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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:15:58 AM EDT
Well, this sure as hell was a bizarre ass sight in my neck of the woods. Some dudes were out doing some T&E or upgrades to it.
Used to seeing a 105 or 120mm. But this thing=BIG-BADA FUCKING BOOM!!!!!!!!   As an ordnance fanatic, these things are Super Cool. Fuck blowing a structure up. Level the whole fucking block!:      |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:17:24 AM EDT
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For the uninitiated, this is?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:18:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For the uninitiated, this is? An M1Dickfer. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:19:27 AM EDT
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I've driven a lot of Abrams (was not a DAT) and I've never seen one of those.
Must be some new fangled doohickey. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:20:12 AM EDT
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Yeah seriously, as a former 19K I have no idea what I'm looking at besides something sitting on top of an Abrams hull.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:20:29 AM EDT
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Um it has no gun. So what will it flatten stuff with? Harsh language?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:21:36 AM EDT
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Where am nug?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:21:36 AM EDT
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Its a fully functional turbo encabulator!
MICLICs are cool btw |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:22:04 AM EDT
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ABV missing the John Deere parts from the front?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:22:46 AM EDT
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Water cannon?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:22:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:25:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:27:24 AM EDT
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Its an explodey rope launcher.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:28:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:29:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Um it has no gun. So what will it flatten stuff with? Negative. 350 foot charge with 5 pounds of C-4 per linear foot=1,750 lbs of C-4 per charge. Someone correct me if those specs are off.  MICLIC Explosions • M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge Skip to 2:20 for pure awesomeness |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:29:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:30:07 AM EDT
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Hell of a thing to see in the wild!
In action: 
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:31:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThe Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:33:17 AM EDT
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Midcap thread
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:34:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. I was just thinking what if you added some ball bearings to the rope and launched it down a troublesome street in urban warfare. Dont think that street would be an issue any more a few hundred yards at a time. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:36:29 AM EDT
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Plenty of Abrams chassis available.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:37:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Um it has no gun. So what will it flatten stuff with? Harsh language?  USMC Clearing IED's with MCLC (Mine Clearing Line Charges) Kajaki, Afghanistan |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:38:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed "protestors". They use 10/22s for those. Lots cheaper |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:51:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/326343/IMAG0018__2__2_jpg-2577504.JPG You set a minefield? That's cute. Nicknamed "Shredder" 
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:53:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. Quote HistoryQuoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. The Russians have used their version(UZ-77 Meteorit) on Ukrainians positions: (High Order Detonation @1:38)  Russia Uses UZ-77 Meteorit Mine Clearance Vehicle On Fortified Building in Ukraine UZ-77 Meteorit:   There's also footage of some of Bashar Al Asad's boys in Syria, leveling a bunch of buildings with all kinds of visible Terry's running around inside and out with one. Can't find the vid though. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:55:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah seriously, as a former 19K I have no idea what I'm looking at besides something sitting on top of an Abrams hull. 19k here as well maybe it's privately owned, and it can not have a firing system? Or maybe its some type of simulator like a UCOFT? I dunno |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:56:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryHmm ok disregard my previous message this is the first I've heard of it |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:01:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/326343/IMAG0018__2__2_jpg-2577504.JPG You set a minefield? That's cute. I have no idea what it's called, but I remember seeing a video of a mine clearing vehicle with a giant hammer flail on the front, or something similar. Those drivers have to be crazy!
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:04:59 AM EDT
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It will never get out of the driveway unless someone removes the track blocks. A chunk of 4x4 ??
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:19:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/326343/IMAG0018__2__2_jpg-2577504.JPG You set a minefield? That's cute. The M1150 fucks. Like some kind of giant, armored, angry, insectoid-alien thing, that spits long-ass cobwebs of high-order detonation when you piss it off.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:23:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Russians have used their version(UZ-77 Meteorit) on Ukrainians positions: (High Order Detonation @1:38)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MOu1HQPCcUZ-77 Meteorit: https://i.imgur.com/kyiQDDsl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n0fFyFdl.jpg There's also footage of some of Bashar Al Asad's boys in Syria, leveling a bunch of buildings with all kinds of visible Terry's running around inside and out with one. Can't find the vid though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. The Russians have used their version(UZ-77 Meteorit) on Ukrainians positions: (High Order Detonation @1:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MOu1HQPCcUZ-77 Meteorit: https://i.imgur.com/kyiQDDsl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n0fFyFdl.jpg There's also footage of some of Bashar Al Asad's boys in Syria, leveling a bunch of buildings with all kinds of visible Terry's running around inside and out with one. Can't find the vid though. Wow, crazy delay. Nice to know you’d have time to Run Like Hell!!! |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:24:10 AM EDT
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It’s transitioning.
Stop deadnaming it and respect its pronouns, you bigots. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 1:29:36 AM EDT
[#32]
Must not be a secret if you were able to just drive by, stop, and take a bunch of photos of it, with no one saying anything about it.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 3:59:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow, crazy delay. Nice to know you’d have time to Run Like Hell!!! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The Izzys should use them on their violent armed “protestors”. The Russians have used their version(UZ-77 Meteorit) on Ukrainians positions: (High Order Detonation @1:38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MOu1HQPCcUZ-77 Meteorit: https://i.imgur.com/kyiQDDsl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/n0fFyFdl.jpg There's also footage of some of Bashar Al Asad's boys in Syria, leveling a bunch of buildings with all kinds of visible Terry's running around inside and out with one. Can't find the vid though. Wow, crazy delay. Nice to know you’d have time to Run Like Hell!!! I'd think these and other line charge throwers would be command detonated. Could be wrong though. Any M58 MICLIC/ M1150 ABV operators on ARF that want to chime in? There's gotta be! |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 4:05:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s transitioning. Stop deadnaming it and respect its pronouns, you bigots. 
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Posted: 10/27/2022 4:07:28 AM EDT
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I saw the Grizzly prototype (the engineer version) once.
Grizzly There are also two different bridge layer versions on an M1 chassis. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 4:22:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/27/2022 4:47:31 AM EDT
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All you have to do is run really fast to dodge all the mines.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 5:30:47 AM EDT
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So, an Army M-1 based version of something the USMC has been using for over 30 years?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 6:19:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Negative. 350 foot charge with 5 pounds of C-4 per linear foot=1,750 lbs of C-4 per charge. Someone correct me if those specs are off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgP_EkuTpeISkip to 2:20 for pure awesomeness Impressive BOOM |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 9:28:47 AM EDT
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LOL at the 2x4's.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 9:53:15 AM EDT
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Unfinished bridging unit prototype?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 10:08:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd think these and other line charge throwers would be command detonated. Could be wrong though. Any M58 MICLIC/ M1150 ABV operators on ARF that want to chime in? There's gotta be! You’re correct. You align the vehicle to orient on the minefield, raise the rocket, fire the rocket, the rocket pulls out the line charge out of the crate and pulls it taught across the minefield. The rocket motor burns out and the line charge falls to earth in a straight line. It is comprised of a big fat rope (technical term) surrounded by 5lb. C4 blocks as you described above. At this point the crew command detonates the line charge which creates a HUGE big badda BOOM that either detonates the mines via overpressure or hopefully throws them clear of the lane to either side. The lane is then proofed (checked to make sure there are no mines left) with either a roller or plow. Those used to be separate tanks, so here it integrates into one system that is ready to go as soon as the line charge goes off. To the person that suggested launching and detonating this down a street and needing ball bearings - you have no idea of the amount of force this thing releases. It is awesome.???? IIRC the SDZ/surface danger zone is around a mile, and even there you feel it in your chest when it goes off. 62m away, it rocks the track. It would destroy the buildings and kill anyone nearby from overpressure. - Old 21B/12A. Man I miss those days! |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 10:09:50 AM EDT
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Saw. You saw it.
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Posted: 10/27/2022 10:23:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was just thinking what if you added some ball bearings to the rope and launched it down a troublesome street in urban warfare. Dont think that street would be an issue any more a few hundred yards at a time. Canister rounds from an actual cannon would be better. We hit streets and buildings in Baghdad from like 50 feet with 120mm canister, it was pretty devastating. The last thing you want in a minefield is anything that adds more metal in case you need to deliberately clear the entire thing. Metal detectors will be useless at that point. APOBS used to have metal in it and it was a nightmare as units tried to use it to clear trails of IEDs, and it just made everything worse, you had no way to proof it outside of hand probing, which you could have done in the first place. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 10:40:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Saw. You saw it. Seent. He seent it. |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 10:46:02 AM EDT
[#46]
That's the Air Force version. Has a bar and hot tub and Starbucks in the box on the back
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Posted: 10/27/2022 11:57:38 AM EDT
[#47]
Mine sweeper (bangalore launching type)?
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:07:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nicknamed "Shredder" Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/326343/IMAG0018__2__2_jpg-2577504.JPG You set a minefield? That's cute. Nicknamed "Shredder" Yup.... fuk yo' minefiled |
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Posted: 10/27/2022 12:29:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You’re correct. You align the vehicle to orient on the minefield, raise the rocket, fire the rocket, the rocket pulls out the line charge out of the crate and pulls it taught across the minefield. The rocket motor burns out and the line charge falls to earth in a straight line. It is comprised of a big fat rope (technical term) surrounded by 5lb. C4 blocks as you described above. At this point the crew command detonates the line charge which creates a HUGE big badda BOOM that either detonates the mines via overpressure or hopefully throws them clear of the lane to either side. The lane is then proofed (checked to make sure there are no mines left) with either a roller or plow. Those used to be separate tanks, so here it integrates into one system that is ready to go as soon as the line charge goes off. To the person that suggested launching and detonating this down a street and needing ball bearings - you have no idea of the amount of force this thing releases. It is awesome.???? IIRC the SDZ/surface danger zone is around a mile, and even there you feel it in your chest when it goes off. 62m away, it rocks the track. It would destroy the buildings and kill anyone nearby from overpressure. - Old 21B/12A. Man I miss those days! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'd think these and other line charge throwers would be command detonated. Could be wrong though. Any M58 MICLIC/ M1150 ABV operators on ARF that want to chime in? There's gotta be! You’re correct. You align the vehicle to orient on the minefield, raise the rocket, fire the rocket, the rocket pulls out the line charge out of the crate and pulls it taught across the minefield. The rocket motor burns out and the line charge falls to earth in a straight line. It is comprised of a big fat rope (technical term) surrounded by 5lb. C4 blocks as you described above. At this point the crew command detonates the line charge which creates a HUGE big badda BOOM that either detonates the mines via overpressure or hopefully throws them clear of the lane to either side. The lane is then proofed (checked to make sure there are no mines left) with either a roller or plow. Those used to be separate tanks, so here it integrates into one system that is ready to go as soon as the line charge goes off. To the person that suggested launching and detonating this down a street and needing ball bearings - you have no idea of the amount of force this thing releases. It is awesome.???? IIRC the SDZ/surface danger zone is around a mile, and even there you feel it in your chest when it goes off. 62m away, it rocks the track. It would destroy the buildings and kill anyone nearby from overpressure. - Old 21B/12A. Man I miss those days! I'm curious if they put pressure sensors in any of the crew's helmets and collected data. I'd bet the risk of TBI to the crew is pretty high, especially after repeated firing. Being close to explosives is hard on the body and that thing looks like it has a heck of a shock wave. Looks like it takes a lot of work for two shots to clear 750 feet. I'd love to see one fire in person though. 
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Posted: 10/29/2022 3:55:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You’re correct. You align the vehicle to orient on the minefield, raise the rocket, fire the rocket, the rocket pulls out the line charge out of the crate and pulls it taught across the minefield. The rocket motor burns out and the line charge falls to earth in a straight line. It is comprised of a big fat rope (technical term) surrounded by 5lb. C4 blocks as you described above. At this point the crew command detonates the line charge which creates a HUGE big badda BOOM that either detonates the mines via overpressure or hopefully throws them clear of the lane to either side. The lane is then proofed (checked to make sure there are no mines left) with either a roller or plow. Those used to be separate tanks, so here it integrates into one system that is ready to go as soon as the line charge goes off. To the person that suggested launching and detonating this down a street and needing ball bearings - you have no idea of the amount of force this thing releases. It is awesome.???? IIRC the SDZ/surface danger zone is around a mile, and even there you feel it in your chest when it goes off. 62m away, it rocks the track. It would destroy the buildings and kill anyone nearby from overpressure. - Old 21B/12A. Man I miss those days! Quote HistoryQuoted: You’re correct. You align the vehicle to orient on the minefield, raise the rocket, fire the rocket, the rocket pulls out the line charge out of the crate and pulls it taught across the minefield. The rocket motor burns out and the line charge falls to earth in a straight line. It is comprised of a big fat rope (technical term) surrounded by 5lb. C4 blocks as you described above. At this point the crew command detonates the line charge which creates a HUGE big badda BOOM that either detonates the mines via overpressure or hopefully throws them clear of the lane to either side. The lane is then proofed (checked to make sure there are no mines left) with either a roller or plow. Those used to be separate tanks, so here it integrates into one system that is ready to go as soon as the line charge goes off. To the person that suggested launching and detonating this down a street and needing ball bearings - you have no idea of the amount of force this thing releases. It is awesome.???? IIRC the SDZ/surface danger zone is around a mile, and even there you feel it in your chest when it goes off. 62m away, it rocks the track. It would destroy the buildings and kill anyone nearby from overpressure. - Old 21B/12A. Man I miss those days! @Eagle46 Ah, thanks for the inside scoop. So how often were these used in an anti-personnel role? BTW, I found the vid of the Syrian Army(?) using the Russian version against some Terry's. Looks like some of the dudes got some serious, serious, record hang time  : Failed To Load Title Quoted: I'm curious if they put pressure sensors in any of the crew's helmets and collected data. I'd bet the risk of TBI to the crew is pretty high, especially after repeated firing. Being close to explosives is hard on the body and that thing looks like it has a heck of a shock wave. Looks like it takes a lot of work for two shots to clear 750 feet. I'd love to see one fire in person though. I too, was also wondering about the blast effects that the crew would have to deal with long term... |
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