Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles

["Ryan GIll" <rmgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Balloon tyres are good for reducing the ground pressure such that an at weight mine won't be set off. However some mines have different initiators or settings for trigger weight that can be set when laid to reduce vehicle counter measures.

The South African and Rhodesian pookie and similar vehicles use the large wide tyres with low ground pressure AND have v shaped hulls to minimize dmage as well.

If I'm the red force commander and laying mines where balloon tyres and hover are vehicle counter measures, ill set them up for using magnetic variance or audio transducers (already in use in off route mines) and other non contact type initiators.

--
Ryan Gill
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-----Original Message-----

From:  Charles Lee <xarcht@xxxxxxxxx>
Subj:  Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles
Date:  Mon May 12, 2008 6:15 pm
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To:  gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The fact that ballon type tires or hover is a way to reduce the effectiviness of land mines by not providing high PSI foot print.

--- On Sun, 5/11/08, Tom B <kaladorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 From: Tom B <kaladorn@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles
To: gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 1:33 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/09/military-adds-armor-to-ir_n_101083.html  Jon (or someone else) should make some wheel models that look like the new generation of mine resistant vehicles we're seeing. They look pretty interesting.  --  "Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I  "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine  Thomas Paine  _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l
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