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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 ...
M75 AT mine. 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 ...
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 ...
PMN-4. The PMN-4 is a delay-armed, pressure-fired blast-mine. The pressure-plate is black and the body is reddish-brown or khaki. The black rubber pressure-plate has a plastic pressure "spider" concealed underneath, shaped like flower-petals. The diameter of the mine is 95mm and the height is 46mm.
M87 Mine Canister: The M87 mine canister is prepackaged with five AT mines and one AP mine, each mine measuring 12 cm (4.72 in) in diameter and 6 cm (2.36 in) in height. The mixture of mines is fixed and cannot be altered in the field. Each AP mine contains approximately 412 grams (14.5 ounces) of explosives, mostly Comp B-4, and each AT mine ...
The mine rises to a height of 0.3 to 1.7 meters [1] before one or both of the pyrotechnic delays detonates the main charge of the mine, which sprays high-speed metal fragments 360° around the point of detonation. These metal fragments have an expected casualty radius of 27 meters for the M16 and M16A1 mines, and out to 30 meters for the M16A2 ...
AP NM AE T1 mine. The Min AP NM AE T1 (Mina Anti-Pessoal Não-Magnética Auto Explosiva modelo T1) is a small Brazilian minimum metal anti-personnel mine. The mine has a plastic case in the form of a truncated cone. with a small protruding fuse and pressure plate. The small size of the pressure plate gives the mine some blast resistance.
Ottawa Treaty. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban Treaty, aims at eliminating anti-personnel landmines (APLs) around the world.