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01-13-2017, 04:56 AM
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| Your Mothers Nightmare... Poster Rank:411 Male Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 2,856 Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Quoted: 1036 Post(s)
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Re: Effects of a Small Anti Personnel Landmine
I was out there during the Bosnian conflict and landlines where everywhere...if it wasn't tarmac or concrete...don't walk on it, that's the instructions I gave to anyone I briefed on arrival. These things can be put behind the foot controls of vehicles too...stops car thieves I suppose! I truly detest land mines and it infuriates me that the USA still refuses to condemn them let alone stop using them. I always said it would be a landline or a mortar that got me.... I was correct but it didn't happen in FRY (Former Republic of Yugoslavia) but a mortar in Iraq some 10 years later in 2005 got me. Terrifying things landlines when your in a land covered in them with poorly drawn maps of where they are placed (military always map their mines....but militia just stick them here and there with no record, so they just lie there dormant and waiting for years and years until someone long after the war is out for a walk and boom their life changes and for a while people avoid old battle fields until slowly it's forgotten until the next casualty. These things are plastic with a tiny amount of metal in the firing pin so are really hard to detect. During WW2 the Russians countered the very effective German metal detecting hand held land mine detector by simply making anti tank mines out of wood. The wooden box would let a man walk over it, a motorbike or possibly a car or light armoured vehicle because infantry can deal with them...it's the heavy armour they wanted taken care of. They used old wooden ammo boxes...recycling or would that be classed as upcycling old useless boxes?  |
