asciilifeform: the pegs are standoffs - shaped charge requires them
asciilifeform: if you can get close enough to the tank - any tank, even modern one - it will work great...
asciilifeform: PeterL: dunno, never tried personally
asciilifeform: the message, presumably, being 'we will die gloriously'
asciilifeform: there is an interesting clip somewhere on the net of the vietnamese army, some time in the era of ho chi minh, marching around proudly with these (presumably captured from jp forces in ww2)
asciilifeform: PeterL: yes. also known as the 'lunge mine'. it had no delay fuse at all!
asciilifeform: and ru navy had only picrin (on account of tnp having killed their top armaments designer, when he experimented personally) and to this is often attributed the loss in 1907
asciilifeform: jp lost more than one ship to own 'shimoza' (trinitrophenol) shell magazines
asciilifeform: and we are likely to see recognizable riffs on this theme as usg rockets along its path to the bunker of '45.
asciilifeform: but wunderwaffen-warfare is ~largely~ this kind of thing.
asciilifeform: historians like to expound on the 'sexy' wunderwaffen, rather than this.
asciilifeform: instead of civilized brissant explosives (e.g., trinitrotoluene, hexagen, etc)
asciilifeform: and there was an interesting bit about how germany switched to producing the obsolete and suicidally unstable trinitrophenol in 1944
asciilifeform: i've been reading a ru treatise on mines (the kind that undermined castle walls, and the kind that explode, rather than the kind where dwarves toil)
asciilifeform: the economics of wunderwaffen are a fascinating mixture of crackpottery, legit invention, and lunatic desperation
asciilifeform: a tireless educator of Bitcoin novices. And his most passionate vituperations were aimed at the people he is now leaving behind. Bitcoin failed, he wrote, “because the community has failed.”'
asciilifeform: 'This one, however, is different from the rest. The person throwing dirt over the coffin last week was not an outsider, as has most often been the case. It was not some mainstream economist who just “doesn’t get it.” It was not a misinformed journalist fishing for clicks. It was Mike Hearn, a former Google developer, the guy who wrote the first java implementation of Bitcoin. He’s a regular presence at conferences and
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american standards org.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had the tits thing. similar !
asciilifeform: and then same, layed out using heads.
