Pentagon sources told CNN the change was to make sure countries such as Russia or China will not be able to get access to critical terrain
* It's based off a Secretary of Defense-led review launched in 2017 which found lack of landmines outside of Korea 'increased risk to mission success'
* Since 1993 it has cost about $3.6billion to clear excess weapons and explosives from over 100 countries, many of them African
* The woman who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with International Campaign to Ban Landmines, blasted the decision Thursday
Donald Trump will allow US troops to use landmines again by overturning an Obama administration ban on the explosives that have killed about 130,000 civilians over the past two decades, a report says.
In the coming days the president is expected to loosen the restrictions set in 2014 in line with the Ottawa Treaty's aim to prevent the production, stockpiling and transfer of the weapons of war.
But troops will only be able to use mines that self-destruct or self-deactivate in 30 days as the US prepares to be well equipped in case of major conflict with a 'great power'.
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