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07-03-2004, 02:16 AM
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Ready to rock: the APOBS system, armed for firing. The 150-long line charge is packed with 108 grenades and will clear a path 45 meters long.
Anyone who has seen the harrowing D-Day assault that begins "Saving Private Ryan" knows about the Army Bangalore torpedo. A 130-pound, ten-section behemoth (each section 5 feet long), this demolitions kit is still used today (the M1A2) as an antipersonnel mine clearing charge, and is filled with 110 pounds of Composition B (a mixture of RXD and TNT). When it comes to clearing antipersonnel mines and clearing footpaths 1 meter wide, the Bangalore is the one for the job, but the modern era has brought high-tensile strength barbed wire obstacles -- obstacles that aren't easily cleared by this behemoth. It also doesn't help that the Bangalore takes upwards of 10 minutes to emplace.
Full article:
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_APOBS,,00.html?ESRC=soldiertech.nl
Ready to rock: the APOBS system, armed for firing. The 150-long line charge is packed with 108 grenades and will clear a path 45 meters long.
Anyone who has seen the harrowing D-Day assault that begins "Saving Private Ryan" knows about the Army Bangalore torpedo. A 130-pound, ten-section behemoth (each section 5 feet long), this demolitions kit is still used today (the M1A2) as an antipersonnel mine clearing charge, and is filled with 110 pounds of Composition B (a mixture of RXD and TNT). When it comes to clearing antipersonnel mines and clearing footpaths 1 meter wide, the Bangalore is the one for the job, but the modern era has brought high-tensile strength barbed wire obstacles -- obstacles that aren't easily cleared by this behemoth. It also doesn't help that the Bangalore takes upwards of 10 minutes to emplace.
Full article:
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_APOBS,,00.html?ESRC=soldiertech.nl