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Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery
To my knowledge, Canada still has AP mines and can use them. (perhaps no longer Cdn made?)
. BUT they can only be deployed and activated in situations where visual obs can confirm enemy activity ..and i believe, manually operated....and not the typical left in the ground indiscriminately activated mines.
can someone confirm- deny
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Early in the Afghan war there was a news story about the camp defences in Kabul. Somehow the presence of "mines" was mentioned. I was working in HQ in Ottawa at the time, and watched a CANSOF major speak very directly to a full colonel or BGen about this. He was responsible for those defences when the story was based. There were no AP landmines. There were however, command detonated defensive mines. The use of Claymores hit the news for real when a soldier was killed on a badly run range.
2-12-2010; Baker, Joshua Caleb Corporal; 24; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry); Canadian Army; Alberta; Edmonton; Non-hostile - explosion (claymore mine); Kandahar; Afghanistan
http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/Natio...?hndQry=Canada