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Appendix C: Current Types of U.S. Landmines
Appendix C: Current Types of U.S. Landmines
Pages 92-98
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These include an inability to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants; the need for launch platforms for remotely delivered mines; and fratricide among friendly forces. FOR USE AGAINST DISMOUNTED THREATS Dismounted soldiers can be targeted using either handemplaced APL or the family of scatterable mines (FASCAM)
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AT Y L Y X Note: Systems in italics will not be available outside Korea after 2003 and will not be available anywhere once the Ottawa Convention is ratified. 93 FIGURE C-1 Landmine systems on the battlefield.
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The Claymore mine is issued with an electric initiation system (hand generator, wire, and electric blasting cap) and is now doctrinally detonated by command, although so-called "mechanical ambushes," using trip-wires, were common during the Vietnam War.
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The trip wires are thin, olive drab filaments that are difficult to see. Each mine has a spherical prefragmented kill mechanism with a charge of 21 grams of Projectile base Mine AP Expulsion charge | Sleeve M577 fuse M483 Battery activation Pusher plate Projecti le carrier rod FIGURE C-6 ADAM mine projectile.
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However, subsequent evolutions of requirements ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO REPLACE ANTIPERSONNEL LANDMINES and the exigencies of the development program have precluded these options. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, Hornet/WAM will be hand emplaced, which sharply limits its utility.
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The Air Force and Navy versions of Gator differ only in the number of mines contained in the tactical munitions dispensers used to deliver them. The Air Force dispenser, the CBU-89/B, contains 72 AT mines and 22 APL; the Navy dispenser, the 97 FIGURE C-10 MOPMS.
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The system is made up of the launcher rack and dispenser-control unit, vehicle-specific mounting hardware, and mine canisters, each of which holds six mines. A completely loaded dispenser holds 160 canisters, or 960 mines.
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