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Total Members Voted: 106

[Kot]

Air dropping mines sound like dead children to me!

[Powder Miner]

A mountain race or two will clear those mines right up, I'm sure.

[evictedSaint]

UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (3) Madman, Happerry, eS

[Madman198237]

Air dropping mines sound like dead children to me!

We've been deploying mines for three Arms Races now, Kot, and no children have died yet (unless they died in the other two). Plus we will know exactly where the field is, and the mines are going to be unburied.

[NAV]

UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar: (1) NAV
UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (3) Madman, Happerry, eS

[stabbymcstabstab]

UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar: (1) NAV
UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (4) Madman, Happerry, eS, Stabby

Don't think off it as dead or dying children, think of it as a future booming of the prosthetic industry.

[evictedSaint]

I am shocked to learn Cannala is employing children on the front lines

[Olith McHuman]

I am shocked to learn Cannala is employing children on the front lines

Wait... we could make our planes smaller, or fit in more ammo!
(no, this is not a serious proposition )

[Kot]

UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar: (2) NAV, Kot
UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (4) Madman, Happerry, eS, Stabby

reee

[ConscriptFive]

I have two big problems with the 'Blackcat.'  One, making it an aerial munition screws us if we lose air superiority again.  Two, there's so much gallows humor you could do with naming landmines, and you chose something as boring as Blackcat (a fireworks namebrand)?  Christ, we're even using them against supposed pirates.  'Pegleg,' 'Eyepatch,' and 'Captain Hook,' would have been my go-tos.

I still like my Ribeye, but for the sake of being a team player, here's a different version of the 'Blackcat.'

UF-MRLS-46 Diana Mine Deploying MRLS Rocket
The UF-MRLS-46 Diana is a mine deploying MRLS rocket deployed by our Artemis MRLS.  If artillery is truely the King of Battle, surely that leaves room for a Princess.  A heavily modified firecracker round fitted to an Artemis rocket, this Lady can scatter a variety of Forenian AP and AT mines at a distance.  If possible, the AP mines should have non-metallic cases, to make them lighter, with wood being the obvious substitute if synthetics like rubber or Bakelite are unavailable.  These AP mines should have "Treasure Inside" written on the outside of the case to further entice Cannalans to interact with them.

Because Diana is just the Roman version of Artemis right?

I would have preferred my favorite airdropped AP landmine, the Russian PFM-1, (a ripoff of the otherwise unused NATO BLU-43) but that's probably too divergent tech-wise to stretch for a revision.  If you ever see one though, they are oddly captivating and you just have to squeeze and play with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1

UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar: (3) NAV, Kot, ConscriptFive
UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (4) Madman, Happerry, eS, Stabby
UF-MRLS-46 'Diana' Mine Deploying MRLS Rocket: (0)

[Kot]

Pegleg is funny enough I'd seriously consider it, lol.

[Madman198237]

Artemis won't work well---wooden cases will remove all the power of our AT mines (explosives need containment to build proper pressure), and the artillery-deployed mines are going to land upside-down, hard, all the time...which is not a good thing.


Anyway I just copied eS's name because I am unimaginative like that. I need to add something about simultaneously priming all the mines in a set, so I'll just rename the thing Pegleg because it's hilarious.

EDIT: Edited earlier post, eS if you would update your quote

I basically just added a line about how the mines are armed by a mechanism in the dispersal unit (instead of by hand before takeoff....which would be remarkably stupid), and also renamed it.

[ConscriptFive]

...the Chinese did it, and the Syrians have been using them today.  You basically just turn the mines into finned lawn darts.  Parachutes are kinda an overly complicated way to go.  Drag or other fins are the easy way.  The PFM-1 is basically just a rubber maple seed filled with binary explosive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_84_mine
http://armamentresearch.com/type-84-scatterable-anti-tank-mines-in-syria/

[evictedSaint]

...yeah...Blackcat is almost as stupid and boring as "Firecracker".  Good idea to change it.

[Kot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Bomb

Parachutes are certainly not needed. The "brakes" can be metal.