I captured a few explosive mines from the army and I had a couple of quick questions

1) If a mine is armed and planted and my merc step on it will it explode

2) My militia step on it, will it explode

3) Mines in close proximity : if one explodes will this cause a chain reaction explosion

4) Shooting at a mine : will it explode

5) Besides planting them in a door way to a building i'm in it seems hard to effectively use mines

Thanks for the wisdom

Shooting at a mine : will it explode

Haven't tried shooting at them, but throwing a grenade on a mine lying on the ground (not planted) will have it exploding.

In one occasion this was my only way inside a locked building because the guy with the explosives was left back wounded in the other sector and no one with lockpicking skill and the right tools was around. The combo mine+HG realy did blow away a good deal of the wall.

I tried shooting a mine once because I planted it to "fix" a hole in a fence but didn't realize my militia will step on it and turn hostile (before the INI option was available).

By the way, I also tried to make the mine explode, however whatever explosive I used, all that happened was that the fence had a bigger hole, and to my surprise the mine did *not* explode. I used hand grenades, dynamite, and C4, no luck exploding the mine.

The guy who planted the mine couldn't "find" it / place a blue flag. Only if you have a blue flag you can choose to disarm it again. I spent more than a thousand rounds and was *not* able to make it explode.

disarms it by using the hand-cursor on the same tile.

the planted mine can't be discovered unless you save and reload after planting it

The disarm action is only possible on a blue flag I believe. If there is no blue flag you invoke the walk action instead.