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A booby trap with punji sticks. A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise a human or another animal. It is triggered by the presence or actions of the victim and sometimes has some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it.
The Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, or Protocol II, is a United Nations treaty that restricts the use of land mines, remotely delivered mines, and booby traps. It is Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. [1] [2]
Booby Trap or Victim Operated IEDs (VOIEDs), became commonplace. The IRA engaged in an ongoing battle to gain the upper hand in electronic warfare with remote controlled devices. The rapid changes in development led 321 EOD to employ specialists from DERA (now Dstl, an agency of the MOD), the Royal Signals, and Military Intelligence. This ...
They were often incorporated into various types of traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a soldier might fall (it would then be a trou de loup). Sometimes a pit would be dug with punji sticks in the sides pointing downward at an angle. A soldier stepping into the pit would find it impossible to remove their leg without doing severe ...
Molniya (Russian: молния, lit. 'lightning') was an explosive device used to booby trap certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache items, such as shortwave radio receivers, cryptographic materials, and allegedly even suitcase nuclear devices.
Disposable fly traps are small "use and throw away" fly traps. The traps are disposable plastic bags containing some attractant, generally made of flavoring agents that are non-toxic. Water and direct sunlight are used to activate the attractant, which emits a smell to lure the flies. Insects enter the trap and drown in the water inside.
A diagrammatic example of a common trou de loup. In medieval fortification, a trou de loup (French: [tʁu d(ə) lu], lit. ' wolf hole '; plural trous de loup, also commonly referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle.
Based on page views, Booby trap is nearly 9 times as popular as anti-handling device. Plus: Booby trap is a more common term for the layman; Booby trap article is more developed than anti-handling deveice, which if anything is a bit over-technical and militaristic. a_man_alone 11:20, 21 October 2010 (UTC)