Description
This sheet metal unit with its 10-pound metal plate is designed to “kill” and not merely to stop or disable a tank. The device will make a hole about 7.9" in diameter through 1.8" of armor plate when detonated about 20 inches away.
The mine is usually emplaced in pairs, connected to a common metallic offset fuzing device or a Model 1948 metallic antitank mine so that one of them will likely explode underneath the tank. When used singly, the plate-charge mine is fitted with a tilt-rod fuze. (Another version of this mine, Model 1951, has no case, the explosive being reinforced by glass wool. The same charge plate is used, however.)
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Pressure-Pressure Release, Model 1952
Source(s)
TM 5-280, Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment (chg 1, 1971)
