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From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Mines
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.042117.5327@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:21:17 GMT
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From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
In article <1991Feb4.060426.18067@cbnews.att.com> ccc_simon@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) writes:
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>Has anyone ever developed a device to trigger mines.  Something like a
>HEAVILY armoured remote controlled device {like a tank say; that has about
>5 inches of plate steel and is essentially only a remote controlled "car" that
>drives a track thru a minefield?}
>I'm unfamiliar with how technical mines are, so don't know what they are
>capable of in the way of avoiding unuseful detonation.

I'm sure such devices exist. However, some mines are quite sophisticated
--they can be programmed to go off the nth time that they are subjected to
a triggering stimulus. Thus, you could roll over the mine once with a
steamroller, then have it go off when you drive over it with your jeep.
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