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Arma 3 | How to Disable Minefields [A guide to Mines]
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hi guys Luton here and we're back on
arma 3 now today I'm gonna be taking a
look at mines now mines of something
that you come across not very frequently
in ARMA 3 but when you do it's something
that people are often kind of unprepared
for they don't know necessarily how to
deal with them and I saw this recently
on an I on a mission and I saw four or
five guys running into a minefield just
getting destroyed by them and you can
get around it very easily you need to
carry a mine detector in your kit I'm
going to take a look at this right here
and you can see that here we have our
mine detector now I'm actually an
explosive specialist right now an
explosive specialist is the only class
that can actually disarm mines can
deactivate them okay no other class can
deactivate a mine even if you have a
mine detector however other classes can
destroy mines
however again you can only do that in
certain ways grenades will not set off
or destroy them some helicopters go
ahead ah now here we go we have had a
mine appear using our mine detector now
I have placed a range of the most common
kinds of mine that you will find in the
game around this area and we're going to
go through them all now I'm walking
because again you want to be careful now
what you can see right here you can see
we've got a tripwire mine you can tell
that because you can see the line here
now again if you didn't have a mine
detector these are visible mines in fact
all of the mines here are visible to an
extent so if you know there is a
minefield in the area you can be careful
and look for them now again this won't
go off until we get within a certain
region of it and this little X comes up
that means we're close enough to
potentially disarmed it it's got the pin
at one in which the wire is attached to
and if we move around this is obviously
the mine itself now that is often the
thing that is hidden out of view but you
will always be able to see that however
it can be lower or higher to the ground
so basically the way we would disarm
this is to just go down here and go
deactivate right on a scroll wheel you
see at the top there deactivate now
tripwire mines unfortunately are pain in
the ass to diffuse because firing
directly at the mine seems to really not
detonate them and I'll
straight this to you right now with
other minds just a shot at them will
actually take them down but with the
tripwire mines it seems to have less an
effect I've changed out my weapon you'll
notice as well because you know when I'm
basically going for mine destruction you
want something that's going to be very
very accurate and sort of do the job so
well I've got this here's the ketubah
6.5 of an SOS scope and I also have a
Night Stalker scope the night stalkers
good because it's good for seeing mines
sort of picked out from the ground
except I'll show you that later but
right now so here we are here's the mine
right ahead and you'll see that when I
fire this is within range so look it's
hitting right on target so if I fire out
the mine
see that's not doing anything again you
can try and hit the wire as well but so
theoretically it's not doing anything
and as I understand it they are
destructible with rounds but it doesn't
seem to be working really so if you're
not a mine specialist and you can't
disarm just going to put myself in I'm
standing walk you want to be in walk
mode so that you can be very careful and
you don't have to worry about how you
approach so what I'm going to do to get
step forward about that don't really
want to go any further forward than that
okay what I'm going to do is I'm going
to place an explosive charge and then
retreat to a safe distance and this will
clear that mine out for me okay and then
we're going to touch off line destroyed
successfully so that's one down now
let's go on and look at some others now
the mine now we can see already just
from our vision there are a couple of
mines up ahead you can actually see
these buried in the ground okay there's
one versus the other
so another one I don't know I have one
there one there and then also we've got
these guys right here these are the
Slams of course you'll recognize those
from battlefield as well so let's go up
here now
these here these are anti-tank mines
they're quite safe so they won't
detonate for us and not designed for
human contact so again we can disarm
these quite easily and deactivate if
your personnel you don't need to worry
about them okay I'll leave that one as
is the slams similarly are not designed
to hurt people always feel somewhat
worrying there when you one passed them
but again the mind these are not
designed for people so you deactivate
those again but I just demonstrate as
well these should be destructible I'm
going to move back a little because the
explosions for these are designed to
destroy vehicles okay and again using
our scope on this you can try and get a
hit on this sky
these can take a little bit more to
destroy okay it's a slam I'm just going
to get a slightly better line the 18
lines are so buried in the ground it
requires a little bit better line of
sight so much you're going to go above
and fire down on them I'll just cut this
back okay now I'm up here I've got a
better line of sight and part of being
explosive specialist is always taking
these things to consideration right so
here is the mine there we go finally
goes down those ones require obviously
as you would understand a little bit of
fire putting into them because after all
they are anti-tank mines and so they are
designed to take quite a bit of pressure
before they in fact explode so that's
why we take a little bit more there okay
moving on so those are two sort of
vehicle based mines
okay so moving on now we're going to
look at another type of mind and these
are really the nasty minds you can see
we're already detecting two Minds up
ahead and I can actually see one through
just my peripheral vision right here
there we go we can see one right there
sticking out of the ground and these are
APRs minds they're basically
anti-personnel mines and these ones are
actually their weight sensitive you can
see they have a little sensor sticking
out so basically you can get pretty
close to these without them detonating
but as soon as you get within very close
proximity they will detonate it's quite
dangerous to try and evade any of these
kind of minds they are destructible by
firing at them or explosive charges yet
again we can see this one right here I'm
going to try and deactivate it I want to
demonstrate and we can see it sticking
in the ground I want to demonstrate that
as an explosive specialist you can
deactivate these now it going to be very
very careful there we are I don't want
to get any closer than I have to okay so
they were going to deactivate that there
is deactivated we're going to do the
other one very very careful there we go
now the last one I'm going to try and
destroy just a demo that you can if at
all possible
and we can't see that there but the mine
detector is there so theoretically you
can I can just about see it through that
grass you can see look at the scopes way
of this range this is why bipods would
be very helpful in arma 3 let's try and
hit this thing there we go two rounds
and down and no damage to me that's
basically if you're not an explosive
specialist the way you're going to want
to deal with these mines you need to
have a good scope so you can sit back
and be accurate and that mine is gone
right let's go on and look at the last
kind of mine and these are pretty much
the worst kind of anti-personnel mines
and they're the kind of mines that you
will generally find in minefields around
for example radio towers in invade and
annex they are very very nasty and
there's only one real way to deal with
them technically they could be
deactivated but because they're
basically proximity they feel the
movement of you going near them they are
unable to be deactivated and I'm happy
to demo that by killing myself on
perhaps the last one there we go now I'm
going to show you a little slightly
hockey trick when it comes to destroying
these things now as you can see they're
hidden in the long grass and I'm just
moving carefully around trying to detect
whether they are now we got four so I
know this for now again we can't see
these very easily at all and I don't
really want any closer than this I can
see that one right there yeah you can
see this guy now that's what they look
like they're basically these little
cylinders that stick out of the ground
and they're no bigger than the other
ones they are far far more explosive you
have to be a good distance away I'm
talking a good 50 meters minimum if you
are any closer than that and you try to
detonate them in any way they will hurt
you quite badly it's very surprising how
powerful these things are run off right
I'm going to get up on this hill a
little so I'm going to get much further
away than I have done previously because
these things are so
dangerous now here is a little trick
basically obviously the grass renders on
the game in you know close proximity
when you are further away the grass
doesn't render quite so well and so now
we can actually see these very very
easily sticking out of the ground so a
little bit of a cheat there but it's
definitely a good way of protecting
yourself however that doesn't actually
matter because we have the red warning
triangles now the red warning triangles
are actually pretty good in terms of
because as you can see most of the red
warning triangles they actually start at
this range here sort of at the tip of
the mine you see that so if you aim for
the top of the triangle more often than
not if you sort of site your gun on the
top of the triangle you're going to hit
there or just below that's at you're
going to detonate the mine so I don't
know what range about right here but I'm
going to assume that 300 is probably
about right so we can estimate obviously
where the bullets hitting anyway let's
try and hit on these yeah there we go
that's about right
oh it's just a little above taking a
breath wish I had a bipod here we go
that's one down safely and I'm gonna get
for the next guy it is so you can see
they destroyed quite easily once you've
actually detected them and you know
where they're going to be at okay let's
go for this one
yeah target down again so again you can
see you can clear these out pretty
quickly they're not dangerous in terms
and they're not they're not difficult to
clear it's just knowing how to clear
them and getting a line of sight down on
them I mean if you're trying to fire
like this and you're sort of almost at
the same level as the mine that's it's
possible right but it's much more
difficult than doing it close up now I'm
going to show you how these are not
disarmed abour basically let's just go
in now I'm going to be so careful I'm
going to try and get anything now look
at look at the distance we're at now
remember where those other minds were
destructible or dishonorable from rather
so you see it's basically impossible to
disarm them you cannot get look at the
distance there that was a good sort of I
don't know five meters you can't get
anywhere near these things so don't even
try and that OSHA should be a warning
for you when you're trying to go into a
minefield I have actually managed in the
past to negotiate a minefield without a
mind detector but it's unbelievably
dangerous to do and it's very very hard
to do trying to actually get lucky
enough to get through it's just it's
just a non thing so you need somebody
when you're going out if you're going to
be doing radio towers on AI na you need
to have someone in your squad who has a
mind detector so that you guys can
safely clear mines they don't appear on
every single time but it will appear on
you know I don't know a good sort of 50
percent of the radio towers that you
engage with but anyway regardless that's
a little hint there about those and the
other mines it just shows you how to
detonate them remember that you can
actually destroy most mines just by
firing at them okay but tripwire mines
much better to destroy them with
explosives and again the you know the
eighteen mines and stuff they can be
totally destroyed but with a gun but
it's you know it's as well you can just
use explosives if it's a bit easier for
you so there we go guys I hope that
helps you out with mines today let me
know your thoughts below and if you have
any other questions about armor things
you're not sure about things you don't
know how to do drop that below and I'll
try and cover it as well so thanks for
watching today guys I'll see you next
time for some more armor 3
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