List of land mines

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

This is hopefully a complete list of land mines.

Mines by type

Anti-vehicle mines

Blast mines

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

Full width mines

A German Riegelmine 43 full width mine.

Side attack mines

Wide area mines

Anti-personnel mines

Fragmentation and stake mines

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

Shaped charge mines

Directional mines

The M18A1 Claymore mine.
  • APM-1 mine
  • APM-2 mine
  • APM-3 mine
  • APM 19 mine
  • APM 29 mine
  • AVC 100 mine
  • AVC 195 mine
  • Cardoen Directional AP mine
  • DFC 19 mine
  • DFC 29 mine
  • EC-2 mine
  • FFV 013 mine
  • FFV 013R mine
  • HAMDY mine
  • HM 1000 mine
  • HzSMI NO. 80 mine
  • K440 mine
  • KM18A1 mine
  • KN-10 mine
  • M18A1 Claymore
  • MAI-GA4 mine
  • MAPED F1 mine
  • MDH-10 mine
  • MDH-C40 mine
  • Mini MS 803 mine
  • MM-1 minimore
  • MM-2 mine
  • M-25 mine
  • MMN-1 mine
  • MMN-2 mine
  • Model 123 mine
  • MON-50
  • MON-90
  • MON-100
  • MON-200
  • MRUD
  • P5 series mine
  • PADMINE
  • PMN-150 mine
  • PMN-250 mine
  • Shrapnel No. 2 Mk 1 mine
  • Shrapnel No. 2 R1M1 mine
  • SM-70 mine
  • SMI 17/4 C Giant Shotgun mine
  • SMI 17/6 C mine
  • SMI 20/1 C mine
  • SMI 21/3 C mine
  • SMI 21/11 C mine
  • Type 58 stake mine
  • Type 59 stake mine
  • Type 66 mine
  • Type 67 mine
  • VS-DAFM 1
  • VS-DAFM 6
  • VS-DAFM 7

Blast mines

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

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

Chemical mines

British troops load a Livens gas projector.

Anti-helicopter mines

Nuclear land mines

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

Mines by country of origin

Austria

Bulgaria

Canada

People's Republic of China

Cuba

Former Czechoslovakia

Sweden

France

Germany

Italy

Japan

Myanmar

South Africa

Serbia

former Soviet Union/Russia

Sri Lanka

United Kingdom

United States

Former Yugoslavia

Vietnam

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.

References