The Off Route Mine handy for Killing Tanks and opening stiff doors.
Once fired one of these when Attached to 2 Para on Exercise over in the US (Fort Lewis).
When I say fired what I actually mean is we were as Engineers attached to them for the Purpose of setting up Demolitions and taking their new boys and Assault Pioneers through some Improvised Explosive stuff.
Anyway I digress slightly as did the Improvisation techniques as the Officers got bored after about 2 hours milling around and subsequently left our Staffy in charge....
The usual stuff to start with ..Det Cord wrapped round trees,improvised Claymores,Coffee Jars etc etc ..
Onto Bar Mines under Cadilacs ...then I decided to step it up a notch.
"Staff any chance I can use the Off Route Mine for my Improvisation"..I enquired.
"By all means what have you got in mind Sapper"He asked
"Oh I was thinking of sticking this Steel Plate on top and putting that Suspension Coil off that Truck on top of that and see just how high I can send it"...
"Fine crack on I'll inform Air Traffic Control to clear us a window".
You see Fort Lewis is a very busy Base with alot of Helos and Military Planes coming and going and has it's own Air Traffic Control Centre.
Just as well..............
I set her off and the Truck Spring went through the cloud base at a terrible rate of acceleration.
Took over 10 seconds to appear on its' way down.
Savage bit of kit.
A good day as a Sapper in the Corps