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Undercharged defensive mines intended to crush attacking mine galleries or loosen soil through which an attacking mine gallery would have to pass were also called camouflets.
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January, 2003 August, 2005 |
Usually
associated with defensive mines a camouflet was a small explosive charge
packed into a hole drilled from a mine defensive gallery toward a hostile
mine gallery. It was designed to fill the hostile mine gallery with deadly
fumes when the charge was exploded, filling the hostile mine with deadly
fumes that would suffocate miners working the gallery and prevent the gallery
from being re-entered by hostile miners. Its destructive effect on the gallery
itself was supposed to be negliable so that the mine gallery from which the
camouflet was exploded would not suffer serious damage and could continue
in use.
