Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "The Armourer's Bench"
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At least it's not as nasty as the Swedish Stridsvagnsmina 6, a mine that looks a bit like a bowl with straight upper half sides, it's a magnetic HEAT mine with a two step ignition, the first, weak charge, blows away any covering material, then the main charge detonates and sends a HEAT jet into the underside of the vehicle.
The mine has a built in tampering detonator in the bottom which can be prepared with a hair trigger by placing a plastic disc with a small central magnet in a cavity in the bottom of the mine before the mine is buried and armed.
The mine can not be reset or moved once armed or it will trigger the anti-tampering device, it will trigger on any sufficient change in the ambient magnetic field around it, it's battery lasts for more than 6 months, and the anti tampering detonator is also triggered by any attempt to open the battery compartment.
If the magnetic disk is fitted, the anti tampering detonator can, iirc, activate even when the mine has run out of battery for the magnetic main detonator.
Once it's armed, it's removed by blasting it/shooting it on site.
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Yup, it was originally designed as an ambush weapon for island hopping amphibious infantry of the Swedish Costal Artillery.
And island is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the context. (Typical Swedish archipelago= area of 40-150 granite cliffs sticking out of the sea in a cluster at the mouth of a river estuary where about half are no bigger above the surface than an average family car, but many are around the size of a hockey rink and the largest are about the size of a major international airport, and any islet big enough to have cracks that's accumulated permanent soil is covered in pines, juniperbushes and thorny wild raspberry vines, with many housing one or more fishing huts, hamlets and summer cottages with jettys and private boats or public commuter ferry stops.
Some of those cottages or fishibg huts however, were not what they appeared to be, they hid bunker entrances in plain sight, and inside those bunkers were small three-five man sonar, or radio listening posts that also controlled a number of local permanent seabed mine blockades that crisscrossed every approach along the entire Swedish coastline deep enough for a soviet ro-ro ship or wide enough for a zubr assault hoovercraft prior to 2003 when the entire Costal Artillery branch was disbanded to enable political tax cuts for the capitalist class...
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