RE: Anti-armor mines!

14 kilos for an antitank mine?	I would have expected them to be a lot 
bigger - but, I've never seen one outside of Twilight 2000.  Thankfully.

 Weren't there nuclear landmines, at one point?  Or were those just the 
Atomic Demolition Munitions?

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Atkinson [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
Sent:	Friday, September 04, 1998 11:45 PM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Anti-armor mines!

You wrote:

>>weighs 1000's of tons. A minefield is probably 100Kg to 1 ton. A 10 -

>a rock and a mine? I'm sure J.A. will correct me if I'm wrong, but
>most mines you would be looking for would be less than 10kg.

I'm staying out of this mostly 'coz I don't have the expertise in
modern sensors to speculate on future sensors.	This isn't stopping
some people, but I ain't trying to add to the noise ratio.

But since I've been asked, mines range from 74g(2.37oz) for the PFM-1
Scatterable Antipersonel Mine made by the FSU, to 13.6kg (30lbs) for
the MK-7 Antitank Mine made by the UK and the M-15 Heavy Antitank Mine
made by the US.

Further consideration:	Caseings for the PMD-6 family of AP mines are
wooden.  Go ahead and set your detector dohicky to detect stuff the
density of WOOD.

John M. Atkinson