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Anti-personnel mine. Sand-colored VS-50 mine intended for use in desert environments (shown beside a wristwatch, for scale) An anti-personnel mine or anti-personnel landmine (APL) is a form of mine designed for use against humans, as opposed to an anti-tank mine, which target vehicles. [1] APLs are classified into: blast mines and fragmentation ...
The GEMSS mine system (Ground Emplaced Mine Scattering System) was a United States mine -laying system, part of the Family of Scatterable Mines used to rapidly emplace large tactical minefields in friendly territory. [1][2] It consisted of two different types of dispensers, the towed M128 "Frisbee Flinger" and the auxiliary M138 "Flipper ...
M16 mine. The M16 mine is a United States-made bounding anti-personnel mine. It was based on captured plans of the World War II era German S-mine and has similar performance. The mine consists of a cast iron body in a thin steel sleeve. A central fuze well on the top of the mine is normally fitted with a pronged M605 pressure/tension (tripwire ...
Mle 1951 AP blast mine. The Mle 1951 (Model 1951) or MI AP ID 51 is a small circular French brown plastic cased minimum metal mine anti-personnel blast mine. The mine uses a pressure fuze that works by driving a firing pin through a friction sensitive compound (a mixture of Red Phosphorus and glass). The mines safety is a small cap that sits ...
GYATA-64 mine. The GYATA-64 is a Hungarian antipersonnel mine, very similar to the Russian PMN mine in design and appearance. However, the Gyata-64 mine has a 300 gram explosive charge compared with the 249 gram charge in a PMN mine. As a result, the Gyata-64 is the most powerful AP blast mine commonly encountered, for which reason it is ...
Volcano mine system. The M136 Volcano Vehicle-Launched Scatterable Mine System is an automated mine delivery system developed by the United States Army in the 1980s. The system uses prepackaged mine canisters which contain multiple anti-personnel (AP) and/or anti-tank (AT) mines which are dispersed over a wide area when ejected from the ...
M2 mine; M14 mine; M16 mine; M61 and M63 stake mines; M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition; M432 mine; MAPED F1; MBV-78-A2 mine; MD-82 mine; Mine A.P. Improvised Type I; Mine A.P. Improvised Type II; Mini MS-803 mine; Mle 1951 AP blast mine; MM-1 Minimore; MMN-1 mine; MMN-2 mine; MOB (landmine) Model 49 mine; Model 123 mine; Modèle 1939 (mine ...
Project Masam is a multilateral humanitarian land mine clearance project in Yemen launched by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in June 2018.. It works in coordination and partnership with Yemen Executive Mine Action Center to clear Yemeni territory of Anti-tank (AT) and Anti-personnel mines (AP) along with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) with the aim of alleviating ...