Yugoslav MURD anti-personnel mine (front, accessories fitted).

This is hopefully a complete list of land mines.

Mines by type [edit]

Anti-vehicle mines [edit]

Blast mines [edit]

A Chinese metal cased Type 59 anti-tank blast mine. Its design is typical of many post World War II anti-tank blast mines, circular with a central fuze well (fitted with a plug in this case).

An Italian, plastic cased blast resistant VS-2.2 mine. Capable of being deployed from the air, as well as being resistant to explosive clearance techniques.

Shaped charge/Misznay Schardin effect [edit]

Full width mines [edit]

A German Riegelmine 43 full width mine.

• Barmine
• BAT/7 mine
• FFV 028 (Stridsvagnsmina 6) mine
• MSM MK2 mine
• Riegel mine 43
• Riegel mine 44
• V-3 (N5) mine
• VS-HCT mine
• VS-HCT2 mine
• VS-HCT4 mine

Side attack mines [edit]

• Addermine
• Anti-Transport Mine
• ARGES/MACPED mine
• ATIS mine
• ATM 6 mine
• ATM 7 mine
• AVC 100 mine
• AVC 195 mine
• FFV 018 mine
• L14A1 mine
• Kasia 100 mine
• Kasia 2 x 100 mine
• Kasia 170 mine
• M24 mine
• MON-100
• MON-200
• MPB mine
• PARM 1 mine
• PARM 2 mine
• PD Mi-PK mine
• PMN-150 mine
• PMN-250 mine
• TEMP 30 mine
• TM-83 mine

Wide area mines [edit]

• M93 HORNET mine

Anti-personnel mines [edit]

Fragmentation and stake mines [edit]

A Yugoslavian PMR-2A stake mine, in a typical deployed configuration. Note the externally serrated fragmentation jacket.

Shaped charge mines [edit]

• C3A1 mine
• C3A2 mine

Directional mines [edit]

The M18A1 Claymore mine.

Blast mines [edit]

A German World War II era Schu-mine 42 anti-personnel mine. Its extremely simple design and use of wooden components allowed it to be produced in great numbers.

Bounding mines [edit]

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.

Flame mines [edit]

• Abwehrflammenwerfer 42
• Flame fougasse
• X-200 mine
• XM-54 mine

Chemical mines [edit]

British troops load a Livens gas projector.

• Livens Projector _{see note}^[1]
• KhF-1 bounding gas mine
• KhF-2 bounding gas mine
• M1 chemical mine
• M23 chemical mine
• Spruh-Buchse 37
• Yperite mine

Anti-helicopter mines [edit]

• 4AHM-100 mine
• AHM-200 mine
• AHM-200-1 mine
• AHM-200-2 mine
• Anti Transport Mine (Bulgaria)
• Helkir mine
• PMN-150 mine
• PMN-250 mine
• TEMP 20

Nuclear land mines [edit]

Three scientists pose with a Medium Atomic Demolition Munition, the warhead is the smaller cylinder to the left, its casing is to the right.

• Blue Peacock
• Medium Atomic Demolition Munition
• Special Atomic Demolition Munition

Mines by country of origin [edit]

Austria [edit]

• Helkir mine

Bulgaria [edit]

• 4AHM-100 mine
• AHM-200 mine
• AHM-200-1 mine
• AHM-200-2 mine
• Anti Transport Mine (Bulgaria)
• PMN-150 mine
• PMN-250 mine

Canada [edit]

• C3A1 mine

People's Republic of China [edit]

Cuba [edit]

• AT-8 (Cuban mine)
• PMFH-1 mine
• PMFH-2 mine

Former Czechoslovakia [edit]

• PP Mi-SK mine (A Czechoslovakia (POMZ-2 mine coppy, used with an RO-1 fuze.)

Denmark [edit]

• M/47 mine,

France [edit]

• MAPED F1 (France)
• Model 1948 mine

Germany [edit]

Italy [edit]

Japan [edit]

• Type 93 mine
• Type 96 mine
• Type 67 mine
• Type 99 mine

Myanmar [edit]

• MM-1 mine

South Africa [edit]

• Mini MS-803 (South Africa)

Serbia [edit]

• MRUD (Serbia)

former Soviet Union/Russia [edit]

Sri Lanka [edit]

• Rangan 99 (Tamil Elam mine)
• Jony 95 (Tamil Elam mine)
• P4Mk1
• Type 72

United Kingdom [edit]

United States [edit]

Former Yugoslavia [edit]

• MRUD (Serbia)
• PROM-1
• PMA-2 "Pašteta"
• PMA-3 mine
• PMR-1 mine
• PMR-2A mine
• TMM-1

Vietnam [edit]

• MD-82 mine.
• MBV-78A1 mine

A Yugoslav MURD 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.

See also [edit]

• Fougasse (weapon).
• Mine clearance agencies.
• Demining.
• Hydrema mine clearing vehicle.
• Virtual minefield.
• The Ottawa Treaty.
• Special Atomic Demolition Munition
• Uzbek-Tajikistan border minefields

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} The Livens Projector is more of a mortar than a land mine but it is described as "arguably the first chemical mine" in The Origins of Military Mines: Part I, Major William C. Schneck and is consequently included here.

• Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance 2005-2006
• Brassey's Essential Guide to Anti-Personnel Landmines, Eddie Banks
• Foreign Mine Warfare Equipment, TM 5-223