Ammunition and explosives – Mines
Patent
1994-08-18
1995-06-13
Jordan, Charles T.
Ammunition and explosives
Mines
F42B 2300
Patent
active
054232660
ABSTRACT:
This invention is a relatively simple and yet highly efficient disabling mine that is approximately the size of a tube of lip balm or a 20 gauge shotgun shell. A detonator and its associated detonator pin is adapted to fire a detonator cap in the end of a charge chamber. The charge chamber is filled with magnesium except for the area immediately adjacent the detonator cap which is gunpowder that is used as a magnesium igniter. When the mine of the present invention is ignited, it will burn fiercely at a temperature in excess of 3000 Fahrenheit for a period of 5 to 6 seconds which will disable personnel as well as vehicles and other enemy equipment coming in contact therewith. Because of the relatively small size of the mines of the present invention, at least 50 of the same can be carried by a single soldier in a bandolier.
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Jordan Charles T.
Wesson Theresa M.
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