A bounding mine is an anti-personnel mine designed to be used in open areas. When it is tripped, a small propelling charge launches the body of the mine...

vehicles. APLs are classified into: blast mines and fragmentation mines; the latter may or may not be a bounding mine. APLs are often designed to injure and...

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...

Front, is the best-known version of a class of mines known as bounding mines. When triggered, these mines are launched into the air and then detonated at...

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anti-personnel bounding mine used at the start of the Second World War, it was developed largely in response to the German S-mine bounding mine. It saw very...

States incendiary landmine tested during the Vietnam War. It was a large bounding mine that could either be command detonated or trip wire activated. It contained...

Gelignite are put into the bounding mine and the mine trigger device is attached to the bounding mine end of the fuse. To disarm the mine, the fuse is cut at...

mine. They also developed the first scatterable mine, the No. 7 ("Dingbat"). The Americans used the M6 antitank mine and tripwire-operated bounding antipersonnel...

Yugoslavian manufactured bounding anti-personnel mine. It consists of a cylindrical body with a pronged fuze inserted into the top of the mine. It is broadly similar...

is an Italian bounding anti-personnel mine manufactured by Valsella. The mine was developed from the V-59 mine, and although the mine is no longer produced...

M19s is usually protected by various anti-personnel mines such as the M14 and M16 bounding mine. Weight: 12.56 kg Explosive content: 9.53 kg of Composition...

The A.P. (anti-personnel) Shrapnel Mine is a British bounding mine of World War II. The mines have cylindrical outer and inner cases as well as two pistol...

United States bounding anti-personnel mine used during World War II. A number of variants of the mine were produced and although the mine is no longer...

antipersonnel mines as well, for instance the M14 mine and M16 bounding mine. An additional benefit of double-impulse fuzes is that they give mines a degree...

The PP-Mi-Sr is a Czechoslovakian bounding mine, broadly similar to the German S-mine. It uses either a three pronged RO-8 fuze or a RO-1 pull fuze. It...

free dictionary. Bouncing Betty is the Allied nickname for an S-mine, a German bounding mine used in the 1930s and 1940s. Bouncing Betty may also refer to:...

armed MS-3 mines will always be encountered under some sort of heavy object, such as beneath an OZM bounding mine or sometimes an anti-tank mine to act as...

lit. 'anti-infantry fragmentation mine') is a Russian bounding anti-personnel mine. The POM-3 is a scatterable mine of roughly cylindrical shape, able...

Italian bounding anti-personnel mine. It is the latest of the Valmara family of bounding mines that includes the Valmara 59 and Valmara 69. The mine has a...

and KhF-2 bounding gas mines were Soviet landmines developed during World War II, though they were not deployed during the conflict. The mines would be...

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rather than sappers. The A.P. Mine No. 3 was a bounding shrapnel mine that was lethal at ranges of up to 30 yards (27 m). The mine was developed during the...

escape several security traps. However, she is eventually killed by a bounding mine hidden on the floor. Her body is dumped into a pit filled with dozens...

Grenade showing fuze mechanism. c. 1939 Cut-away diagram of a US M2A4 bounding mine showing the M6A1 pressure/pull fuze. c. 1950 USSR pull-fuze designed...

mines are designed to explode outwards resulting in casualties as much as 100 metres away. A subtype of fragmentation mines called "bounding" mines are...

movement. Such tripwires may be attached to one or more mines – especially fragmentation or bounding mines – in order to increase the area where triggering may...

Pursuit Deterrent Munition (PDM) is a small United States anti-personnel mine intended to be used by special forces to deter pursuing enemy forces. The...

manufactured bounding type anti-personnel mines. (fragmentation-barrier mine, in the Russian and other post-Soviet armies as informally called "frog mine" or "witch"...

"Killer Senior" when employed with larger howitzers. Some anti-personnel bounding mines such as Germany's World War II "Bouncing Betty" fire a grenade into...