{"id":49706,"date":"2022-12-12T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49706"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T23:07:40","slug":"the-spanish-marine-infantry-shows-the-impressive-conger-demining-device-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/12\/the-spanish-marine-infantry-shows-the-impressive-conger-demining-device-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Marine Infantry shows the impressive Conger demining device in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with which a military force is usually found in the area of operations is the booby traps placed on highways and roads.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/10\/sappers-of-the-spanish-army-show-their-bangalore-torpedoes-in-action-in-latvia\/\">Sappers of the Spanish Army show their Bangalore torpedoes in action in Latvia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/01\/the-training-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-in-four-high-quality-videos\/\">The training of the Spanish Marine Infantry in four high-quality videos<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Those traps range from anti-personnel or anti-vehicle landmines to improvised explosive devices (IEDs). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/10\/sappers-of-the-spanish-army-show-their-bangalore-torpedoes-in-action-in-latvia\/\">We have already seen the Bangalore torpedoes here<\/a>, used for many years by various armies to clear obstacles, but <strong>to clear paths with booby traps there is another system: the Conger device or MCLC<\/strong> (mine-clearing line charge). <\/p>\n<p>This system, which began to be used in World War II, is made up of <strong>a line of explosive charges in the form of a cord, which is fired from a rocket<\/strong> towards the path to be cleared. The device explodes on reaching the ground, setting off any booby traps that might be in the way.<strong> There are portable Conger devices<\/strong>, which can be operated by one or two soldiers to clear smaller paths, <strong>and there are also larger ones<\/strong>, which go in vehicles or on trailers and are used to clear wider and longer roads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spanish Navy has published today a video of the exercise FTX BRIMAR 22 of the Spanish Marine Infantry<\/strong>, carried out recently, in which we can see the Conger demining system in action. I take this opportunity to say that the video is of excellent quality, congratulations once again to the Navy for the videos it is making:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FTX RESUMEN EJERCICIO BRIMAR 22\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBY7Xh7eSx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see some screenshots of the video. <strong>The video begins by showing booby trap detection systems<\/strong>, which use metal detectors, dual detectors, large loop detectors, and magnetometers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52560048193_d483035287_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A sapper preparing the Conger demining device.<\/strong> The cordon with the explosive charges is stored in a rectangular backpack. Bottom center we see the rocket launcher that powers these charges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52559500371_703be0ffd0_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\"Charge activated and ignited. Fire! Fire! Fire!\"<\/strong> A sapper activates the Conger device's launcher and quickly runs for cover.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52559798334_53c589f3c5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Marine watching the launch of the Conger device.<\/strong> The rocket is seen lifting the cordon of explosives toward the path to be cleared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52560048173_0b8bf70e64_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The impressive explosion of the Conger device <\/strong> upon reaching the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52559973250_9804c65d10_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with which a military force is usually found in the area of operations is the booby traps placed on highways and roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11545],"tags":[18061,12858,10669],"class_list":["post-49706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-navy","tag-conger-demining-system","tag-spanish-marine-infantry","tag-spanish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}