bounding mine

Bounding mines based on its design were introduced by other countries.

A bounding mine is an anti-personnel mine designed to be used in open areas.

It was a large bounding mine that could either be command detonated or trip wire activated.

By design, bounding mines contain a large amount of steel, which makes them comparatively easy to detect with metal detectors.

As with all bounding mines the PROM-1 is lethal at relatively long distances.

Major Delalande aided the Americans by providing plans for the French M-1939 bounding mine.

However, like the majority of bounding mines, most of the Valmara 69 is hidden underground and may be difficult to see, particularly in heavy undergrowth.

Later, the OZM-72 bounding mine was filled with steel rods, returning to the original concept of the S-mine.

Other countries that have employed bounding mines in war include the United States of America, Soviet Union, and Vietnam.

Bounding mines are more expensive than typical AP blast mines, and they do not lend themselves to scatterable designs.

The steel shrapnel makes bounding mines easy to detect, so they may be surrounded by Minimum metal mines to make mine clearance harder.

M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition: tripwire triggered bounding mine that automatically deploys its own tripwires.

The PP-Mi-Sr is a Czechoslovakian bounding mine, broadly similar to the German S-mine.

Bounding mines have a small lifting charge that, when activated, launches the main body of the mine out of the ground before it detonates at around chest height.

It is the latest of the Valmara family of bounding mines that includes the Valmara 59 and Valmara 69.

The M2 mine was replaced almost immediately afterwards with the M16 bounding mine, an almost exact copy of the German S-mine.

A tripwire may be a wire attached to one or more mines - normally bounding mines and the fragmentation type - in order to increase their activation area.

Anti-personnel mines may be classified into blast mines or fragmentation mines, the latter may or may not be bounding mines.

Additionally, connecting bounding mine (e.g. the PROM-1) to the obstacle with tripwires has the effect of booby trap the obstacle itself, hindering attempts to clear it.

Even JNA facilities located in urban centres were secured in this way, using mines such as the PROM-1 bounding mine and MRUD directional anti-personnel mine.

A French officer, Major Pierre Delalande (sometimes Paul Delalande) who had escaped the fall of France came to the US with the plans of the Modele 1939 bounding mine.

When tracking the path of tripwires fitted to any bounding mine, great care must be taken: it is quite possible that additional antipersonnel blast mines (e.g. the M14) may have been buried beneath its path.

As with any bounding mine, wearing standard kevlar body armour offers no guarantee of safety: the large number of fragments produced by a PROM-1 will wound the unprotected limbs, face and eyes of its victim(s).

As a result, armed PMN-3 mines will always be encountered under some sort of heavy object, such as beneath an OZM bounding mine or sometimes an anti-tank mine to act as an anti-handling device.

The Mle 1939 (Model 1939) was a French bouncing anti-personnel mine used at the start of the Second World War, it was developed largely in response to the German S-mine bounding mine.