RE: Mines 8 (!)

Canadian engineers are trained to disarm enemy mines.  In fact so are
Canadian infantry.  As well, whenever they go to a specific theatre they
get trained on disarming mines that may be found there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jatkins6@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 1998 2:49 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	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