The A.P. (anti-personnel) Shrapnel Mine is a British bounding mine of World War II. [1][2][3]

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 mines; the latter may or may not be a bounding mine. [2]

A World War II German S-mine, perhaps not the first bounding mine, but possibly the most well known. Its design was copied by several countries after the war including the United States who produced the M16 mine to replace their relatively ineffective M2 mine .

Three different igniters could be used, namely the ZZ 35, the ZZ 42 Pull Igniter and the Zu ZZ 35 Push-Pull Igniter. The mine is 45cm long, with a body diameter of 7.5cm. Second World War period German anti-personnel Stock-Mine 43. We have over 1.7 million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time.

Jul 7, 2011 · The M14 is a non-metallic, blast-type AP mine consisting of a main charge of tetryl (1 ounce). The mine is cylindrical in shape, 2-3/16 inches in diameter and 1-9/16 inches high weighing...

The German engineers developed “Glasmine 43”, an anti-personnel glass mine available since 1944. The first models are equipped with mechanical detonators and the following models receive chemical detonators, limiting a little more the possibilities of detection.

The S-mine was an anti-personnel mine developed by Germany in the 1930s and used extensively by German forces during World War II. It was designed to be used in open areas against unshielded infantry. Two versions were produced, designated by the year of their first production: the SMi-35 and SMi-44.

A delay fuze then triggered the mine when it had risen to about six feet in the air, and it had an effective lethal radius of about sixty feet. Label US Army M2 'bounding anti-personnel mine' of the type used during the Second World War.

The A.P. (anti-personnel) Shrapnel Mine is a British bounding mine of World War II.[1][2][3] The mines have cylindrical outer and inner cases as well as two pistol mechanisms.[1][4] The cartridge pistol mechanism is for triggering the propellant charge that was used to …

The M2 mine consists of an explosive shell contained in an upright thin-walled steel tube which is riveted to the base plate. A cavity in the base plate contains the propel-ling charge which conists of 20 grains of black powder in a small bag.