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The Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large medieval Scottish sword . [ citation needed ] Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore may be command-detonated (fired by remote-control), and is directional, shooting a wide ...
List of land mines. Yugoslav MRUD anti-personnel mine (front, accessories fitted). A Yugoslav MRUD anti-personnel mine (line drawing). A cutaway of an MD-82 mine. An M14 mine, showing a cutaway view. The absence of a safety clip and the location of the arrow on the pressure plate clearly shows that this mine has been armed.
The GATOR mine system is a United States military system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines developed in the 1980s to be compatible with existing cluster dispensers. It is used with two dispenser systems—the Navy 230 kg (500 lb) CBU-78/B and the Air Force 450 kg (1,000 lb) CBU-89/B .
Volcano mine system. The M136 Volcano Vehicle-Launched Scatterable Mine System is an automated mine delivery system developed by the United States Army in the 1980s. The system uses prepackaged mine canisters which contain multiple anti-personnel (AP) and/or anti-tank (AT) mines which are dispersed over a wide area when ejected from the ...
Arma 3. Arma 3[a] is an open world tactical shooter simulation video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive exclusively through the Steam distribution platform. It is the third main entry in the Arma series, and the eighth installment in the series overall. Arma 3 was released for Microsoft Windows on September 12, 2013, and for ...
An identical number of BLU–44/B mines loaded into an identical number of CDU–3/B adapters fitted to the SUU–13/A dispenser formed the complete CBU–37/A. [3] The SUU–13/A was a cluster dispenser that remained attached to the aircraft, dispensing cluster adapters of mines as the aircraft flew forward, unlike cluster bombs, which are ...
M75 AT mine. The GEMSS mine system (Ground Emplaced Mine Scattering System) was a United States mine -laying system, part of the Family of Scatterable Mines used to rapidly emplace large tactical minefields in friendly territory. [1][2] It consisted of two different types of dispensers, the towed M128 "Frisbee Flinger" and the auxiliary M138 ...
Anti-personnel mine. Sand-colored VS-50 mine intended for use in desert environments (shown beside a wristwatch, for scale) An anti-personnel mine or anti-personnel landmine (APL) is a form of mine designed for use against humans, as opposed to an anti-tank mine, which target vehicles. [1] APLs are classified into: blast mines and fragmentation ...