precision-guided munition designated as CBU-104. The Navy CBU-78/B is a 230-kilogram (500 lb) cluster munition containing 45 antitank and 15 antipersonnel mines. It...
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A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster...
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The M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition (PDM) is a small United States anti-personnel mine intended to be used by special forces to deter pursuing enemy forces...
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the Mines Advisory Group and by Tunn Channareth, a Cambodian mine victim and ICBL activist. The ICBL monitors the global mine and cluster munition situation...
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Area denial artillery munition (ADAM) is a family of United States land mines and 155 mm artillery projectiles. The mines carried by these projectiles...
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A loitering munition, also known as a suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone, is a kind of aerial weapon with a built-in warhead that is typically...
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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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sensor which allow it to be used as a demolition munition, off-route mine, or full width belly attack mine. The SLAM is compact and weighs only 1 kilogram...
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Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (also known as the Ottawa Treaty) and the Protocol on Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices define a mine as a "munition designed...
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(e.g. M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition) To protect equipment by employing the mines as booby traps To booby trap other mines as a form of anti-handling device...
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The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs)...
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Munition (MADM) was a tactical nuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. They were designed to be used as nuclear land mines...
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Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large...
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Top-Attack Munition in the early 2020s. The M93 used both seismic and acoustic sensors to track and identify potential targets near the mine. Once the mine detected...
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or a primary munition by an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), mortar bomb, artillery shell, or even an emplaced munition such as a mine. Top attack munitions...
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Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, and the B54 bomb was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM)...
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helicopters (VSM-1 mine system) or airplanes. The remote minelaying systems can only use cluster munition containing PFM-1 mines. The cassettes that...
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The M5 modular crowd control munition (MCCM) is a non-lethal direct fire device used to disperse, incapacitate and deny area access to large groups of...
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designed for delayed reaction or mobility denial (mines). The air-to-surface variety of this kind of munition is better known as a cluster bomb. They are banned...
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Smart weapon may refer to: Smart munition, or precision-guided munition Smart gun, a conceptual firearm that can detect its user Smart bullet, a bullet...
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M58 MICLIC (redirect from M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge)
purported to show a Russian munition dropping from a drone to destroy an M58 MICLIC system and the MaxxPro MRAP that was towing it. "Mine-clearing line charge...
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Anti-handling device (category Mine warfare)
of a landmine or other munition such as some fuze types found in general-purpose air-dropped bombs, cluster bombs and sea mines. It is designed to prevent...
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Fuze (section Munition types)
relative movement of the munition with respect to its target. The target may move past stationary munitions like land mines or naval mines; or the target may...
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Remote Anti-Armor Mine System (RAAMS) (a 155 mm howitzer shell) Area Denial Artillery Munition (ADAM) (a 155 mm howitzer shell) GATOR mine system (air dropped)...
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The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society movement, which campaigns against the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer...
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M7 Spider (redirect from XM-7 Spider mine)
pre-existing mines like the M18 Claymore. Day & Zimmermann and General Dynamics are prime subcontractors. The system is composed of Munition Control Units...
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January 2023. Area denial artillery munition (ADAM), the anti-personnel equivalent of the RAAMS Family of Scatterable Mines (FASCAM) Chase, Martin B. (March–April...
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Bangalore torpedo (redirect from Bangalore Mine)
possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Bangalore mine", "banger" or simply "Bangalore" as well as a pole charge. Per United States...
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Demining (redirect from Mine detector)
March 2019. Support for Mine Action. Landmine Monitor (Report). International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition. 2017. Archived...
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Ammunition (redirect from Munition)
from the French la munition, for the material used for war. Ammunition and munition are often used interchangeably, although munition now usually refers...
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