US M14 Low Metallic Antipersonnel Landmine
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2022
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How to install and remove the M14 "Toe Popper". I believe low metallic mines like these should not be used. They are very very very hard to detect and injure more civilians than enemy soldiers.
We had these in the Australian army in the 80s and early 90s. At the Land Combat Battle School in Tully we learned jungle warfare and how to use these and other devices like grenades and claymore mines in ambushes and as IEDs to booby trap obstacles and facilities.
One of the instructors, a Vietnam war veteran used to say “You gotta be a sick bastard to be good at this.”
why are vietnam fuds constantly repeated like this? in the military you will constantly, everywhere you go meet the guy who is a "sick bastard" stone cold killer. it's like he is following you
its just how it is @@kingkarlito
There’s a guy in every pub in a mile radius of Hereford who reckons they were the first SAS bloke through the window at the embassy siege back in the day
@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks Just ask them "What is the color of the boathouse at Hereford?" and then ambush them with a cup of coffee.
@@PaulieMcCoy amazing film
I was a combat engineer and land mines are one thing Ive always feared
as you should
them things aint toys
mines and snipers
I saw some footage and was amazed. The Russians have used a device that spews landmines from a truck. Another that spreads them via artillery and yet others get spread by planes. Its not like the old days with maps of the minefields. They have so saturated things they keep blowing up their own tanks and vehicles trying to do any maneuvering they are losing more stuff to their mines than the Ukrainians but Putin doesn't care about his own troops he just wants to slow the Ukrainians anyway he can. The Ukrainians used the first minefields clearing explosive lines to wipe out Russians in trenches. They would pull up over the trenches and launch them sideways to take out anyone in the trenches which was a pretty novel usage for the MCLKls. Mic clics? Not sure how to spell that one..
1371!!!!!! I always feared the pmn series of mines. That's a big stick it's packin..
Probe at an angle, you’ll be fine, they say
We called them "toe poppers". I didn't like them because our mine detectors, 50 years ago, didn't pick them up very well. We were told that you could put a mouse trap boobytrap under it but not to do it. There was a c rat can that worked for cutting the hole. Probably a fruit salad can. We had several old NCOs that had fought in WWII and they taught a lot of practical things that weren't in the books. I agree with your dislike. I think that I recall a problem with an "O" ring seal on them hardening. Good video. The Army retired me 21 years ago so, I won't see anymore battlefields. Good Luck, Rick
Could you not use shaped charges to deactivate these?
@@MartinMartin-bh4ke You could but, that would be a waste of resources. We used to have limited resources and had to be efficient with it or we could run out. If really worried, a 1/2 package of C-4 is cheaper and usually more available. It is sufficient, through sympathetic detonation, to destroy almost all explosives. Good Luck, Rick
@@richardross7219 What if you made your own shaped charge?
Also did you guys not get those rats that sniff them out?
btw if you used explosive to blow up a mine and used too little what kind of danger would that create?
@@MartinMartin-bh4ke Time is a resource so, you don't waste it. A shape charge is for putting a hole through something. As combat engineers we had 25# shape charges, usually used for putting holes in the ground to lower 40# ammonium nitrate charges to create craters.
I'm not sure about the insufficient explosive question. The C-4 always worked for me. I was usually building bridges. It was a valuable skill that usually wasn't wasted on other things. After I got out, I built bridges as a civilian too. The training that I received in the Army paid off for me. Good Luck, Rick
Awesome information Richard. Thanks for your service!
Something particularly vicious about this design is that after that mine has been sitting there for months and months in the dirt getting rained on. I'd bet It is going to be impossible to reinsert that safey clip and to rotate it into the safe position
I bet one trying this could get deep 6! 🤯☠️
This all assumes you HAVE enough of those safety clips & arming wrenches when you run into them! Though I imagine once the detonator is removed, you could re-use a clip?
Anyhow, I thought there was a UN treaty banning land mines that AREN'T easy to find with a metal detector!
Nasty buggers indeed!
@@burgerforcongress1001probably is but sometimes militaries will ignore those rules and do it anyway, also probably helps if your country was the only major power that didnt sign said treaty and thus are technically not bound by its rules.
@@burgerforcongress1001all NATO countries must use land mines that can be detected via radar and have a self detonation timer, normally around 2 weeks until it blows up. nobody follows it because we use butterfly mines in ukraine but whatever.
Ran into a lot of these Mozambique 90'-92'
Truly are a nasty piece of work.
What military?
@@xxxm981probably South African
That sledge hammer installation technique was a pretty ingenious idea.
Indeed
Imagine if that type of thinking were not used to wage war
Pops was marine recon in Vietnam. He said they put on 2-3 wraps of det cord and set the mines on trails they intentionally made for VC to follow.
Your pops may have been part of MAC SOG ops as MIKE FORCE (marines) as they would do that do deter trackers and LZ watchers. Also plant rigged bullets and overall disrupt VC operations. Thank him for his service.
God that’s awful 😞
@@halloweentimemachine But effective
Its also good to know what the plugs and clips, or even wrench look like. If you see those it can indicate to exercise caution.
Check out the ppE100 anti-mine boots they're meant to withstand stepping on a toe popper wish our guys had those back then I know they made anti-mine boots back then but they weren't as good as you see today
Sounds like great content for the channel "project farm". "Will Cousin Eddie have his foot by the time the testing is done?"
@@jmd1743 that's really putting your trust in the product I don't know if I would trust it without real world combat testing cuz everything could work perfect in a controlled environment then completely fail in real combat
Former USAF and totally unaware of these type of devices. Great description and commentary.
Out of all the weapons used in war the mine is the most terrifying for me. Especially since you can easily put it to the back of your mind and forget about them
When wars end, the soldiers go home but the mines stay vigilant, ready to kill.
"do not take the mine and *smack* it" is some good life advice....
I really appreciate the info. I’ve always wondered about these and the US doctrine in using them. I can recall during my service in the Corps we were trained on how to identify the old Soviet mines and the auburn color Hungarian mines. Thanks for posting. Semper Fi
Completely random comment, didn't expect to read about anyone mentioning GYATA mines! My father learned to lay those in the mid 70s along with the ones mounted on raised poles with tripwires. They got so good at it, the officer checking the practice field tripped 3 before he noticed.
My time in the corps I was trained around IEDs, they were incredibly hard to detect. Many of the training scenarios had heavy casualties. I've been looking at the videos of Ukrainian soldiers getting legs blown off by these....thinking of away to prevent it. The only thing I've thought of so far involved stepping on a long wide plate place on top of the danger area to even out the pressure to hopefully prevent detonation....
@@CountChokcula I had a similar idea, I watched a video of a failed medevac from a minefield and they were using the ramp of the Bradley in a similar fashion. If they could apply the arms of a Bobcat and a big fucking armor plate to squash the ground and contain the explosion/provide a platform for rescuers to safely move casualties, it would be revolutionary
So they used a "dummy" to train with?@@KorianHUN
@@CountChokcula Or something similar to snow shoes. Probably would limit mobility though.
Heya Brother,
This was a very good block of instruction on the "Toe Popper"... thank you for taking me back to FT Lost in the Woods and my AIT days😅
ESSAYONS!
I'm surprised flail tanks aren't used to clear old minefields anymore. They used them back in WWII to clear the beaches in Normandy and elsewhere. Basically, a big rotating drum with lengths of chain attached to it connected to a tank. You lower the drum while it's rotating and it smacks the ground in a wide swath, detonating any mines in the vicinity. It would neutralize these - and any other pressure-detonated mines - fast.
They are still used. Not in a combat role much anymore but primarily post conflict.
@@SecurityGuy42 To add to that, they are mostly unmanned nowadays, due to the risks of overpressure for the crew.
You cant really use them in combat situations due to ATGMs and way longer range anti tank gunnery. Back then, personel AT weapons had ranges of tenths to few 100s of meters, now, you can be shot at from 4 kms by fire and forget missiles launched from "shoulder".
@@honzavasicek Yeah, that's why I said "old minefields", as opposed to minefields in an active combat zone. I don't think they used flail tanks to clear hot zone minefields even in WWII, only after action. I'm thinking more about ways to make areas safer for civs/kids after the war's over.
@@Calamity_JackVehicles with flails or rollers are the most common way minefields are cleared in many parts of the world, so I don't get how you could be surprised they "aren't used" anymore.
The US never gives me any free antipersonnel mines :(
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing your unique knowledge and expertise on this topic.
I don't think I've seen a 4:3 video uploaded in over a decade that wasn't an archive... that's almost impressive
i think this is an archive, he talks about 2002 like its a recent date around the 5 minute mark
Nope. This one was done within the past 2 years.
@trivy1752 for some of us it still feels recent.
Landmines are one of those things that enforce area deterrence in warfare, making the landscape hostile to your enemy. And, yourself, and everyone until the mines are removed or detonated. They make tactical sense until they're no longer needed, and then they become a logistical and humanitarian nightmare. Modern US antipersonnel mines are as I understand designed to have a "shelf life" after emplacement that prevents them from blowing up long after the war is over, but I'm sure there's hacks to make them remain dangerous. The battlefield encourages ingenuity.
You are seriously wrong about the life of US mines. There is no shelf life.
@@SecurityGuy42 I'm referring to actual US military policy regarding landmines, and an update to 2014 policy that mandates that all anti-personnel landmines must render themselves inert or self-destruct within 30 days. Except, of course, on the Korean Peninsula, which has a broad carveout in all existing policy and one reason the US is not a signatory to the Ottawa Treaty of 2002. Obviously, US mines placed prior to such a mandate will be of the more persistent varietal, and continue to be the scourge that unexploded ordnance is to civilian populations. I'm not trying to cast aspersions on the quality of US military hardware.
So, just to get this straight, you don't actually hammer the mine into the ground?
only once
yikes, no, just to drive a plug of soil into the ground, then the mine goes in the hole DO NOT STRIKE THE MINE, also "do not take the mine and smack it" ~SecurityGuy42
@@asherael That was a joke son.
@@frankroberts9320 can you count on that anymore? ever?
@@asherael Probably not. Whole lotta stupid going 'round.
They should put in batteries set to go dead at some preset interval after installation and deactivate the mine. Having a mine with a long lifetime is a danger to civilians.
The USA refuses to sign the anti mine treaty. Mines are a nightmare most of the rest of the world is trying to get past but a very few countries refuse to get rid of them.
Ya, same thing with fire weapons. The US has this attitude like, what are you going to do about it. Germany did the same thing with the Bismarck like, ya we aren't supposed to make ships this big but are you going to try to physically stop us.
In case you didn't notice land mines are very effective. It would be stupid to handicap our troops by denying them a very effective tool.
In the British army we had the Elsie mine. A plastic mine with a metal (removable) ring round it. We were told always to make sure the metal ring was on the mine when it was emplaced (wink wink). We all knew if we were really going to use the mines, the metal ring would be removed.
In 1978 in Sinai my EOD buddy taught me to look out for the shipping covers and metal detectability clips the soldiers would toss aside when they placed mines.
One day I was souvenir hunting and peeking up were two Israeli metal clips. We held still and we’re able to spot a mine near. Walked back on our footprints slowly. After this crazy Ukraine war I’d love to work (safely) de-mining using all new technologies such as drone carried ground radar (little car creeps ahead scanning) and mine kill with water jet or water disruption. There’s years and years of work to be done.
@@richardkudrna7503 Isreal still does this nowadays, along with bombing hospitals and dumping cancerous chemicals in peoples water!
In certain parts of Europe, they still come across UXDs from the last two wars! I have not heard of anything being found in Ukraine, however, they were involved in World War Two as well, so I would not be surprised if there are leftovers there as well.@@richardkudrna7503
That’s four hundred years of solid work…
@@richardkudrna7503 Rats I am told do well. They can smell the explosive.
“The old training videos show these being applied with a sledgehammer”
You want me to do WHAT?
You'd love it, because it means less work. One hit, perfect hole with solid bottom, as explained in the video.
Yeah I misunderstood that too.
Thanks for sharing. I agree about who get injured most.
Even though I know he is a highly trained professional I still felt anxious watching this. Terrifying and terrible.
Come to Myanmar
A scourge to the planet. I hate it. Thank you for sharing.
det cord was sometimes coiled under the mine to add to the lethality
Haha funny to see you here!
@@skillercruz5539 i get around lol
Definitely a true "are we the baddies?" moment
Great, now me, a civilian living in Canada, is fully trained to arm and de-arm the M14 Anti-Personnel mine. I will use this knowledge daily.
When I was stationed in South Korea I ended up going up to Warrior Base on the DMZ. There was a very heavy rain and mines had been washed out into the road. Pretty cool to see but they slowed my convoy down quite a bit!
What year were you there? I was all over that theater C co 1/503inf 1992
Thank you for the video. I see that you and I as many other humans believe that plastic anti personnel mines should never be allowed due the the fact they are left behind for some innocent civilian to step on. I will add that all anti personnel mines especially the butterfly mines that look like toys shouldn’t be used due to children and animals dying by the thousands around the world. Peace is all we can hope for.
War is an ugly thing, civilian casualties even moreso, if any compromise is to be reached across all parties we should at least push for redundant detonator systems to reduce the chance for non-combatant injury/death. Would be great if mines had something like a year or two lifespan before detonating or going completely inert.
So, when you are a country like Ukraine, fighting an invading country like Russia, you should not allow your side to acquire or use mines, but will still have to fight against an enemy that uses millions of mines? The trouble with "not allowing" things is that is only works if everyone agrees to it, and abides by it. Hoping for peace doesn't seem like a realistic defence strategy.
Personnel mines are so evil.
I would not try removing that manually. A cheap grappling hook should suffice and if that doesn't work, a small C4 charge next to it. If it's a field of these. Then a large mine roller is the best solution.
Grappling hook or just any hook and cordage 👍
@@user-nl4ir7cx5r A grappling hook and rope. A regular hook would fall over flat and would not catch onto the mine. The reason you use a grappling hook is because very often, anti-handling devices are placed under AT mines so that they will explode if moved. In this case on the road, it's probably not likely as they would protrude from the bottom and could be seen, but on soft ground or on buried mines, they are sometimes used. Grappling hooks are also an important tool for combat engineers to move suspected IED's safely so as to expose wires attached to them (or break those command detonation and battery wires) from a safer distance or from behind cover.
@@user-nl4ir7cx5r I forgot to mention also that one problem with grappling hooks, is that they can catch on other things like roots and stuff. That's one reason why these days EOD have robots that can precisely put down small C4 charges or actually physically move the mine in the case of larger EOD robots. No matter what method is used, when stealth is required clearing mines is a tedious process. However if stealth isn't required, a vehicle equipped with mine rollers, a mine plow, or a MICLIC (rocket propelled hose filled with C4 designed to clear lanes of mines) can be used for semi-rapid breaching through mine fields. But as we've seen in Ukraine, mine clearing vehicles get destroyed first by defenders. Mechanized combat engineering is probably one of the most, if not THE most dangerous job in the military as they are literally the tip of the spear breaching through enemy mine fields and other fortifications. Without supporting infantry, artillery, and air support, they usually get destroyed. That is why often clearing lanes for armored vehicles requires infantry to go forward on foot making incremental advances from trench system to trench system to avoid being caught out in the open and being wiped out by artillery, machine gun fire, and snipers. As they move forward combat engineers clear a lane behind them of any mines. That way armored vehicles can move forward to provide fire support while medivac vehicles and other logistics vehicles can move forward to remove casualties, deliver supplies, and bring replacement soldiers to relieve exhausted soldiers on the front-lines. It's an incredibly complex process that most civilians don't understand.
Humans are so good in making things that hurt or kill other humans.
Because SMART humans HATE DUMB humans and DON'T CARE IF THEY DIE....Also WARS unless civil are only for profit or gain for the elite muppets.
I’d say we have gotten better at reducing life lost. In just the last 100 years alone we went from carpet bombing whole cities to get one building to putting one bomb down the ventilation shaft of a building to get the bunker under it.
@@NavyVet4955bombing german and Austrian cities by the USA and the British was to break the population. Whatever that means. How could they fight nazis by burning down whole cities with phosphorus bombs? Stupid Generals. Also Hiroshima and nagasaki was a war crime.
You americans killed more than a million Vietnamese who had done nothing to you and you are responsible for more then a million more civilians since then. And still at it. Got better at reducing live lost ??? How brainwashed of you. @@NavyVet4955
Yeah lots of battlefield options are also going non lethal.
Thank you for the reminder in the description, nearly made a big mistake there.
I found all high and low metallic mines in all of my lanes when I’ve trained with the pss14, this is the kind of stuff that scares me
Fascinating, but also very tragic.
It is high time that the USA joins the "Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction" aka Ottawa Treaty. Low Metallic Mines are especially heinous because they are designed to complicate demining efforts.
The US generally never ratifies any kind of treaty like this, they tend to see it as an unacceptable relinquishing of sovereignty. Despite this they do often mostly abide by the sentiment of these treaties, using American law or military policy to do so, and often allowing for exceptional circumstances where the inability to use the weapon in question would leave them unable to fulfill a vital capability, or just in case the need arises. For instance the US has effectively banned the use of antipersonnel mines, with the exception of the Korean DMZ, and cluster munitions are now not part of US military doctrine, and they have been steadily decommissioning their stocks for a couple of decades.
0:35 anybody carrying mines in their pockets should be demoted 😂
What a cute little mine!
Just watching you handle it gives me the willies. Very educational, but also makes you think of how many of these pieces of crap are out there waiting to ruin some civilian's life. Too bad nations can't be coerced into cleaning these things up after they're done killing each other.😢
In addition to mines the US has left around 80 million unexploded bombs in Laos (many are cluster bomblets). On average about 50 people a year are either maimed or killed in Laos by those munitions. You would think we would have taken at least some responsibility in cleaning it up - but no. The United Nations UXO Laos cleans up about 65,000 a year.
That shits disgusting, no developed country should resort to using AP mines.
Rather develope some technology to effectively clear mine fields in a manner that makes it unviable for the enemy to use them.
I could see myself as a kid finding this and playing with it thinking it was just a toy or something 😢😢😢
That little thing is terrifying
While I was doing my military service in the ammunition company, in 2008, we delivered 5 trucks of ammunition in the warehouses to the destruction points with the order of NATO to collect and destroy these mines. Our commander said that it was a very insidious type of mine.
Very educational video, thank you. Absolutely disgusting in practice. We need to move away from warfare.
That type of wrench set up is used on self adjusting parking brake for rear disc, brakes on cars, equipped with rearview specs for the past 20 or 30 years. I wonder if I could use one of these wrenches
I have to say: those appear to be very effective
Excellent video brother.
Land mines are terrifying
Great well detailed vid! Thank for sharing your know how!
The most evil lowish tech weapon I can think of.
FUN FACT plastic shrapnel can’t be detected by X-rays!
The infamous toe popper.
6:30 the sudden camera movement had me thinking he just set that toe popper off and went to see his maker 😮😅
I dealt with some of the Chinese versions of this mine in Syria they were damm near impossible to detect with our detectors. The same thing goes for some of the IED's I have dealt with in Afghanistan Iraq and Syria some of them the only way we found them was coming across the pressure plate and then work from there following the wires to the IED. They will definitely pucker your butthole. Anywho thanks for posting these videos they brought back some good and bad memories. War isn't all rainbow's lollipops and unicorn farts 😂🤣
Never see the actual mine or dummy one during the service, only seen on the TM menu in the Army, it was a piece of museum arts😅🤣
Damn. That is nasty. Thanks for this.
Wow, very informative, good video.
Training m14 had a small explosive charge which let out purple/dark blue smoke if detonated.
No it didn't. Not in the US inventory.
I remember one of the mine removal charities talking about how a lot of these and similar low metal or no metal AP mines are brightly or attractively coloured. Meaning that children tend to pick them up.
No, every live one I’ve ever used was olive drab green in color. The inert, training versions, are blue.
Also, in a combat environment, please explain why would I want a mine painted a bright color that stuck out like a sore thumb.
You're thinking of the Russian/Soviet butterfly antipersonnel mines.
@@garyowen9044 please explain why they get left after it isn't a combat environment. I like military stuff but mines are no ones friend.
They are a scourge on the battlefield afterwards but metallic mines don't work on the battlefield.....all the do is sort of slow the effort down....but not long,once a guy steps in one the don't sweep with a detector.The just set off explosives to blow a path right through it
Mines are ONLY meant to slow an enemy.
Land mines are everywhere in Vietnam Today. This is why a huge part of Vietnam is uninhabitable. I would love to explorer my country but i don't want to die doing it.
At 5:24 I got a little scared when I seen the top spin a little when he touched it, lol. My stomach tightened
Glad he explained how they put it in the ground with a sledgehammer, 'cause at first that sounds like a crazy suicidal thing to do.
what a disgusting little bomb. so much potential for civilian casualties
The only question I have is... can I find them at my local Army Surplus shop?
It’s interesting for sure. They are a terrible liability.
Do any type of mines work like in the movies? You know the classic hear a click and only blows if you move?
Not that I am aware of. I have come across fuzes in manuals from the 1950s for antitank mines that were designed to be activated by the first vehicle driving over it and then detonated by the 2nd. I don't think they were manufactured though.
Nah. There is no click that I am aware of. You step on it to trigger it.
@@rewrite1239belville spring that’s bowed up normally, then when stepped on, the spring snaps into the *other* position, driving the pin into the primer… *BANG!*
Generally no, sometimes "yes" (sort of). Some simple German S-mines (bouncing betty) used a friction fuze at the end of a steel cable anchored to the mine.
Walk on the mine (click), then take your foot off: the mine goes airborne and blows when it reaches the end of its cable.
It seems like anti personnel mines would work better if they had some kind of proximity trigger so they go off when someone is close, not directly stepping on it.
The more expensive ones like the claymore do, but this isn't for killing the enemy, it's just an inexpensive way of slowing them down and forcing them to worry over every step they take. Plus you can actually just jury rig these in the field with a proximity fuse if you really want to.
Cool video
Seems like its safer to just bash it with a long stick than attempt to disarm it. You make a mistake and you are permanently maimed.
this is what people have been doing in Ukraine, wacking small AP mines with sticks or throwing tyres on them. Janky but it clearly works well enough
@@chamonix4658 Huck a few rocks at 'em... That'll work!!
Yeah, if it's just the AP mine on its own. You never know how many are going to have another, bigger mine underneath.
@@Rayman1971 Whoops you missed, now you have a heavy rock poised awkwardly over the mine but not quite tripping it, now what? And/or throw a rock up in the air to land on someone...
Throw another rock at it!!!
@@gavinjenkins899
Was thinking. Could those be used as Granates in a pinch? Like arm it then toss. I know it might not be deadly, but ought to scare the f out of an enemy solider if it strikes the wall, or ground next to them.
Or would these be too unstable, and explode if attempted to be trown?
Bad idea
I was not aware of the strict rules described by the doctrines.
Im not a fan of antipersonalmines but i can kinda accept eg claymore mines.
But these toe-nibblers is not my friends - very pleased to hear theyl only be deployed in the outmost dire situations.
This stuff is not for fun..
note; they are build by the lowest cost bidder , I would not trust them ever...!
Always wear gloves when handling land mines. Ya know, for protection.
This seems like a very dangerous mine to arm/disarm
Isn't there a way to make the fuse degradable so they become harmless after a few months?
How many of these go off while trying to arm them?
Basically, if there was a war and soldiers were there, don’t ever let your kids or dogs anywhere near the place. Smh
Everyone being spooked when it doesn’t have blasting cap and maybe even doesn’t contain secondary.
The punisher show wouldve been perfect if gunner had these pups everywhere
Where do you buy these? Are perfect bangers at the next football cup 😁
They were not designed to kill. they were meant to injure, maim but never kill.
For a second i thought the title said anti personal mines. If you don't want people standing real close to you in line or something, you can throw out a hand full of mines.
They created a light weight mine….
That’s needs to be installed using a heavy sledgehammer!😂😂
offtopic, I get confused by Americas designations at times...
Is the M14 not a Rifle?
That also. You can have the same designation for multiple items. Look up M-1.
Cool.
...thank you for the post, hopefully never need to apply this information and absolutely appreciated in any case.,...
(That green color just makes me think of rotten-ness, oddly appropriate.)
Instructions not clear, I threw it like a baseball ball
M26 was a nightmare.
you any way would not pick it up with a metaldetector i there was a big battle the soil is full of metall bullets and spliter its manual laber to remove mines
Wow my thoughts was not pretty when he said they used sledgehammers to install these! Lmao
It seems like you should be able to design some sort of electric trigger that needs X amount of current to allow it to go off, and then have an LED in there that slowly wastes battery life until the watch battery is drained after a few days or whatever, and now it won't go off. All with basically no significant metal (tiny little filament wires)
just use a lipo cell
they slowly drain after a few months
eventually it will be dead and well
if the explosives aren't fire sensitive then if the battery is punctured the resulting fire won't detonate the mine
One nation under God.
What blows my mine; They outlaw stuff like cluster bombs and flechette rounds, poison gas, but one of the few weapons that can still kill indiscriminately long after a war's over they don't outlaw.
Well, who's "they"?
Plenty of countries have outlawed antipersonnel mines, plenty of countries haven't outlawed cluster bombs.
The people who put together the Hague and Geneva conventions
Crazy im 50 never heard of there
BTW: You earned a sub today
You were making me so nervous with how casually you were handling that mine, well at least I know I could remove one myself. I was also wondering how many mexicans lost their hands in the development of this mine, someone had to work out those arming procedures...