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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Scatterable Minefields
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Date: 1 Mar 90 04:03:35 GMT
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From: Irving Chidsey <chidsey@smoke.brl.mil>

In article <14338@cbnews.ATT.COM> nuchat!steve@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Nuchia) writes:
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<If the area is such (or can be made so) that you can drive a truck
<around it in something approximating a circle, then you can drag a
<sled behind the vehicle.  The sled will follow a path inside that of
<the truck, and you should be able to spiral in to (nearly) the middle
<that way.  Then a few eccentric passes finish the job.

	If I were the assigned truckdriver, I would also desire that the
other guy's helos, tanks, arty, etc be similarly unavailable, as I get
nervous when performing before an unfriendly audience.

						Irv
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			Irving L. Chidsey  <chidsey@brl.mil>