"WW2 mine found and detonated" Topic
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| 4th Cuirassier | 27 Nov 2015 5:53 p.m. PST |
link I could never figure out why it only took one mine to sink HMS Audacious but if they were this size – 1,000-foot water plume – I understand it a lot better. Were they this big in WW1? |
 ColCampbell  | 27 Nov 2015 6:52 p.m. PST |
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| wrgmr1 | 27 Nov 2015 8:03 p.m. PST |
Agreed, quite the explosion. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 27 Nov 2015 8:47 p.m. PST |
Oh, I thought you said mime  |
 Doms Decals  | 28 Nov 2015 3:35 a.m. PST |
They're also best destroyed in a controlled explosion…. :-) |
| 14Bore | 28 Nov 2015 5:03 a.m. PST |
Had to stop by as I had to see why a Kurrassier was writing about a sea mine and it wasn't near his horse. Actually I wonder how many are out there. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 30 Nov 2015 5:55 a.m. PST |
Oh, I thought you said mime evil grin I meant mime, obviously. HMS Audacious was sunk by one guy pretending to walk into a headwind while holding his hat on, assisted by another guy pretending to be trapped in an invisible call box. |
| Martin Rapier | 01 Dec 2015 7:01 a.m. PST |
That was a bottom mine, they are typically much more powerful (it was a ton of explosives!) than contact mines – the latter are usually only a few hundred pounds. According to wikipedia there isn't any point in putting more than a 150kg of explosive in a contact mine as it adds very little to its destructive effect and bigger mines are harder to handle. |
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