Rule #1: Don't tap the thing too much...
Rule #2: Don't forget Rule #1.!

The attached video of thermal footage was recorded from an AC-130 gunship from a mile or more away. No rounds were fired by the aircraft. The problem solved itself with no American intervention. Some jihadists were trying to bury an IED made from a 155 mm artillery shell. Evidently they lost the instruction manual ... it could not have happened to a more deserving group of people!