We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Okay, I was mean with that one. Starting with this, and then posting this unhelpful help. But ya perservered, finally, with Chris and Trias getting it to a land mine. It's a British No. 6 Anti-personnel mine. I hesitate to say this... it's 7.5 inches long, which will no doubt encourage... oh never mind. Now that Mike L can see the whole thing, he's laughing his butt off! There *is* at least one reference to it on the web (two, now). Developed during WWII as a low-metal, hard-to-detect anti-personnel mine, it's made of bakelite, and the only iron/steel in it... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:13:16 -0600 Trying SO hard to be a good gurl.... SO hard. rats. How can I be good? I can't even write one sentence without "hard" in it.... TWICE. *sigh* Well, I least I didn't get into "red", "stiff", "long", "up" or "blow"... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-49037 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-49037 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:25:12 -0600 The end with the safety pin in it is the part that was "up." Stepping on that part pushed the plunger down and initiated the mine. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-48995 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-48995 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:38:10 -0600 AFSis is gunna have a ball. I can't believe my wild guess got it. I'm trying to figure out where they tread i guess the base bit and the er head is used to push into soil? and to think AFSis.. the hard red thing even blows from a foot or something. [PG 17c stealth mode activated] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-48994 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/that_whatzis_answered.html#comment-48994 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:33:29 -0600