This is a list of commonly used
land mine
A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automati ...
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Mines by type
Anti-personnel mines
Fragmentation and stake mines
Shaped charge mines
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C3A1 mine
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C3A2 mine
Directional mines
Blast mines
Bounding mines
Flame mines
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Abwehrflammenwerfer 42
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Flame fougasse
A flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to fougasse and may be spelled foo gas) is a type of mine or improvised explosive device which uses an explosive charge to project burning liquid onto a target. The flame fougasse was developed by the P ...
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X-200 mine
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XM-54 mine
Chemical mines
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Livens Projector
The Livens Projector was a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with flammable or toxic chemicals.
In the First World War, the Livens Projector became the standard means of delivering gas attacks by the British Army a ...
see note[The Livens Projector is more of a mortar than a land mine but it is described as ''"arguably the first chemical mine"'' i]
''The Origins of Military Mines: Part I'', Major William C. Schneck
and is consequently included here.
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KhF-1 bounding gas mine
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KhF-2 bounding gas mine
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M1 chemical mine
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M23 chemical mine
The M23 is a United States steel cased chemical landmine. The mine was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and approximately 100,000 units were produced. The U.S. completed its destruction of its stock at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2 ...
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Spruh-Buchse 37
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Yperite mine
Anti-vehicle mines
Blast mines
Shaped charge/ Misznay Schardin effect
Full width mines
Side attack mines
Wide area mines
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M93 HORNET mine
Anti-helicopter mines
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4AHM-100 mine
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AHM-200 mine
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AHM-200-1 mine
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AHM-200-2 mine
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Anti-Transport Mine
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Helkir mine
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PMN-150 mine
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PMN-250 mine
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TEMP 20
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Nuclear land mines
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Blue Peacock
Blue Peacock, renamed from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny, was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s.
The project's goal was to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear land mines in Germany. These mines which were intended ...
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Medium Atomic Demolition Munition
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Special Atomic Demolition Munition
Mines by country of origin
Argentina
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FMK-1 mine
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FMK-3 mine
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FMK-5 mine
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MAPG mine
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MAPPG mine
Austria
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Helkir mine
Bulgaria
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4AHM-100 mine
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AHM-200 mine
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AHM-200-1 mine
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AHM-200-2 mine
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Anti Transport Mine (Bulgaria)
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PMN-150 mine
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PMN-250 mine
Canada
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C3A1 mine
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DM-21 mine
People's Republic of China
Cuba
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AT-8 (Cuban mine)
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PMFH-1 mine
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PMFH-2 mine
Former Czechoslovakia
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PP Mi-SK mine (A Czechoslovakian copy of the POMZ-2 mine, used with an
RO-1 fuze.)
Sweden
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M/47 mine
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FFV 016 mine
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FFV 028 mine
France
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MAPED F1 (France)
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Model 1948 mine
Germany
Italy
Japan
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Type 93 mine
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Type 96 mine
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Type 67 mine
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Type 99 mine
Myanmar
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MM-1 mine
South Africa
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Mini MS-803 (South Africa)
Serbia
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MRUD (Serbia)
Former Soviet Union/Russia
Sri Lanka
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Johnny Landmine 95 (LTTE)
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Rangan 99
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P4Mk1
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Type 72
United Kingdom
United States
Former Yugoslavia
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MRUD (Serbia)
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PROM-1
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PMA-2 "Pašteta"
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PMA-3 mine
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PMR-1 mine
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PMR-2A mine
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TMM-1
Vietnam
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MD-82 mine
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MBV-78A1 mine
See also
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Fougasse
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Mine clearance agencies
A mine clearance organization, or demining organization, is an organization involved in the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) for military, humanitarian, or commercial reasons. Demining includes mine clearance (actual removal and d ...
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Demining
Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing land mines from an area. In military operations, the object is to rapidly clear a path through a minefield, and this is often done with devices such as mine plows and blast waves. By cont ...
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Hydrema
Hydrema is a dump truck manufacturer based in Støvring, Denmark, founded in 1959. They have specialized in the manufacture of articulated light dump trucks and earth moving equipment. A variety of models are produced, with a payload of up to 20 t ...
mine clearing vehicle
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Virtual minefield
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Ottawa Treaty
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine ...
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Special Atomic Demolition Munition
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Uzbek-Tajikistan border minefields
Notes
References
* ''Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance 2005-2006''
* ''Brassey's Essential Guide to Anti-Personnel Landmines'', Eddie Banks
* ''Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment'', TM 5-223
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