File:Landmine anti-handling devices.png
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| Description | A diagram showing the typical configuration of anti-handling devices used with anti-tank mines, from the US Field Manual FM 20-32 (August 1966). The upper diagram shows a pull-fuze screwed into a secondary fuze well in the side of the mine. Additionally, an M5 anti-lift device has been screwed into another fuze well, hidden under the mine. An inexperienced deminer might detect and render safe the pull-fuze, but then be killed when he lifted the mine, triggering the M5 pressure-release firing device underneath. The lower diagram shows two anti-tank landmines connected by a cord attached to the upper mine's carrying handle. The cord is attached to a pull fuze installed in a secondary fuze well in the bottom mine. There is a strong functional overlap of boobytraps and anti-handling devices: a munition with an anti-handling device fitted has, for all intents and purposes, been booby-trapped. |
| Date | before 1966 |
| Source | Field Manual 20-32 - Mine/Countermine Operations Chapter 1. Conventional Mines. Page 1-11. |
| Author | US Gov |
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