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TM-35 at the Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain, Sevastopol. The TM-35 was a rectangular, metal-cased Soviet anti-tank mine used during the Second World War. The mine has a metal case, which is rectangular with a carrying handle on one side and a large raised pressure plate in the centre.
Soviet TM-35 mine at the Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol on Sapun Mountain, Sevastopol The German Tellermine was a purpose-built anti-tank mine first introduced in 1929. Some variants were of a rectangular shape, but in all cases the outer casing served only as container for the explosives and fuze, without being used to ...
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 .
Anti-tank mine: 9.7 kg Amatol [16]: 37–38 TM-46 [15] Anti-tank mine: 5.7 kg TNT [16]: 15–16 TM-57 [15] Anti-tank mine: 6.34 kg TNT [16]: 15–16 TM-62: Anti-tank mine: 7.5 kg TNT [15] TM-72: Anti-tank mine: 2.5 kg HEAT PDM-1: Amphibious anti-tank: 10 kg TNT [16]: 91–92 TM-83: Off-route mine: 6.6 kg TNT
TM-62M – the wire safety clip is still in place; the mine has not been armed. The TM-62 is a series of Soviet anti-tank blast mines produced in various variants. It served as the primary anti-tank landmine for the Soviet military. [4] It has a central fuze and typically a 7.5 kilograms (17 lb) explosive charge, but the variants differ greatly ...
MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 ...
The two larger mines are Soviet TM-62P2 and TM-46 (with a PFM-1 lying on it) antitank mines. The PMN (Russian: противопехотная мина нажимная, romanized: protivopekhotnaya mina nazhimnaya, lit. 'anti-personnel pressure mine') series of blast anti-personnel mines were designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union.
Two years earlier, a mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people, including several children. In 1913, 263 people died in another explosion at a mine in Dawson, New Mexico.