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Old 10th Jan 2012, 11:18
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COCL2
 
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Reminisces of catching fish by rupturing their swim bladders with explosives don't really relate to exploding mines - which are metal, not soft tissue, and don't have swim bladders. Or lateral lines through which the nervous system can be overloaded.
Picking up on GrahamO's question:
anyone know if any kind of trials were ever done on clearing mines using area denial weapons similar to JP233 or cluster bombs fused to detonate below the surface? Someone somewhere must have tried it - did it work?
Or a thermobaric fuel/air bomb exploded over the water (something like the Vietnam-era daisy cutters)???
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