Description
This antipersonnel mine is an antipersonnel mine consisting of a flat, round sheet-metal case, about 12 inches in diameter and 2 1/2 inches high, containing 2.5 pounds of explosive. The mine is held between the hinged legs (wooden bars) of a wooden vise. The top leg (the longer wooden bar) lies on a leaf spring fixed to the top of the mine. The MUV pull fuze is inserted through a slot in a metal slide on the side of the top half of the mine. The bottom of this slide is pointed and bent out and engages in the eye of the fuze striker-retaining pin.
The vise mine is employed as an antipersonnel mine.
Functioning
Pressure on the top leg of the vise depresses the leaf spring and the metal slide. This forces the striker-retaining pin out of the MUV pull fuze, and the mine explodes.
Hazardous Components
Main charge - 2.5 lbs. (1.14 kg)
Physical Data
Diameter - 12 in. (305 mm)
Height - 2.5 in. (64 mm)
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