Re: Mines 8 (!)

You wrote: 

>I recall seeing a documentary about Kursk, in which an elderly Red 
Army >sapper said that Soviet war-produced mines were so edgy and 
unsafe that they >preferred to use German ones nocturnally 
"appropriated" from minefields!
>
>Such a practice might happen on the kind of outback world you mention 

1)It's not something I would do under fire, hence it will not normally 
show up in a Dirtside II game.	And even if someone tried, the scale 
would be more appropriate to Stargrunt.

2)99% of militaries in the 22nd century have perfectly good 
night-vision gear.  Modern US hunters have damn good stuff, I would not 
find it surprising to see them as common as hunting rifles on remote 
colonies.

3)Regular engineers are not trained to defuze enemy mines.  I have only 
one option when dealing with enemy mines, and that is to blow them in 
place.	Special Forces, EOD, et al might disarm them, and guerillas or 
long-term veterans may learn to do so, but it's not a real bright idea 
generally.  Especially with modern anti-handling devices.  There is an 
Italian AHD which is keyed to the magnetic field of the earth.	Move 
the mine 4 feet in any direction after it's armed, and BOOM.  And it's 
internal, hence impossible to notice.

John M. Atkinson