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Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by nimbius on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:52AM (#33519588)
Give me 25lbs of easy mix Dexpan and a hammer drill, and ill show you a gravel pit in about three hours.
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by MagnumOpus on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:55AM (#33519626)
Three hours are a very long time when pounded with artillery or raked with automatic arms...
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:57AM (#33519646)
You're going to survive three hours of pre-targeted direct or indirect fire?
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by ISL on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:59AM (#33519678)
TIL about Dexpan. Clever idea.

Also, as sibling says, good luck hammer-drilling under fire.

Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by mattkrause on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:25PM (#33521596)
Do you need the hammer-drill if you can coax the OPFOR into firing onto their own fortifications?
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by arethuza on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:56AM (#33519641)
Didn't someone make a similar comment about Cheyenne Mountain and SS-18s with 25Mt warheads?
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by piva00 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:56AM (#33520380)
You forgot the 3 hours of complete ceasefire you will require.
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by 6stringmerc on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:53AM (#33521189)
How would this work in very thick clay like I have here in Texas? Caliche is the native term.
Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by gamblor956 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:09PM (#33522155)
For those talking about the "3 hours under fire": Dexpan is an expanding cement that cracks concrete over a few hours.

Once placed into a hole or crack, you don't need to hang around to do anything.

The reason for the hammer drill is to make holes in the dragon's teeth to put the Dexpan into. For that, you only a minute per tooth, and it doesn't matter where you put the hole, so you can use the teeth as cover from defensive fire while you drill.

Re:Dragon’s Teeth – Stopping Tanks in Their Tracks by mcguire on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:32PM (#33523194)
Somehow, this sounds like one of those "use paintballs to blind enemy tanks" things that work out better in theory than practice.

A snazzy demo video for an anti-personnel artillery round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G18Rwoa7c1kt25

The demo starts at :20 or so.