Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

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[threedoor]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Those are big mines, probably anti-tank. I wonder if this thing saw service in the Korean DMZ, if so it may have helped keep one Million Chinese and Korean communists north of the 48th parallel.

[Matt Cramer]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

The scariest thing about it is the cheerful tone of the voice-over.

[Bamfster]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Makes you wonder, if it was used, how many mines are still "planted" in the old war zones?

[BBR]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Need a DMZ and mine planters along our border....

[rjfscorpio711]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Some thought the cheerful tone of the narrator was scary. What I think is scary is how many failed prototypes did they make until they got one that worked and who was stupid enough to be the test driver?

[Cyclone03.1]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Who had the job of tapping down that big Divot?

[Matt Cramer]

Re: Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

Some thought the cheerful tone of the narrator was scary. What I think is scary is how many failed prototypes did they make until they got one that worked and who was stupid enough to be the test driver?

The testing probably wasn't too difficult, just substitute fake mines that smoke or make noise when they're "set off" until you've got the bugs worked out.