Description
This is a molded plastic semi-cylindrical limpet mine which uses a mechanical time delay (metal fatigue) fuze. Delay can be set from 5 minutes to 832 hours by use of 6 delay tabs. The mine has two horseshoe magnets on both ends. The mine has 2 fuze wells and an arming device 180° from the fuze wells. A cylindrical cavity charge is mounted on a bridge supported by the 2 horseshoe magnets. The magnets provide a standoff of 1.6 cm.
The mine is used for disabling or sinking ships.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
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Source(s)
TM 5-280, Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment (chg 1, 1971)
