Stock Mine

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The Stock Mine was a German anti-personnel stake mine used during the Second World War. It consisted of a cylindrical concrete main body on top of a short wooden stake. The concrete head contained a small bursting charge, and was embedded with a number of metal fragments. A fuze is fitted to a central fuze well on the top of the mine. It could be used with a range of fuzes including the ZZ 35, ZZ 42 and ZU ZZ 35 that would trigger on either a tripwire pull or release.

A number of copies of the mine were produced after the war by different countries including the Cuban PMFC-1, the Czechoslovakian PP-Mi-Sb, and the Yugoslavian PMR-2 which is found in Bosnia and Croatia.

[edit] Specifications

	Stock Mine	PMFC-1	PMR-2	PP Mi-Sb
Height (excluding stake)	165 mm	150 mm	180 mm (approx)	140 mm
Diameter	70 mm	75 mm	80 mm	75 mm
Weight	2 kg	2 kg	2.2 kg	2.1 kg
Explosive content	0.1 kg	0.075 kg of TNT	0.075 kg of TNT	0.075 kg of TNT
Operating pressure	various	1 to 15 kg	3 kg pull	1 to 15 kg pull