Description
This antipersonnel mine is a sheet-metal (sometimes wooden) box about 3 1/4 inches square and about 7 3/4 inches high. The mine is filled with explosive and steel fragments. On one side is a carrying handle, and in the top are two metal tubes projecting down into the explosive. One tube holds the MUV pull fuze, the percussion cap, and the detonator; the other holds a wooden or metal pressure rod, grooved at the bottom. This rod acts as a pressure piece. A cord or wire is fastened to the eye in the striker-retaining pin of the fuze and is looped around the groove in the bottom of the rod.
This mine is used as an antipersonnel mine and is placed in the ground with only the pressure rod extending above the ground.
Functioning
Treading on the rod depresses it and causes the cord or wire to pull the pin out of the fuze, exploding the mine.
Hazardous Components
Main charge - 2.5 lbs (1.14 kg)
Physical Data
Length - 3.25 in (83 mm)
Width - 3.25 in (83 mm)
Height - 7.75 in (197 mm)
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