Re: Anti-armor mines!

You wrote: 

><<  The most effective current AT mine is the M-21 Heavy 
> Anti-tank mine which weighs 17.25 pounds, and uses a direct-energy 
> warhead (Miznay-Schardin effect).
>  >>
>
>What is the Miznay-Schardin effect? Is this what they're calling the 
self->forging projectile concept or have they renamed the Monroe 
effect? 

It's kissing cousins to the Monroe effect, IIRC.  I'm not much on the 
physics of this, I just listen to the classes and read the manuals.  As 
I understand it, your Monroe is the conventional shaped charge, with 
deep (relatively) indentation in the explosive.  Miznay-Schardin is 
just slightly concave and sends the steel plate into motion without 
being compressed into a thin jet like a TOW warhead.  Of course, that's 
just my understanding--I could be way off on this.

John M. Atkinson