Reply #107: Pretty much...

[newyorican]

also looking at the wreckage one can see the armor shell was split in two and there was no fireball (eg. charring). There are not many manufacturers of these devices. If there was charring then it would have been a "Volcano" antiarmor mine which attempts to burn through the armor shell. Those are not as effective as a RAAMS.

This was no mine from a distribution (scatter) system. One of the reports indicated witnesses describing a thin gray wire leading from the blast site to a small concrete room by the roadside. The wires are actually translucent, but can easily look gray to the casual glance or when covered with dust. In addition, any scatter system would render the eletric eye trip beam useless. The electric eye beam is key in insuring the mine detonates in-between the front and rear axle. Not easy to do manually with moving vehicles while trying to stay hidden.

I have seen many of these systems demonstrated at military trade shows. My line of work involves satcom and encryption so I go to a lot of military hardware shows and demonstrations to peddle my wares.