Re: [OT] Spearhead

--- Dances With Rocks <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote:

> So, John, how long *does* it take for an engineer
> platoon
> to put in a minefield 125 yards square? ("how many
> licks
> does it take to get to the center of..." ;-)

Never put in a manual one that deep.  Probably not
much more than an hour or so for surface-laid AT
mines.

You want extras, those cost more time.

Extras are AHDs, Tilt-rods, burial, camoflage, a frat
fence, AP mines.  All can be dispensed with if time
presses.

Something about most wargames--they want to rate
minefields as AT, AP, or mixed, with the mixed being
less effective than the pure.  That's bogus--the
density of AT mines is actually higher in the more
common mixed minefields (Block, for instance) than in
AT-pure disrupts.  It just has AP mines _also_.

John

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