Only if by push you mean several tons of metal ramming into it, yeah. I doubt a human could set it off even if they wanted to. They don’t want these mines going odd every time a seal, or driftwood, or whatever runs into it. They want it to go off when a large military vessel hits it.
Good point in general, altho there’s also statistically the chance of manufacturing defect or accruing damage en situ. I have zero problem with these guys being very careful with both the rods and attending to the innards…
Only if by push you mean several tons of metal ramming into it, yeah. I doubt a human could set it off even if they wanted to. They don’t want these mines going odd every time a seal, or driftwood, or whatever runs into it. They want it to go off when a large military vessel hits it.
Apparently you can roll them down a mountain without detonating… Well until it runs into a tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJCfeipvIQ
Good point in general, altho there’s also statistically the chance of manufacturing defect or accruing damage en situ. I have zero problem with these guys being very careful with both the rods and attending to the innards…