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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
How well does the Stryker handle mines?
6 posted on 12/03/2003 6:29:18 AM PST by John123 (The Governator is gonna clear a lot of the deadwood in Sacramento!)
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To: John123
How well does the Stryker handle mines?

That's what the crews are about to find out. But when similar Russian BTR-80 series 8-wheeled armored cars deployed in Afghanistan and Chechnya, with weights of 21,000 kilos and similar crew loadings hit a TM-46 or TM57 antitank mine with around 15 pounds of explosive inside, typically the driver is killed and the vehicle is rolled over on the side opposite of that under which the mine detonates. And when one centers on two mines stacked atop each other [common because one 20-pound mine can be carried in either hand] and sets off a tilt-rod firing device, the vehicles are sometimes flipped over backwards, end-over-end. All fuel tanks and containers are typically ruptured from the shock of the initial explosion, with resulting fires as hot engine components ignite spilled fuel


49 posted on 12/03/2003 11:08:42 AM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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