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Yugoslav MRUD anti-personnel mine (front, accessories fitted). A Yugoslav MRUD anti-personnel mine (line drawing). A cutaway of an MD-82 mine. An M14 mine, showing a cutaway view. The absence of a safety clip and the location of the arrow on the pressure plate clearly shows that this mine has been armed. This is a list of commonly used land mines.
Land mines are divided into two types: anti-tank mines, which are designed to disable tanks or other vehicles; and anti-personnel mines, which are designed to injure or kill people. [ 2 ] Land mines are typically pressure activated, exploding automatically when stepped on by a person or driven over by a vehicle, though alternative detonation ...
A mine is an explosive placed underground or underwater that explodes when disturbed, or when remotely triggered. The term originated from the use of mining to go under the enemy's city walls. Mines, unlike bombs, are placed in situ and then require some other stimulus from a target before they will detonate. Land mine, mines on land
Scientists look at a MADM nuclear land mine. Cutaway casing with warhead inside, code-decoder / firing unit is at left. The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a family of man-portable nuclear weapons fielded by the US military in the 1960s, but never used in actual combat. The US Army planned to use the weapons in Europe in the event ...
Some mines, referred to as minimum metal mines, are constructed with as little metal as possible – as little as 1 gram (0.035 oz) – to make them difficult to detect. [9] Common explosives used in land mines include TNT (C 7 H 5 N 3 O 6), RDX (C 3 H 6 N 6 O 6), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, O 12 N 8 C 4 H 8), HMX (O 8 N 8 C 4 H 8) and ...
Land mines by target (2 C) M. Metal detecting (1 C, 6 P) Minefields (17 P) N. Nuclear mines (1 C, 3 P) V. Landmine victims (81 P)
Five M15 landmines (recovered from a Cuban mine-field) await destruction. The top two mines show additional fuze wells Cross sectional view of an M15 mine, and an M603 fuze, as well as the appearance of a mine with an M624 tilt-rod fuze installed. The M15 mine is a large circular United States anti-tank blast mine, first deployed during the ...
The Lochnagar mine south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme.