Anti-tank mine

Advancing technology as well as this demonstration of potential utility of Mass Scatter able Mines led the Army to revise mine warfare doctrine and establish new requirements for a family of Scatterable Mines that could be rapidly and remotely emplaced by a variety uf delivery systems. This requirement called for both Anti-Tank and Anti-Personnel Mine Systems. To this end, two first generation systems are well ad-vandedin devebpment. These are the XM56, a helicopter delivered Anti-Tank Mine System and die XM692, an artillery delivered Anti-Personnel Mine System. Other second generation systems which add increased versatility and capability are scheduled to follow ... 

Figure 4.1 Sampling for surface contamination on a Soviet-type TM-62P2 anti-tank mine.

Fig 1-107 on p D932 is for Heavy Antitank Mine, M6A2 w/Mine Fuze, M603 Fig 1-108 on p D932 is for Light, HE, Anti-tank Mine M7A2 w/Mine Fuze, M603... 

TNX has been used in composite expls as a partial substitute for TNT. For example, Ya.I. Leitman proposed during WWII a mixt of TNT 95 TNX 5%, under the name of L plav (L-Fuse or L-Mixture), for castloading anti-tank mines and in demolition blocks. The L-Splav has a d of loading 1.54-1.56g/cc and mp 74°. It is more sensitive to initiation than TNT, requiring a smaller booster chge (such as Tetryl) and can be initiated by a very strong detonator alone. TNX has also been used in industrial expls... 

A large issue of anti-tank mine fuses being entrained from the south face of the underground loading platform at Tunnel Quarry in 1943. The portable gravity runways are linked to the belt conveyor on the platform. 

In addition, liquid explosives can be used to charge special ammunition and special anti-tank mines, clear mines, remove obstacles, and operate in-fracture explosive in wells. Even electric power generation by liquid explosives has been considered. 

Fort Belvoir, VA Navy SEALS on a training bivouac struck a German anti-tank mine while digging a foxhole. The minefield was left from W.W.II testing of German mines against U.S. vehicles. This minefield is still not on any lists and Ft. Belvoir is now BRAC site being developed. 

The determination of explosives in soils has been mostly commonly associated with the detection of unexploded ordnance such as land mines (both anti-personnel and anti-tank). Chambers et al. [70] designed sampling subsystems for soil/vapor sampling. A probe was used to extract and concentrate vapors of explosives in the pore volume of soil in the vicinity of land mines with sub-part-per-biUion detection limits for TNT and related explosive munitions compounds [70]. As an... 

W.F. Shirk, "Tests of Fuze, Mine, Anti-Tank, Ml to Determine the Safe Insulation between Fuzes Against Progressive Detonation ,... 

Anti-tank (A/T) mines varied in appearance, being tubular, rectangular, or circular in shape. 

Teledet has also been recommended for use with flame suppressors as a fire lane clearance charge, and as an anti-tank/anti-personnel mine clearing agent (Ref 3)... 

Tetryl forms yellow crystals with a melting point of 132 Celsius—it explodes when heated to 180 Celsius. It is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol, benzene, and acetic acid. Solutions of tetryl in solvents should be stored in a dark place, protected from light—as they will slowly deteriorate on standing—normally tetryl is stored dry or moistened with kerosene or water. Solutions of tetryl or even the dry solid upon the skin and teeth causes yellow staining. Tetryl is a very powerful explosive used primarily in detonators as a booster for artillery, mortar, and projectile fuses. Tetryl is a standard military initiating explosive (booster). Tetryl boosters are common in shape charges, mines, mortars, artillery shells, rockets, anti-tank munitions, and missiles. 

It was believed that the mine was designed for anti-invasion purposes to be placed in shallow water against landing craft, vehicles and tanks Type JG Antiboat Land Mine, which existed in 5 modifications, each being actuated by a single chemical horn screwed into the top. The mines were either bell-shaped or of a truncated cone. Each contd 22 lbs of Type 98 Explosive. The mines were fired when chemical horns were broken (pp 222-23, Fig 168)... 

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