[Spktyr]

It should be mentioned that this is technically banned by a number of anti-mine treaties (of which we’re not signatories, but still should be noted).

That’s not a bad idea either, but you’re looking at either artillery launched carriers or needing air superiority for the ground attack aircraft to deploy such munitions. It would also be problematic (or pointless) to deploy in urban circumstances. However, tanks are increasingly gaining underbelly armoring or deflection due to the IED/mine threat so how long that sort of thing will remain useful is up in the air.

One interesting idea I’ve seen is to basically stick an EFP device on top of a remote controlled car and drive it under the tank to detonate. It’d be somewhat limited in use, but it would help solve the problem unsupported infantry would have against tanks with APS.

[archy]

It should be mentioned that this is technically banned by a number of anti-mine treaties (of which we’re not signatories, but still should be noted).

Why spoil the beauty of a thing with legalities?

-- Attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt, Circa 1909, and delivered by actor Brian Keith, portraying Roosevelt in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion.

That’s not a bad idea either, but you’re looking at either artillery launched carriers or needing air superiority for the ground attack aircraft to deploy such munitions. It would also be problematic (or pointless) to deploy in urban circumstances. However, tanks are increasingly gaining underbelly armoring or deflection due to the IED/mine threat so how long that sort of thing will remain useful is up in the air.

One of the *twofinger* projects developed for a potential Polish underground during the Solidarity/Solidarność days of the Reagan area was a *tank Claymore*, essentially the warhead from a Rockeye antitank cluster bomblet fitted with a detonator and electrical detonation wires and firing upward, and with the guidance fins and nose detonator standoff probe omitted.

A silenced submachinegun with only eight moving parts, a two-shot over/under M79-type 40mm grenade launcher with double-action trigger made of plastic and stainless steel sheet metal and other such novelties were developed, all with the idea that millions could be cranked out in a month or two. The Soviets got to wonder if Reagan really would have given the production go-ahead if they'd come down heavily on the Poles, and later, the East Germans.

And they did not. And the wall came down. Long live Free Poland.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.