Description
This is a wooden box-type unit with four plastic fuzes, but with enough metal to make it detectable. It has three parts - a box for the explosive, a frame to support the pressure board, and the pressure board. The top is covered with cloth painted or dyed in a camouflage pattern. This mine is no longer produced, but will remain in service until present stocks are exhausted.
It is laid in pattern in minefields to damage tracks of armored vehicles by concussion. By the substitution of the Model PMC 43 button type fuze for the Model 42/2 pressure fuze and by weakening the pressure board supports so that they fail under a man’s weight it may be converted to an antipersonnel mine.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Source(s)
TM 5-280, Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment (chg 1, 1971)
