M96 Bandicoot Mine Laying Vehicle

"We were gone for ONE night! How did those primatives mine eight square kilometers around the valley?"

- Brute Captain

The M96 Chiroptera Mine Laying Vehicle is a Coyote CVR series vehicle, built on the lengthened chassis of the Camel, designed to seed an area with land mines of varying kinds. The system consists of modular dispensers which can be fired to either side or to the rear, mounted on six sets of turntables on a flat bed version of the Stormer Armoured Personnel Carrier. It uses either conventional weight actived anti tank mines, the M320 Anti Tank Mine, useful against armoured vehicles using treads or wheels, though being phased out in favour of the M341 Anti Tank Mine that use a mixture of pressure, magnetic induction and vibrations to detect vehicles and vent almost a dozen incediary flechettes into the underbelly of a armoured vehicle via an explosive charge. These catch fire inside it and burn it internally. It also fires M121 Bounding Anti Personnel Mine which bound up when the sensor network detects a hostile combatant and sprays their direction with tungsten fragments. These mines are carried in canisters, (each of which hold six mines with up to 40 canisters), and are carried on a launcher rack. These are on the rear of the Stormer flatbed and discharge the anti-tank mines either side as the vehicle moves across the terrain. A dispenser control unit provides fire signals, testing and arming of the self-destruct mechanism. Also, these mines can be activated and deactivated with 1000 digit codes to allow firnedlies to pass throguh the field, along with IFF detection and querying. This means they cannot be bombarded with random codes to simply deactivate them.

UNSC Remarks
"When we got word of the Necros armour pressing to Kasiim, we just mined that whole region in half a hour. Four kilometers MINED. It was awesome."