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From: mcgp1!flak@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dan Flak)
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Subject: Low Tech Warfare (3 of 5)
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Date: 9 Dec 89 00:40:38 GMT
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From: mcgp1!flak@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dan Flak)

                  LOW TECH WARFARE - PART III

Having determined that road cuts made with heavy bombs, and
seeding the roadway with CBU "bomblets" weren't always an
effective means of denying the enemy use of a road, the Air Force
put the wizards at Wright Patterson Air Force Base on the task.

The result, after millions of dollars of R&D funds, was the Air
Delivered, Magnetic Proximity Fuse Mine. Once again, F-4's would
fly over the trail. Once again, they would lay down a rectangular
pattern of ordinance. This time, the payload was designed to
destroy, rather than damage its target.

The mine worked on a magnetic principle. It armed when it
detected the approach of metal. It remained armed as long as the
magnetic attraction increased. As soon as the magnetic attraction
decreased, or if the mine were distrubed, the mine detonated. The
theory was that the mine would go off at the vehicle's closest
approach.

The countermeasure was simple. Charlie walked up to the mine,
wrapped a chain around it, and walked away. There they sit to
this very day waiting for the "truck" parked on top of them to
move away.
-- 
       Dan Flak - McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., 201 Elliot Ave W.,
    Suite 105, Seattle, Wa 98119, 206-283-2658, (usenet: thebes!mcgp1!flak)