Minefileds

John A replied to someone:

Sure.  Surface-laid mines are visible if you know what
you're looking for and get lucky.  Tilt-rod mines are
blindingly obvious. And even buried mines have indicators. The problem comes
in noticing those indicators in combat. The other problem comes in telling
whether it's a real mine or not. I mean, are
those tilt-rods, or straightened coat hangers stuck in
the ground?

[Tomb] I saw a player use this to good effect in Challenger II when
defending a seaside town in Kuwait. His Iraqis piled up dirt like you might
sea in a planted minefield manually here and there and posted lots of mine
warning signs. The NATO player believed him and ended up trying a much more
difficult attack as a result.

And as a former Gropo, my interest in probing for mines with a probe or my
bayonet isn't that high..... I'll just choose to believe a minefield is real
if it looks like it *might* just be real.:)

> --- kaladorn@magma.ca wrote:

> And as a former Gropo, my interest in probing for

Bayonet BAD!

BAD! BAD! BAD!

Sneaky Italian people make mines with magnetic fuzes
and sell them on cash-and-carry basis to every kind of
undesirable LOON you can imagine!

> At 10:00 PM -0700 9/26/02, John Atkinson wrote:

Ok, metal bayonet is bad. What about a thin non-metallic rod pushed
at an angle into the ground?

> --- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:

Perhaps fiberglass, with rubber handle?

That's precisely what the US Army uses.

> Sneaky Italian people make mines with magnetic fuzes

Could you give the name of this mine? I'm assuming you're talking about AT
mines and not AP ones.

> --- Ludo Toen <ludo.toen@pi.be> wrote:

> Could you give the name of this mine? I'm assuming

VS-SATM and VS-SATM 1
BAT/7
VS-HCT 4
SB/MV-1

These are all technically AT mines (meaning they have
a charge big enough to M-kill a vehicle) but they are
so sensitive that they really are dual-purpose.