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Originally Posted by Oberon
If it works! 
I recall some bright spark came up with the idea of the 'Bocage buster' in WWII, didn't always enable the tank to go through first time:
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...4-Sherman-tank (ignore the wording of the URL, whoever wrote it obviously didn't know what he was writing about...)
But it worked!
I also like the wooden boards on the side for avoiding magnetic devices.  |
Yes there where several versions of hedge row busters some worked others did not.
The Germans had Zimmerit anti-magnetic paste which is what the pattern that you see on later war German tanks was the paste.Of course as the war progressed German armor become more brittle because they did not have a source of the minerals that make steel strong but bot brittle.
Wood was actually smarter as an anti-magnetic because it would have been easier to repair.I also understand that the Zimmerit was often of poor quality and tended to flake off.