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land mine A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon often concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near it. Land mines are divided into two types: anti-tank mines, wh ...
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Mines by type


Anti-personnel mines


Fragmentation and stake mines


Shaped charge mines

* C3A1 mine * C3A2 mine


Directional mines


Blast mines


Bounding mines


Flame mines

* Abwehrflammenwerfer 42 *
Flame fougasse A flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to Fougasse (weapon), fougasse and may be spelled foo gas) is a type of land mine, mine or improvised explosive device which uses an explosive charge to project burning liquid onto a target. The flame foug ...
* X-200 mine * XM-54 mine


Chemical mines

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Livens Projector The Livens Projector was a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with flame warfare, flammable or Chemical warfare, toxic chemicals. In the First World War, the Livens Projector became the standard means of delivering ...
see noteThe Livens Projector is more of a mortar than a land mine but it is described as ''"arguably the first chemical mine"'' i
''The Origins of Military Mines: Part I'', Major William C. Schneck
and is consequently included here.
* KhF-1 bounding gas mine * KhF-2 bounding gas mine * M1 chemical mine * M23 chemical mine * Spruh-Buchse 37 * Yperite mine


Anti-vehicle mines


Blast mines


Shaped charge/ Misnay Schardin effect


Full width mines


Side attack mines


Wide area mines

* M93 HORNET mine * PTKM - 1R


Anti-helicopter mines

* 4AHM-100 mine * AHM-200 mine * AHM-200-1 mine * AHM-200-2 mine * Anti-Transport Mine * Helkir mine * PMN-150 mine * PMN-250 mine * TEMP 20 ----


Nuclear land mines

* Blue Peacock * Medium Atomic Demolition Munition *
Special Atomic Demolition Munition The Special Atomic Demolition 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) system fielded by the US military from the 1960s to 1980s ...


Mines by country of origin


Argentina

* FMK-1 mine * FMK-3 mine * FMK-5 mine * MAPG mine * MAPPG mine


Austria

* Helkir mine


Bulgaria

* 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

* C3A1 mine * DM-21 mine


People's Republic of China


Cuba

* AT-8 (Cuban mine) * PMFH-1 mine * PMFH-2 mine


Former Czechoslovakia

* PP Mi-SK mine (A Czechoslovakian copy of the POMZ-2 mine, used with an RO-1 fuze.)


Sweden

* M/47 mine * FFV 016 mine * FFV 028 mine


France

* MAPED F1 (France) * Model 1948 mine


Germany


Italy


Japan

* Type 93 mine * Type 96 mine * Type 67 mine * Type 99 mine


Myanmar

* MM-1 mine


South Africa

* Mini MS-803 (South Africa)


Serbia

* MRUD (Serbia)


Former Soviet Union/Russia


Sri Lanka

* Johnny Landmine 95 (LTTE) * Rangan 99 * P4Mk1 * Type 72


United Kingdom


United States


Former Yugoslavia

* MRUD (Serbia) *
PROM-1 The PROM-1 is a Yugoslavian manufactured bounding mine, 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 in operation to the German S-mine. The mine is ...
* PMA-2 "Pašteta" * PMA-3 mine * PMR-1 mine * PMR-2A mine * TMM-1


Vietnam

* MD-82 mine * MBV-78A1 mine


See also

{{columns-list, colwidth=20em, * Fougasse * Mine clearance agencies *
Demining Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing land mines from an area. In military operations, the object is to rapidly clear a path through a minefield, and this is often done with devices such as mine plows and blast waves. By cont ...
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Hydrema Hydrema is a manufacturer of earth moving machines based in Støvring, Denmark, founded in 1959. They are specialized in the manufacturing of high-quality machines and earth moving equipment. A variety of models are produced, including dump tru ...
mine clearing vehicle * Virtual minefield * The
Ottawa Treaty The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine ...
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Special Atomic Demolition Munition The Special Atomic Demolition 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) system fielded by the US military from the 1960s to 1980s ...
* Uzbek-Tajikistan border minefields


Notes


References

* ''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 *