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Originally Posted by Bestbrian
Didn't we send these guys any mine clearing line charges?
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Sure, Ukraine's been using them at least since November. But each launcher is limited to 200 meters of charge per hour (half an hour required between launches, each MICLIC clears an area 100 meters long and 8 meters wide). With the depth of some of the minefields, that's a minimum of 80 hours of continuous MICLIC use (and 160 charges) to clear 16 kilometers of mines. Meanwhile, the enemy has made targeting the launchers a priority because hitting one while it's carrying just under a ton of explosives causes a good bit of damage to anything in the general vicinity of the launcher. That makes using multiple launchers to speed things up a bit hairy, because hitting one is likely to take out multiple vehicles.
TL;DR version - MICLICs are great against shallow minefields or ones hastily put together. Against minefields that have been laid in depth over the course of months, they're still useful, but not able to cause total breaches quickly.