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    Claymore Antipersonnel Mine. International Coalition to Ban Landmines – Countries using Claymore type mines (PDF) FM 23-23 ANTIPERSONNEL MINE M18A1 AND...
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    ISBN 9780674049307. "Antipersonnel Mines" Popular Science, February 1945, p. 71, article for US public about the German Mustard Pot Mine and the Sch-Mine. Mines Advisory...
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  • containing 45 antitank and 15 antipersonnel mines. It uses the same dispenser as the Mk7 Rockeye. The BLU-91 /B AT mine is a low flat cylinder with a...
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    thrown on the ground, one spike always points up. As with modern antipersonnel mines, caltrops are designed to disable soldiers rather than kill them;...
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    Ukraine using any anti-personnel mines, but said in January 2023 that its team "saw physical evidence of PFM antipersonnel mine use in seven of the nine areas...
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    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 in US service...
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    system that allows safe breaching through complex antipersonnel obstacles, particularly fields of land mines. The APOBS is a joint DOD program for the U.S...
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    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 3 to...
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    Demining (redirect from Mine detector)
    Antitank mines are buried deeply while antipersonnel mines are usually within 6 inches of the surface. Mines may be placed by hand or scattered from...
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  • areas. The broader realm of mine action also includes advocacy, victim assistance, antipersonnel mine stockpile destruction, mine risk education and research...
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  • defenses Mine warfare Anti-tank mine, a land mine made for use against armored vehicles Antipersonnel mine, a land mine targeting people walking around...
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    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...
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    Such mines are resistant to clearing by line charges. M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge) vehicle M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle Antipersonnel Obstacle...
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    use of mines remains a controversial issue to this day. Antipersonnel mines like the S-mine have been the subject of repeated treaties and human-rights...
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    Yugoslavian blast antipersonnel mine. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pašteta', due to its superficial resemblance to a meat-pâté tin. The mine is constructed...
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    2022-04-15. Retrieved 2023-02-27. "Ukraine: Russia Uses Banned Antipersonnel Landmines". Human Rights Watch. 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-03-30. POM-2 mine...
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    tripwires fitted to any bounding mine, great care must be taken: it is quite possible that additional antipersonnel blast mines (e.g. the M14) may have been...
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    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...
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    U.S. military personnel believe that the use of .50 BMG in a direct antipersonnel role is prohibited by the laws of war. However, Maj. Hays Parks states...
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    противопехотная мина нажимная, lit. 'anti-personnel pressure mine') series of blast anti-personnel mines were designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union. They...
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    and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the treaty is sometimes referred to as the Ottawa Convention. The Mine Ban Treaty was adopted...
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    ORDATA VS-50AR with electronic anti-handling device at ORDATA "VS 50 Antipersonnel Mine". Australian War Memorial. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 8 June...
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    mechanism, the M14 mine is not resistant to blast-clearing methods, unlike more modern antipersonnel mine designs such as the TS-50 mine. Weight: 99 grams...
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    stockage, de la production et du transfert des mines antipersonnel et sur leur destruction" (PDF). AP Mine Ban Convention. Retrieved 6 January 2015. "France's...
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    they do not retain any antipersonnel mines, including 27 states that stockpiled antipersonnel mines in the past. Canada retains mines for training, and also...
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    SM-70 (category Anti-personnel mines)
    (Splittermine Modell 1970) is an East German directional fragmentation antipersonnel mine developed specifically to combat Republikflucht (defection) across...
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    21 new mine/UXO casualties recorded in 2003. Of the 25 incidents in 2004, fourteen were caused by antivehicle mines, seven by antipersonnel mines and four...
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    mine Model 49 mine MUSA mine MUSPA mine NO-MZ 2B mine NR-413 mine P-25 mine P-40 APPLE mine PM-43 mine PM-68 mine PMFC-1 mine PMFH-1 mine PMFH-2 mine...
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    both Russian and Ukrainian government forces have utilized antipersonnel and anti-vehicle mines. On 24 February 1999, Ukraine became a signatory of the Ottawa...
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    "Nord-Kivu: l'explosion d'une mine antipersonnel tue un enfant à Kitshanga" [North Kivu: the explosion of an antipersonnel mine kills a child in Kitshanga]...
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