herseyjh said:http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/05/4394957-sun.html
Surprised to read about this. From the picture I am trying to work out what type of mine it is.
Kat Stevens said:Looks more like an old British Mk 7 A/Tk mine to my failing eyes and fading memory.
CDN Aviator said:I would agree with you there......
Kat Stevens said:Looks more like an old British Mk 7 A/Tk mine to my failing eyes and fading memory.
Kat Stevens said:About the eyes and memory, or the mine? ;D
PMed said:I'm no expert but from the picture it looks like maybe an M6A2 or M15? My first impression was that it looked like a training mine, you know, no real defining features. Any thoughts?
Retired AF Guy said:If I remember correctly from my basic training many moons ago, practice mines were painted blue and had holes through them.
Old Sweat said:It can't be a mine; we outlawed mines. (Hangun banners take note.)
Sarcasm meter off.
The government contracted most of the major industries to produce supplies for the War. In Strathroy, the Woolen Mills produced blankets for the troops and in 1943, the government bought 95% of the Mills’ blankets. Somerville Ltd., which had produced shipping tubes before the war, began making shells.
"I'm sure a lot of our older citizens are going to feel saddened," said David
Goode, former curator of the Strathroy-Middlesex Museum. "During both World
Wars, that is where our soldiers departed and it's where they arrived home."
Recce By Death said:Ummm.....we stopped using anti pers mines, nothing about anti tank
As for the authenticity of the mines in the pictures, I'll leave that to the Engineers on this site to discuss. Mind you I (and many other here) have trained with dummy and practice mines in the past and they have been painted either blue or gold with "DUMMY" in either white or black.
Regards
MCG said:Blue & Gold are NATO standards for training & inert. Anything older may have fully different meanings.
Blue can still kill or maim. Blue is training & not necessarily inert.