Re: Mines 8 (!)

You wrote: 

>As an aside, the unspecified place I just returned from used old 
Soviet >mines as the primary source for explosives (used for demo and 
engineer >ops).

The American M-21 directs most of it's energy straight up (with platter 
charge to boot) making it quite useful for some demolitions 
applications.

<Consumer Safety Warning>
But I would NOT RPT NOT reccomend dicking around with unexploded mines 
of any nationality for any reason!  After a while in the ground, a fuze 
can degrade, so that a former requirement of 350 pounds pressure has 
become 35 pounds pressure to detonate.
</Consumer Safety Warning>

Yes, I am an old lady when it comes to explosives.  I don't want to 
reduce my own self to bloody shreds!  

>Also, future minefields/mines	should	have the option to self 
destruct >after a certain amount of time (user specified) to make them 
safer to >civilians. Might be some Geneva stipulated mine feature. 
Ground sensors >work like that.

Probably so.  In a campaign game, yes.	In the standard Dirtside II 
game, not likely.

John M. Atkinson