Blowing mine field with bazooka round and Det. cord!

[A. F Medic]

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[jonnyc]

In the IDF Engineers, we had special rockets for that very purpose back in the 1980s.
It's good they have their names on their helmets, just in case they don't release the det-cord on time. That rocket will swing right around and cause a big mess.

[browningautorifle]

There were kits called Viper and Giant Viper for that, and I remember watching the IDF do a clearance with the kit you speak of. Two men each with a backpack? They set them side by side and hook them together? Back off and fire and it carried out a line like a string of M67 grenades??? Hit the ground and takes the minefield with it. That one Jonny?

[jonnyc]

They were called Viper, but I don't recall any backpack versions. They must have come after my time.

[formerfarmer]

Must be the grandpa version of the line charges the engineers are using in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Mohawk]

US ARMY had a device called a MCLC, or MicLic. It was a trailer mounted device with a rocket from a Tomahawk Missile attached to a long det cord, with blocks of C-4 attached. It was aprox. 120' long. It was fired over a mine field and then detonated. When they worked they were grand. When they did not, they tended to blow up the trailer and anything around them. They were put to use during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It was a time consuming endeavor. It was much easier to run a herd of sheep or camels through. The feast afterwards was quite delicious

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Mine Clearing Line Charge (MCLC)