Minefield Detecting, Breaching, and Clearing

Question 1

1. What is the land mine band treaty?

Answer 1

Ottawa treaty. It requires self-neutralize mechanism.

Question 2

2. What are the four methods of detecting mines?

Answer 2

Encountering a mine
Visual detection
Manual probing
Electronic mine detectors

Question 3

3. What is the least preferred mine detecting method?

Answer 3

Encountering a mine

Question 4

4. What is the most preferred mine detecting method?

Answer 4

Visual detection

Question 5

5. What is the only sure method to detect mines?

Answer 5

Manual probing

Question 6

What are the probing techniques?

Answer 6

a) check for trip wire
b) probe at a 30 degree angle
c) probe every 2 inches (5 cm)
d) probe one meter wide lane

Question 7

7. What are the two types of mine detectors?

Answer 7

Metallic
Non-metallic

Neither one works well in the rain

Question 8

8. How deep thermal sight on vehicle can detect mine?

Answer 8

Subsurface up to 6”

Question 9

9. What are some current mine detectors?

Answer 9

AN/PSS-12
F1A4 Minelab
AN/PSS-14 Handheld standoff minefield detection system (HSAMIDS)

Question 10

10. What is the standoff between mine detect teams?

Answer 10

50 meters

Question 11

11. Which mine detector has ground penetrating radar capability?

Answer 11

HSAMIDS

Question 12

12. What are some alternate mine detectors?

Answer 12

Civilian, stud finders, and metal detectors used by police

Question 13

13. What is DA form 1355?

Answer 13

Mine/Demo recording form

Question 14

14. What is minimum caliber requirement to destroy mine in place? What type of rounds should be used

Answer 14

7.62mm, must hit the target

AP or tracer

Question 15

15. How long do you wait after pulling the mine with a rope?

Answer 15

Minimum 1 min for Anti-Handing Devices

Question 16

16. Who has authorization on use of chemical weapons?

Answer 16

Theater command (4 star general)

Question 17

17. What is the weight pressure that initiate land mine?

Answer 17

Between 300 to 500 lbs

Question 18

18. Describe marking and bypass procedures of land mine

Answer 18

a) Mark the mine or area
b) Report 8 digit grid coordinate of the corners of the mine field
c) Use DA 1355
d) Find a way around the mined area

Question 19

19. What are mine safety precautions?

Answer 19

Dispersion, Consider all mines Booby-trapped, Do not Run, move only in cleared areas

Question 20

20. How wide are lanes cleared? What will the necessary size depend on?

Answer 20

Assault footpath: 1 meters
Initial lane: 4.5 meters
Single lane: 4.5 meters
Double lane: 10 meters

Size of breaching force
Depth and density of minefield
Type and amount of equipment available

Question 21

21. What are the three method of assault breaching?

Answer 21

Mechanical, explosive, and manual

Question 22

22. What is the only method of disposal UXO?

Answer 22

As an 18C, only method is Blow in Place

Question 23

24. What is APOBS charge?

Answer 23

150 long line charge is packed with 108 M67 fragmentation hand grenade

Question 24

25. How wide APOBS will clear?

Answer 24

Path will be 1 meter wide and 45 meters long

Question 25

26. What is the Nomenclature of the MICLIC? What is the path clearance with MICLIC?

Answer 25

M58A1, M58A2 Rocket propelled line charge 106.5m long, clears a 14 by 100 meter path

Question 26

27. What is the number one hazard when dealing with mines?

Answer 26

Anti-Handling / Anti-Tamper devices

Question 27

Special technique for visually detecting mines

Answer 27

Using thermal sights

Question 28

Likely signs of mine emplacement

Answer 28

Anything out of the norm

Question 29

Likely locations of mine emplacement

Answer 29

Anywhere your team is likely to go

Question 30

Preparation for probing

Answer 30

Remove all metallic objects Helmet LBE and weapon Roll up sleeves Select a nonmetallic probe

Question 31

Components of AN/PSS12

Answer 31

Electronics unit Search head with telescopic pole Headphones

Question 32

How high should the AN/PSS12 head be off the ground?

Answer 32

2 in

Question 33

Sweeping speed for AN/PSS12

Answer 33

3 feet per second

Question 34

How much width does the AN/PSS12 clear?

Answer 34

Width of lane swept is 3 meters, this clears 2 meters

Question 35

What is the minimum distance between AN/PSS12 search heads?

Answer 35

6 meters

Question 36

F1A4 Minelab lane width

Answer 36

1.5 to 2 meters

Question 37

What percentage of mines does the HSTAMIDS find?

Answer 37

96% of nonmetallic mines

Question 38

Methods for dealing with mines? What does this depend on?

Answer 38

Marked and bypassed Detonated in place Pulled out by rope Neutralized and removed Location of mine Identity of mine and fuse Tactical situation

Question 39

Methods for Detonation in Place

Answer 39

Hand placed charges Grapnel Burn off vegetation Weapons fire

Question 40

Mechanical breaching methods

Answer 40

Mine rollers Mine plows Mine clearing blades Combat engineer vehicle with rake (CEV)

Question 41

Name of trucks for mines? Robot for mines?

Answer 41

Buffalo, Arkvark, MCAT | Matilda

Question 42

Explosive breaching methods

Answer 42

Bangalore torpedo (M1A1/M1A2) Antipersonnel obstacle breaching system (APOBS) Mongoose (Explosive Standoff Mine Breacher) MILIC (Explosive Line Charge)

Question 43

Dimensions of a Mongoose path?

Answer 43

14 by 100m

Question 44

Dimensions of a Bangalore torpedo path?

Answer 44

1m wide by 15m long

Question 45

How many tubes are in a Bangalore torpedo kit?

Answer 45

10 tubes

Question 46

What is the rate that Bangalore torpedo kits can be used to clear a minefield?

Answer 46

3.5-4.5 man hours per 100 meters

Question 47

Methods of manual breaching

Answer 47

Probing Mine detectors Dogs Visual Will not cover more than 500m per hour