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{{ImperialGuardPortal}}'''Hopper mines''' are a nasty but relatively uncommon anti-personnel weapon used by some [[Imperial Guard]] sapper teams in the [[Calixis]] Sector. <sup>{{Fn|1</sup>}}
Used to devastating effect on massed infantry formations or tight-packed hordes of [[xenos]], they appear to be little more than a discarded heavy [[bolter]] shell or other roughly cylindrical piece of detritus. Typically hidden in piles of debris along heavily traveled routes, they are equipped with sensitive biomonitors bio-monitors that can sense even the weakest bio-signs at a range of two meters. Once a bio-sign has been detected, a small shaped charge propels the hopper roughly two meters into the air where it detonates, spraying an area five meters across with lethal shrapnel.<sup>{{Fn|1</sup>}}
==Sources==
*<sup>{{Endn|1</sup>}}: [[Dark Heresy: The Chaos Commandment]] , pg. 15
[[Category:Weapons (Imperial Guard)]]