2023 Area Guide: Land Mines and Booby Traps - FM 5-31

Each anti-tank and anti-personnel land mines have been utilized by the Axis and Allied powers throughout WWII. Designed to immobilize monitor or wheeled autos, anti-tank mines are usually employed in clusters often called mine fields. The everyday cost of an anti-tank mine is six to 12 kilos. Often they don’t seem to be harmful to personnel, because the heavy stress or magnetic motion produced by a automobile is important to detonate them. Antipersonnel mines are used primarily to supply casualties to foot troopers. They might be positioned for particular tactical functions, such because the safety of mine fields or different obstacles, on strategic floor, or in such a manner as to providelocal safety; or they could be positioned as nuisances that harass and delay the enemy’s advance. With an explosive cost of 1 / 4 pound to 4 kilos, this sort of mine isn’t efficient towards armored autos. Created in 1943, this subject handbook covers the employment, sorts, andcharacteristics of land mines and booby traps of varied nations. It includesmethods to find, disarm, defuse, and take away these obstacles. Initially labeled restricted, this handbook was declassified way back and is right here reprinted in e-book kind. Care has been taken to protect the integrity of the textual content.