How do I actually use D-Mines on enemy vehicles?

[Skirlasvoud]

Mission 9 "Backup Back down" I thought, would be the perfect place to start using D-Mines. However, much to my suprise, the enemy vehicles I'm supposed to stop seem to drive over them without them actually going off or doing any harm at all.

Anything I'm doing wrong?

[Chewiechanga]

D-mines from what I remember is anti-personel directional mines, they won't activate on vehicles.

In other means, it's the claymore mine of MGS universe, only with laser detection trigger instead of wire.

[joxertm22]

Dunno what's D mine, never used it anywhere.

Use ATB (to destroy) or EMN (to disable then fulton) mines in that mission.

[Rabidnid]

They are supposed to be both in the description. I got them to go off once versus a tank. I just think the vehicle has to practically run over them for them to go off. I just grabbed a crewed APC with a fulton so that might work if you can sneak up on them.

You do get to research a big anti tank mine as well, which I haven't used as yet.

[Ri0Rdian]

Yeah, the description mentions vehicles, but I call that a bs. I have seen it is basically a claymore and that would hurt a jeep maybe (but probably not destroy it) IRL, I doubt it works this way in the game...against apc or a tank...yeah, it is basically throwing stones at their armor. Just ignore what the game tells you, it is a tad insane sometimes.
Get one of the other 2 mines there are or just C4 it. If you are lucky, skilled like hell and rich you could try artillery strike too.

[Ri0Rdian]

Which basically means don't use them, not worth it just to stop them, there are many other way to do it.

Edit:
Anyone knows how the armor damage is calculated? Will I do more damage for a hit to the side or back and flat area than front?

[Sidewinder]

I was curious about D-Mines too so I played with them a bit. The trigger seems to work fine against personnel, but against vehicles they have to literally hit the mine with their tires/tracks. I did get a jeep to trigger a D-Mine that wasn't even facing the right direction; the jeep got lit on fire and blew up about 5-8 seconds later, so pretty much a one shot on jeeps. Also got one to go off on an APC type of vehicle, the one with the 40mm cannon, he definitely took damage but I'd say it's only equal to about one direct grenade hit, because after that I just tossed grenades on top of him and it took maybe one less than normal, I wasn't really counting at that point.

[Skirlasvoud]

You need to blow up a lot of vehicles in "Backup, Back Down" (That or set up a clever barricade like I later discovered) so I too continued experimenting with D-mines.

Seems that C4 + a single D-Mine, will take down an APC by setting it on fire and burning it down. The C4 will trigger the D-mine to blow up alongside it.

That's all the use I can see against vehicles. In a mix with C4, it will save you having to fire on a vehicle you wish to take down with explosive ambush.

[LarethianAUS]

I was doing the early mission to blow up the tanks and kill the colonel the one that spawns them as soon as you pickup the intel from that cliffside village place.

Anyway i set up an ambush just outside the town around the corner i layed out all 8 mines right next to each other in a line so the first tank would hit them, i then parked my jeep ahead of it abit and placed 12 c4 randomly along the road, i went into the village collected the documents sprinted back and waited on the rocks to use the c4, i found that me entering the town despawned my mines but not c4, its similar to the 200+ meter thing i found when doing the commander from 100+ meters away objective.

i was 243 meters from the building he is in, i could see inside the first floor window and no one was there, i then sniped everyone i could see with 12.7mm which where only about 6 guys all up, i then moved forward because no amount of scouting from quiet found anyone else, once i hit around 140ish meters suddenly everyone else spawned and i could lie down and snipe everyone again, dead bodies around and no one cared/wasnt alerted.

There's alot of different things that happen/despawn/spawn when you get a save checkpoint by entering/leaving a town or outpost.

[Rabidnid]

Originally posted by LarethianAUS:

I was doing the early mission to blow up the tanks and kill the colonel the one that spawns them as soon as you pickup the intel from that cliffside village place.

Anyway i set up an ambush just outside the town around the corner i layed out all 8 mines right next to each other in a line so the first tank would hit them, i then parked my jeep ahead of it abit and placed 12 c4 randomly along the road, i went into the village collected the documents sprinted back and waited on the rocks to use the c4, i found that me entering the town despawned my mines but not c4, its similar to the 200+ meter thing i found when doing the commander from 100+ meters away objective.

i was 243 meters from the building he is in, i could see inside the first floor window and no one was there, i then sniped everyone i could see with 12.7mm which where only about 6 guys all up, i then moved forward because no amount of scouting from quiet found anyone else, once i hit around 140ish meters suddenly everyone else spawned and i could lie down and snipe everyone again, dead bodies around and no one cared/wasnt alerted.

There's alot of different things that happen/despawn/spawn when you get a save checkpoint by entering/leaving a town or outpost.

The thing to note is that you can fulton the tanks if they are stationary even during an alert. I threw a soldier in the middle of the road stunned and waited for the convoy to stop, and then fultoned both tanks and then beat up and fultoned the major.