List of land mines
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Yugoslav MURD anti-personnel mine (front, accessories fitted).
This is hopefully a complete list of land mines.
Mines by type [edit]
Anti-vehicle mines [edit]
Blast mines [edit]
A Chinese metal cased Type 59 anti-tank blast mine. Its design is typical of many post World War II anti-tank blast mines, circular with a central fuze well (fitted with a plug in this case).
An Italian, plastic cased blast resistant VS-2.2 mine. Capable of being deployed from the air, as well as being resistant to explosive clearance techniques.
Shaped charge/Misznay Schardin effect [edit]
Full width mines [edit]
- Barmine
- BAT/7 mine
- FFV 028 (Stridsvagnsmina 6) mine
- MSM MK2 mine
- Riegel mine 43
- Riegel mine 44
- V-3 (N5) mine
- VS-HCT mine
- VS-HCT2 mine
- VS-HCT4 mine
Side attack mines [edit]
- Addermine
- Anti-Transport Mine
- ARGES/MACPED mine
- ATIS mine
- ATM 6 mine
- ATM 7 mine
- AVC 100 mine
- AVC 195 mine
- FFV 018 mine
- L14A1 mine
- Kasia 100 mine
- Kasia 2 x 100 mine
- Kasia 170 mine
- M24 mine
- MON-100
- MON-200
- MPB mine
- PARM 1 mine
- PARM 2 mine
- PD Mi-PK mine
- PMN-150 mine
- PMN-250 mine
- TEMP 30 mine
- TM-83 mine
Wide area mines [edit]
Anti-personnel mines [edit]
Fragmentation and stake mines [edit]
A Yugoslavian PMR-2A stake mine, in a typical deployed configuration. Note the externally serrated fragmentation jacket.
Shaped charge mines [edit]
Directional mines [edit]
The M18A1 Claymore mine.
Blast mines [edit]
A German World War II era Schu-mine 42 anti-personnel mine. Its extremely simple design and use of wooden components allowed it to be produced in great numbers.
Bounding mines [edit]
Flame mines [edit]
Chemical mines [edit]
- Livens Projector see note[1]
- KhF-1 bounding gas mine
- KhF-2 bounding gas mine
- M1 chemical mine
- M23 chemical mine
- Spruh-Buchse 37
- Yperite mine
Anti-helicopter mines [edit]
- 4AHM-100 mine
- AHM-200 mine
- AHM-200-1 mine
- AHM-200-2 mine
- Anti Transport Mine (Bulgaria)
- Helkir mine
- PMN-150 mine
- PMN-250 mine
- TEMP 20
Nuclear land mines [edit]
Three scientists pose with a Medium Atomic Demolition Munition, the warhead is the smaller cylinder to the left, its casing is to the right.
Mines by country of origin [edit]
Austria [edit]
Bulgaria [edit]
- 4AHM-100 mine
- AHM-200 mine
- AHM-200-1 mine
- AHM-200-2 mine
- Anti Transport Mine (Bulgaria)
- PMN-150 mine
- PMN-250 mine
Canada [edit]
People's Republic of China [edit]
Cuba [edit]
Former Czechoslovakia [edit]
- PP Mi-SK mine (A Czechoslovakia (POMZ-2 mine coppy, used with an RO-1 fuze.)
Denmark [edit]
France [edit]
Germany [edit]
Italy [edit]
Japan [edit]
Myanmar [edit]
South Africa [edit]
Serbia [edit]
former Soviet Union/Russia [edit]
Sri Lanka [edit]
United Kingdom [edit]
United States [edit]
Former Yugoslavia [edit]
Vietnam [edit]
A Yugoslav MURD anti-personnel mine (line drawing).
A cutaway of an MD-82 mine.
An M14 mine, showing a cutaway view. The absence of a safety clip and the location of the arrow on the pressure plate clearly shows that this mine has been armed.
See also [edit]
- Fougasse (weapon).
- Mine clearance agencies.
- Demining.
- Hydrema mine clearing vehicle.
- Virtual minefield.
- The Ottawa Treaty.
- Special Atomic Demolition Munition
- Uzbek-Tajikistan border minefields
References [edit]
- ^ a b The Livens Projector is more of a mortar than a land mine but it is described as "arguably the first chemical mine" in The Origins of Military Mines: Part I, Major William C. Schneck and is consequently included here.
- Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance 2005-2006
- Brassey's Essential Guide to Anti-Personnel Landmines, Eddie Banks
- Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment, TM 5-223