• APOBS - Anti-personnel Obstacle Breaching System
• It is an Explosive line charge system that allows safe breaching through complex antiperonnel obstacles (weapon/contents NOT included, just the front case assembly and back case assembly).  Particularly fields of land mines
• The APOBS is a joint DOD Program for the U.S. Army and the United States Marine Corps
• Hard sturdy plastic with 8 locking points
• Purge valve
• Frame is an ALICE Frame with LC2 straps
• These sturdy and very secure cases would be interesting to use during war time battle reinactments as well as to tote heavy gear for camping and air soft and paintball games tourniments, they are also collectible and would be good for a museum display
• Both the front and back assembly are in functional condition with all locking and pressure systems intact and operational
• NSN# 87012A4101

Information on the use of a complete (with weapon) APOBS (weapon not included):

The APOBS is used to conduct deliberate or hasty breaches through enemy antipersonnel minefields and multi-strand wire obstacles. It is light enough to be carried by two soldiers with backpacks and can be deployed within two minutes.

Once set in place, the APOBS rocket is fired from a 35-meter standoff position, sending the line charge with fragmentation grenades over a minefield or wire obstacle. The grenades neutralize or clear the mines and sever the wire, clearing a 45-meter-long footpath for troops.

The APOBS replaces the Bangalore torpedo, which is heavier when all sections are used together, takes significantly longer to set up, and cannot be deployed from a standoff position. It also reduces the number of soldiers required to carry and employ the system to two (as opposed to as many as 12 for a Bangalore torpedo using all sections).

The 125-pound system includes these features:

• Delay and command firing modes
• Deployable within 90 seconds
• Deployable from a 35-meter standoff
• Clears antipersonnel mines and complex wire obstacles
• Clears a footpath up to 1 meter by 45 meters