We called this mine "PATE" in Bosnian war. My friend went to collect mushrooms 2000's~and he stepped on this mine. He died cause he couldn't get help since he went deep in mine field and he got out of blood. It's not problem if you step on mine, problem is that you need hours and hours to get help, cause none want to go into mine field.
Izvini Jaro. And after flooding he's right alot of mines in Bosnia changed locations. may God have mercy on us slavs as it seems we just can't fucking stop killing each other.it breaks my heart to see what's happening in Ukraine and once again in Bosnia. zivjela bosna
@@samholdsworth420 Bosnia is full of them, I live in a city surrounded by hills and the opposing forces, aswell as our forces layed a lot of mines there during the war, it is a big safety hazard but people regularly go there to try and clean the area
Well made animation, I showed this to a Vietnam veteran who was a combat engineer that who has experience with these. He said there are a few things you missed: The Belleville spring (firing spring) is the only major bit of metal in the mine. The mine was never issued primed. The mine was issued with a arming wrench to turn the pressure plate. Also the safety clip was removed after arming not before, this was done so if the Belleville spring activated (because of damage or defects) while arming the safety clip would stop the pressure plate from going any further and stop it from going off in your hand. Truly a scary bit of ordnance.
Interesting animation , however with one flaw; the M14 mine is shurely not air delivered, as it is not suitable for that. They are burried one by one on the required place. The air delivered mines are the BLU 43B and BLU44B dragontooth and the BLU 42B
Like a bouncing Betty or a canister launching antipersonnel mine that blows up around the mid section or the neck area like the NVA and VC would rig upsidedown from Vines and undergrowth in the trackless section's of the Bush that when tripped they shot downward Into the columns of closely spaced pairs of infantry that would get it at that face and chest or back of the head and spinal column and sets off the other 20 spaced out in bricklayers pattern staggered just enough apart and in stair stepped line or from grid point to grid point to ensure maximum likely hood of successful contact
We called them Toe Poppers. I have never heard of them being air delivered. They are primarily used as a hasty mine to block a trail when being pursued. They have a metal ring in the bottom to make them detectable for removal. This was a modification of the initial design.
Never heard of them airborne either.....I remember being taught how "the enemy" might use them sideways with a wire and mre spoon trigger against and being told "don't ever do this,it's illegal but you need to know what the enemy does....wink wink"
@@alisonhilll4317 nope.....not even sure where you got that from Hollywood. The primary aerial released anti-personnel miners what's known as a butterfly mine which comes from the Soviet backslash Russian arsenal and was banned. Personnel mines dropped from helicopters is not something the US has done
Dad talked about small mines in Europe, WW2. If you only get injured, then it takes two more soldiers to haul you back to an aid station, that reduces the enemy by three. If he dies, they only lose one. It's not always the way you think. If you shoot and wound someone, it takes extra personnel to get him to the aid station.
@@spicydiarrhea5662 Genocide is a rather big claim to make, but mass graves are commonplace in war as well. Why bother giving every dead enemy an individual grave, you have a war to fight. Let's not forget cases where Russian POWs were executed by Ukrainians. There are no heroes in war.
@@thatonerussiandictator5412 yes genocide is a big claim, but what else do you call collecting and lining large quantities of civilians in front of a big hole and then executing them?
May almighty God watch over you in this dangerous work. Landmine contamination still effects millions today, but many in the west do not know because it’s so far from home..
0:49 You are not pointing to the Belleville Spring; you are pointing to the empty space between the Belleville Spring and the Partition that caps the Main Charge. The Belleville Spring is the conical diaphragm that holds the Firing Pin assembly.
ai created this video. its still in its infant stage. that there are shitloads of wrong informations spred through this cheap vids, is not interesting anyone.
@@snakeplissken2148 AI did not "create" this video, humans did. It had an AI narrator, but that was the extent of AI's involvement in this video. Did you honestly think someone went to an online AI-generative service, typed in a description, and AI did the rest? If so, you're relying too much on sensationalist television and Internet articles. You don't have to go all the way back to Marvin Minsky to understand what AI can and can't do (he was Old School theory), but you DO at least have to do SOME reading on the practical capabilities of AI-generative services available to the public.
I think it was the game Dying Light where I heard a character talk about Rais, the main bad guy of the story. He described how evil Rais was and that he'd torture people, cut off their limbs or severely debilitate them so it takes 2 or 3 other people to take care of 1 person. These landmines can do the same.
I was thinking the same, engineering student here. The day my future company would want me to design something like this, I'd quit. Engineers are supposed to make the world better.
There is an interesting Italian ap mine called sb-33.. Little whit basically no metal only glass and plastic whit irregular forms like a stone, plus they had the mercury anti handling devices... It's an hell of a mine... For civs, soldier and engineers.. There are tons around iraq/Kurdistan, Syria and Bosnia... Think they are banned
Apparently it was designed to be resistant to overpressure as well so mine-clearing charges didn't even work on it. Sounds like a scary piece of engineering.
@@scottcantdance804 not sound... It's a scary pice of war engineering.. >cheap and easy to build > easy to scatter them around In huge quantities a fast > extremely high chance that someone set one or more off > extremely difficult to defuse whit huge probabilities of injury or dead of an expert EOD engineer.. Which I think is a huuuge loss of highly trained personnel whit long and high cost of training and in most army a pain to replace
When you hear of mines in Ukraine, you wonder how Mines are legal in war.. maybe they are a war crime idk.I always thought you had a few seconds if you stepped on one like the movies portray lol. I asked my uncle who served in Iraq and regional conflicts as a Para trooper with the 82nd Airborne, how long you have when you step on one. 0 Seconds. he told me how his buddy stepped on one that blew him up killing him, idk the size it was.
Land mines, in and of themselves, aren't a warcrime, but how you use them easily can be. It requires a combination of very careful record keeping and timed set destruct mechanisms to keep you within international law.
If you still think (feel) in terms of legality, consider that the UN and League of Nations made war of aggression illegal. Problem Solved? Murder is illegal everywhere too.
A lethal mine = dead solider, move on. Cover the body with leaves... A toe-popper = injured soldier in need of medical support...two-three men to care for one wounded. Same reason hollow-point bullets are banned: instant lethality from an expanding bullet makes war 'too easy'...better to use bullets that cause life-threatening injury. Wars have never been won by killing folks; they get lost by the Army that can't move when and where it wants to.
Correct on the mine, wrong on the hollow point. Hollow points were banned due to a view that they were unnessecerily wounding, and brutal, when a bullet wound from a non expanding bullet could some times hit you and take you out of the fight, but survive. The idea isnt to cause more logistics for the opinent, but to let more of the opponent survive the battle. Since we made the rule war has become much more lethal, making it seem silly.
hollow point also dosent work well in rifle rounds, and most modern armies uses body armor with lv3 or higher plates, which hollow point has no chance to penetrate.
Do a video on the laws on the use of land mines and the loop holes countries use to deploy them. I think it’s interesting it’s been banned and outlawed but everyone seems to have or use them any way.
The mine is such a loathsome device. To think that people dreamed up these horrific mines that maim , mutilate and kill other humans. They must be evil.
My friend who was archeology student, Told me about method to destroy this mine in Laos and Thailand's Border. They use cattle to walk around mine field and when it explode villagers had a big meal. Sad It's only method that's worked.
You should explore the fact that is it a shape change that aims the majority of the energy around 8" above the base of the mine, creating a similar(though far less acute) penetration capability of an anti tank rocket, for example. This isn't a blunt force explosion, but a focused deep penetration that obliterates anything in that range with unstoppable force.
Not an airdrop mine, all need to be deliberately planted. Firing is direct, the primer has a direct path to the explosive cap inside. You can modify them quite easily to make an IED for sabotage though. 🤔
🟦…a coupla mistakes were made here,... First of all this is NOT an "Air-Dropped" mine, these are placed individually in the field,... And secondly; The safety-clip is supposed to be the LAST thing removed AFTER THE MINE HAS BEEN BURIED! .... If done the other way-around there's WAY too much of a chance of it go'n-off during installation.
Considering it's made of plastic wouldn't that make it outlawed by the Geneva convention because you can't x-ray the remove the pieces or have things changed
Not true, mines that explode so violently that who stepped on it disappears instantly are far more effective, both in terms of damage and psychological impact, that's why they were used in most historical cases of long term minelaying on borders, one man walking onto a mine and disappearing instantly is usually enough to stop dozens of other men from trying to get through, a mine that only has enough power to maim a soldier is not an effective device, it's vulnerable to short range remote detonation, it's a war crime if left behind and it has much lower psychological impact, it is effective for small tactical uses, like cutting a trail behind you while undergoing a pursuit or similar situations, in a widespread fashion it's not a more effective device than high yield HE mines.
@@dannymoneywell if I was a soldier I'd much rather step on a mine that kills me instantly than one that leaves me maimed to either die of bloodloss or be crippled for life but if you want to go down the path thay it makes total sense because it was used historically then why are weapons constantly evolving? Shouldn't we be using swords and spears then because they've been used for weapons far longer than our modern weapons have?
I'm no military expert... but isn't it "great" if you only cripple enemy soldier's? The enemy army has more work load to recover an treat the soldier and at home it need's work too to help him to recover and you prevent him from doing some job's in future like making war machinery. So the soldier can't fight on and can't help at home to win the war
Why do governments not ban these horrible things? These things will make future generations life on earth difficult. Innocent people and animals may step on these things not knowing about the dangers their past generations implanted and suffer horrendously while roaming around the woods.
You also have jumping mines. Those ones wait for you to remove your feet and they explode at ~1m from the ground, with a nice spray of metal beads... Looks for S-Mine on YT.
If I were a commander I'd prefer the enemy to survive but out of the fight cause that way injured soldiers will continue to hinder the supplies of the enemy. It might sound sadistic to other people but it's effective for strategic use.
Good point. The greatest horror of mines is post-battle remainders, even more than the threat during battle. If there are degrees of harshness, then at least know that US for many years has put self-destruct timers on their land mines.
There is an international treaty where countries have signed up to no longer use them. But few countries, including the US, have not signed up for it due to a number of geopolitical and strategic reasons behind it. Not that I am agreeing to their reasons. But it is what it is.
@@rewrite1239 Until 2010. Then the production and implementation of APLs would be no longer permitted to continue. Only anti- vehicle landmines with a non-persistent function would be permitted to be produced and used. If this was supposed to have me try to defend it, you're mistaken. APL's were one of the worst things humanity came up with for warfare and I still have issue with the continuance of anti-vehicle landmines even with the inclusion of the function.
@@rewrite1239 >What's your point? The US wasn't the one who invented the APL, and it certainly isn't the largest deployer of them.< If you read my post, I don't care who invented it. It's still an awful weapon. This is like saying athlete's foot is less bad than cancer. Okay. And? Both are still bad. We're getting far better than before. How about we don't use them at all? >All of our cluster mines that we use have timers on them for self detonation. It has been this way since at least the 1960s.< I'd like a source on that one. Because studies conducted by the UN showed that most of them used, never detonated. What is the point to this bit, here? >Mines in general are a fact of warfare and very few besides the US are willing to limit their use to be as minimal as possible except for those countries who piggyback off of the success and protection of the Americans.< I don't give a shit about how much we use mines. It's still wrong and has a negative impact on everyone in the area. I understand the use of it for sure, but doesn't mean I have to like or agree with it. I'd love to know the good it has had to the civilian population of Laos and Vietnam. Just because we have been alot better with it, doesn't mean it makes it okay. This is the same kind of logic that could be argued about the use of mustard gas, nukes, agent orange, fucking napalm and anthrax. Just because it can, doesn't mean it should. These kind of weapons are mostly banned for the specific reason: because this is a weapon that we ultimately have no control over, and doesn't discriminate. And even with these new functions, don't guarantee they'll work either let alone prevent any civilian casualties.
@@FranktheDachshund there are rules, even for war, and mayhem devices don't fit with them, the uses of weapons that cause extreme non lethal damage are crimes of war, like many other cruel tactics.
What an evil and diabolical weapon this is. Unlike most mines, this one is not meant to kill the person. It's designed to maim it's targets indiscriminately.
How does that make it diabolical? It's designed to injure and not kill. The idea behind this is that an injured soldier will receive care and bind more enemy personnel. But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. I'd much rather have my enemy use these mines against me than blow me up with half a ton of fertilizer. Yeah, it'll hurt, it'll suck, but nowadays it's relatively easy to survive. Slap a tourniquet around that leg and try to get to an OR soon and your chances of survival are above 90%. And the indiscriminate part is absolutely not special about this design. The great majority of land mines are victim operated and cannot distinguish between combatant and noncombatant. There are some antitank mines that will listen to the sounds in their environment and feel for vibrations in the ground to tell apart a car from a tank, but I'm not aware of them being used in combat so far.
@@whynotjustmyusername Not injure, maim. The typical mine is generally designed to outright kill a person. Not disfigure unsuspecting human beings. But these sort of mines, generally do not do that, there are two types of mines for anti-personal, lethal, and the kind that will disfigure you. Being maimed to the point of being useless and physically dependent on others for the rest of one's life is one of the worst things to happen to them let alone causing more than just physical trauma. Some fragments have to be LEFT inside of the mine's victim, that can cause on going pain for years. For some, death is a far better option than a lifetime of agony these things leave behind. >But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. > Yeah, not how mines generally work. You'd be lucky if that's all that happens to you if that happens. Why don't you go step on one and come back to tell us about it in a few years.
@@romankvapil9184 Maim and injure are essentially the same thing. Sure, "maim" refers more to the long term effects, but the mechanism is identical, so for the purposes of this discussion, they are identical. ">But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. > Yeah, not how mines generally work." We aren't talking about mines generally, we are talking about this specific type and that is exactly how these mines work. They have just enough explosive to ensure grave injury. Any more would be useless weight. Even if they rip off both legs to the knee, that a) is still highly survivable and b) does not make someone "useless and physically dependent on others". Wheelchairs are a thing. Sure, it is a great impairment to require a wheelchair, but today there are plenty of work opportunities and large parts of public life are relatively well accessible to wheelchair users. Sure, everyone has to decide for themselves what degree of disability they want to live with, but I'd say that the great majority of people would put a wheelchair within an acceptable range if opposed to death. And let me remind you again: That is assuming the most catastrophic damage to the leg. Oftentimes prosthetics will do the job. "Some fragments have to be LEFT inside of the mine's victim" Bullshit. Don't confuse damage control surgery and definitive surgery, which oftentimes encompasses a long sequence of surgery. The pain is mostly neuropathic. "Why don't you go step on one and come back to tell us about it in a few years." Just told you, if I have the choice of not stepping onto one entirely, I'll choose that. But in the choice between a full scale anti personnel mine which will kill or indeed disfigure me or one of these toe poppers that will just blow my foot off, I'll hop on the toe popper.
@@whynotjustmyusername >The pain is mostly neuropathic.< Wow, some serious arrogance. > toe poppers< Nevermind. This clearly tops it. Why don't you go to VA hospitals and VA bars, look at vets that had gone through them before, or watched their comrades lives ruined by them in the eye, and say that. Or better yet, tell that to disfigured children that were unfortunate to have stepped on them left in wars long since past? I'm sure they'd really appreciate that when not asked why they were there to begin with and left there. You're doing alot of serious mental gymnastics to defend these gross devices. Especially from someone that likely has never had to leave in an environment that has these things littered by them.
@@romankvapil9184 ">The pain is mostly neuropathic.< Wow, some serious arrogance." That's not arrogance. That's pain medicine basics which you clearly have no idea about. Neuropathic describes the pathomechanism of the pain, not its severity. I made no claim about the severity of the pain, I only said that your shrapnel story is nonsense. "> toe poppers< Nevermind. This clearly tops it. " I used the slang term of these mines for brevity's sake. How does that top anything? "Or better yet, tell that to disfigured children..." I didn't talk about children at all. "You're doing alot of serious mental gymnastics to defend these gross devices." I'm not defending them. I'm not defending *any* anti personnel mine. All I am saying that they are not abhorrently worse than any other anti personnel mine. You just twisted "[...]if I have the choice of not stepping onto one entirely, I'll choose that." into supposed support for a mine. Who's doing the mental gymnastics here?
Listen, got all those who think this is terrible, is much rather be alive with out a foot then dead. Feet are way over rated that's a lot of space you can add microchips, storage and module foot weapons. Just think no more athletes' foot
I don't believe for a second an armed M14 mine could be dropped from a plane and not go off when it hits the ground. So, I conclude you don't know what you're talking about. Channel blocked.
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We called this mine "PATE" in Bosnian war. My friend went to collect mushrooms 2000's~and he stepped on this mine. He died cause he couldn't get help since he went deep in mine field and he got out of blood. It's not problem if you step on mine, problem is that you need hours and hours to get help, cause none want to go into mine field.
sorry for your loss brother
Izvini Jaro. And after flooding he's right alot of mines in Bosnia changed locations. may God have mercy on us slavs as it seems we just can't fucking stop killing each other.it breaks my heart to see what's happening in Ukraine and once again in Bosnia. zivjela bosna
@@harishuskic7270 This has even been a problem at the Inner-German border. Even today old mines are occasionally found in brooks or swamps.
Don't go into minefields folks
@@samholdsworth420 Bosnia is full of them, I live in a city surrounded by hills and the opposing forces, aswell as our forces layed a lot of mines there during the war, it is a big safety hazard but people regularly go there to try and clean the area
Well made animation, I showed this to a Vietnam veteran who was a combat engineer that who has experience with these. He said there are a few things you missed: The Belleville spring (firing spring) is the only major bit of metal in the mine. The mine was never issued primed. The mine was issued with a arming wrench to turn the pressure plate. Also the safety clip was removed after arming not before, this was done so if the Belleville spring activated (because of damage or defects) while arming the safety clip would stop the pressure plate from going any further and stop it from going off in your hand. Truly a scary bit of ordnance.
Interesting animation , however with one flaw; the M14 mine is shurely not air delivered, as it is not suitable for that. They are burried one by one on the required place. The air delivered mines are the BLU 43B and BLU44B dragontooth and the BLU 42B
Yes, a better mine for air deployment would be the vs50
100%
They called it the "toe popper"
Like a bouncing Betty or a canister launching antipersonnel mine that blows up around the mid section or the neck area like the NVA and VC would rig upsidedown from Vines and undergrowth in the trackless section's of the Bush that when tripped they shot downward Into the columns of closely spaced pairs of infantry that would get it at that face and chest or back of the head and spinal column and sets off the other 20 spaced out in bricklayers pattern staggered just enough apart and in stair stepped line or from grid point to grid point to ensure maximum likely hood of successful contact
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We called them Toe Poppers. I have never heard of them being air delivered. They are primarily used as a hasty mine to block a trail when being pursued. They have a metal ring in the bottom to make them detectable for removal. This was a modification of the initial design.
the only airdropped one i know of in US arsenals was the gravel mine!
They’re confusing this with any of the FASCAM mines.
Did they use one in Vietnam called a" bat wing " it could be thrown out of a helicopter or was that just Hollywood ?
Never heard of them airborne either.....I remember being taught how "the enemy" might use them sideways with a wire and mre spoon trigger against and being told "don't ever do this,it's illegal but you need to know what the enemy does....wink wink"
@@alisonhilll4317 nope.....not even sure where you got that from Hollywood.
The primary aerial released anti-personnel miners what's known as a butterfly mine which comes from the Soviet backslash Russian arsenal and was banned.
Personnel mines dropped from helicopters is not something the US has done
Dad talked about small mines in Europe, WW2. If you only get injured, then it takes two more soldiers to haul you back to an aid station, that reduces the enemy by three. If he dies, they only lose one. It's not always the way you think. If you shoot and wound someone, it takes extra personnel to get him to the aid station.
It is why snipers are (well, were) trained to wound, a dying man will attract atleast two more
@@mftripz8445 The cost of war is high, even to those who survive it. Let's hope we can learn to live without them ever again. (Vietnam Vet)
Mines are military purpose but always end up with civilian tragedy.
harming civilians IS military purpose. Ask russia
@@spicydiarrhea5662 Civilian casualties are inevitable in war, simply the nature of conflict itself.
@@thatonerussiandictator5412 civilian casualties and genocide with mass graves are not the same
@@spicydiarrhea5662 Genocide is a rather big claim to make, but mass graves are commonplace in war as well. Why bother giving every dead enemy an individual grave, you have a war to fight. Let's not forget cases where Russian POWs were executed by Ukrainians. There are no heroes in war.
@@thatonerussiandictator5412 yes genocide is a big claim, but what else do you call collecting and lining large quantities of civilians in front of a big hole and then executing them?
I'm thr EOD team in Cambodia 🇰🇭
We got found a lot of UXO more than Thousands of them still under ground .
We always clear and destroy.
You're doing gods work. Be safe
May God protect you while you do good work
May almighty God watch over you in this dangerous work. Landmine contamination still effects millions today, but many in the west do not know because it’s so far from home..
God put the land mines there for a reason
when this was invented, the inventor should have been the tester
I always wonder what the people designing these things think about their creations, how do they cope with the guilt (if there is any)?
Truly a horrific weapon
awesome! civilians will have fun clearing them when war will be over!
Absolutely it's not a kill life's weapon, it's a destroy the foot's weapon.
It leaves the foot horribly mutilated, just like your English.
Beautiful cinematography. I do not regret suscribing the channel.
Great explanation. Keep it up
Great explaining!!!
Thank u!
the man who developed this weapon is a true devil.
This little thingy check a lot of boxes when it comes to forbidden weaponary by ... almost whatever codex, i guess.
these mines are considered illegal because the small plastic shrapnel cannot be seen on X-rays which makes them very hard to remove from the body
They aren’t illegal. They’re still in inventory in many nations.
Besides, the only illegal thing during a war is loosing it.
They are illegall under the Ottawa Treaty. But the biggest producers of mines have not signed this treaty, like Russia and the US.
Buddy, no country will give a shit. If a weapon is effective it will be used regardless. War is hell.
False. Non-metallic mines are banned due to being hard for EOD personel to detect after the war is over. It has nothing to do with surgery.
0:49 You are not pointing to the Belleville Spring; you are pointing to the empty space between the Belleville Spring and the Partition that caps the Main Charge. The Belleville Spring is the conical diaphragm that holds the Firing Pin assembly.
ai created this video. its still in its infant stage. that there are shitloads of wrong informations spred through this cheap vids, is not interesting anyone.
@@snakeplissken2148 AI did not "create" this video, humans did. It had an AI narrator, but that was the extent of AI's involvement in this video.
Did you honestly think someone went to an online AI-generative service, typed in a description, and AI did the rest? If so, you're relying too much on sensationalist television and Internet articles.
You don't have to go all the way back to Marvin Minsky to understand what AI can and can't do (he was Old School theory), but you DO at least have to do SOME reading on the practical capabilities of AI-generative services available to the public.
I think it was the game Dying Light where I heard a character talk about Rais, the main bad guy of the story. He described how evil Rais was and that he'd torture people, cut off their limbs or severely debilitate them so it takes 2 or 3 other people to take care of 1 person. These landmines can do the same.
Thanks for the tutorial, worked as instructed!
In which video game?
Super quality content
0:17
Me: steps off curb wrong and twists my ankle
Dr: Yeah I'm sorry, we're gonna have to amputate
Makes me think of the sweaty engineers who designed these
I was thinking the same, engineering student here. The day my future company would want me to design something like this, I'd quit. Engineers are supposed to make the world better.
There is an interesting Italian ap mine called sb-33.. Little whit basically no metal only glass and plastic whit irregular forms like a stone, plus they had the mercury anti handling devices... It's an hell of a mine... For civs, soldier and engineers.. There are tons around iraq/Kurdistan, Syria and Bosnia... Think they are banned
Apparently it was designed to be resistant to overpressure as well so mine-clearing charges didn't even work on it. Sounds like a scary piece of engineering.
@@scottcantdance804 not sound... It's a scary pice of war engineering..
>cheap and easy to build
> easy to scatter them around In huge quantities a fast
> extremely high chance that someone set one or more off
> extremely difficult to defuse whit huge probabilities of injury or dead of an expert EOD engineer.. Which I think is a huuuge loss of highly trained personnel whit long and high cost of training and in most army a pain to replace
When you hear of mines in Ukraine, you wonder how Mines are legal in war.. maybe they are a war crime idk.I always thought you had a few seconds if you stepped on one like the movies portray lol. I asked my uncle who served in Iraq and regional conflicts as a Para trooper with the 82nd Airborne, how long you have when you step on one. 0 Seconds. he told me how his buddy stepped on one that blew him up killing him, idk the size it was.
Land mines, in and of themselves, aren't a warcrime, but how you use them easily can be. It requires a combination of very careful record keeping and timed set destruct mechanisms to keep you within international law.
Plastic ones are as they can't be metal detected for clean up after the war
If you still think (feel) in terms of legality, consider that the UN and League of Nations made war of aggression illegal. Problem
Solved? Murder is illegal everywhere too.
A lethal mine = dead solider, move on. Cover the body with leaves...
A toe-popper = injured soldier in need of medical support...two-three men to care for one wounded.
Same reason hollow-point bullets are banned: instant lethality from an expanding bullet makes war 'too easy'...better to use bullets that cause life-threatening injury.
Wars have never been won by killing folks; they get lost by the Army that can't move when and where it wants to.
Correct on the mine, wrong on the hollow point. Hollow points were banned due to a view that they were unnessecerily wounding, and brutal, when a bullet wound from a non expanding bullet could some times hit you and take you out of the fight, but survive. The idea isnt to cause more logistics for the opinent, but to let more of the opponent survive the battle. Since we made the rule war has become much more lethal, making it seem silly.
hollow point also dosent work well in rifle rounds, and most modern armies uses body armor with lv3 or higher plates, which hollow point has no chance to penetrate.
nice video do more plz amazing channel
Nice.
“When these little mines tear you in two…”
Do a video on the laws on the use of land mines and the loop holes countries use to deploy them. I think it’s interesting it’s been banned and outlawed but everyone seems to have or use them any way.
En la guerra no hay ley, son sólo mentiras y trucos para acusar a los derrotados
Indeed most people still think when you step on a mine it doesn't explode until you move, but that is very wrong!!☠️💥
This got to be a war crime
It is.
WMD are nasty but landmines are nastyER.
The reason these are so good is because if someone like the squad leader gets his foot disabled your unit is basically barely gonna be effective
The mine is such a loathsome device. To think that people dreamed up these horrific mines that maim , mutilate and kill other humans. They must be evil.
My friend who was archeology student, Told me about method to destroy this mine in Laos and Thailand's Border. They use cattle to walk around mine field and when it explode villagers had a big meal. Sad It's only method that's worked.
You should explore the fact that is it a shape change that aims the majority of the energy around 8" above the base of the mine, creating a similar(though far less acute) penetration capability of an anti tank rocket, for example. This isn't a blunt force explosion, but a focused deep penetration that obliterates anything in that range with unstoppable force.
shotgun blast to the foot.
@@selurxelpirt yup, but 10x faster. A shotgun pushes 1200 fps while a detonation is around 21000-27000 fps depending on the filler.
I saw a toe popper. I haven't seen one of these things since BCT/AIT.
Love landmines
PeTA should plant these all over animal farms.
How mini UAV's work
Ottawa Treaty 👍
my husband told me he had nightmares of this landmine 30% of the casualties his unit in central Africa suffered was by these minds.
Sadly most anti-personnel mines are meant to maim, an injured soldier takes three from the battle but a kill takes only one.
How missile are launched from canister
Mines are flat out evil
Not an airdrop mine, all need to be deliberately planted. Firing is direct, the primer has a direct path to the explosive cap inside. You can modify them quite easily to make an IED for sabotage though. 🤔
🟦…a coupla mistakes were made here,... First of all this is NOT an "Air-Dropped" mine, these are placed individually in the field,... And secondly; The safety-clip is supposed to be the LAST thing removed AFTER THE MINE HAS BEEN BURIED!
.... If done the other way-around there's WAY too much of a chance of it go'n-off during installation.
Incredibly simply mechanism, just a spring to a firing pin to a detonator.
Considering it's made of plastic wouldn't that make it outlawed by the Geneva convention because you can't x-ray the remove the pieces or have things changed
Wow
It's called the "toe popper" and they are very effective...
mines that dont kill are far more effective
indeed, injuring the enemy will always be more effective as long as there are more than one of them.
Not true, mines that explode so violently that who stepped on it disappears instantly are far more effective, both in terms of damage and psychological impact, that's why they were used in most historical cases of long term minelaying on borders, one man walking onto a mine and disappearing instantly is usually enough to stop dozens of other men from trying to get through, a mine that only has enough power to maim a soldier is not an effective device, it's vulnerable to short range remote detonation, it's a war crime if left behind and it has much lower psychological impact, it is effective for small tactical uses, like cutting a trail behind you while undergoing a pursuit or similar situations, in a widespread fashion it's not a more effective device than high yield HE mines.
@@dannymoneywell if I was a soldier I'd much rather step on a mine that kills me instantly than one that leaves me maimed to either die of bloodloss or be crippled for life but if you want to go down the path thay it makes total sense because it was used historically then why are weapons constantly evolving? Shouldn't we be using swords and spears then because they've been used for weapons far longer than our modern weapons have?
The bouncing betty is the only landmine that explodes after the pressure is released. As far as i know.
I'm no military expert... but isn't it "great" if you only cripple enemy soldier's? The enemy army has more work load to recover an treat the soldier and at home it need's work too to help him to recover and you prevent him from doing some job's in future like making war machinery. So the soldier can't fight on and can't help at home to win the war
cool they dont seem so bad
1:11 when the mines were dropped from aircrafts, could they explode on impact? 🤔
Butterfly bombs?
What is the comparison of the mine to a hand grande?
How much explosive and what type of explosive in in it?
So not a movie mine.
less than a grenade I think, but still enough to take your foot off.
M14 mine is an ounce of TNT
M67 fragmentation grenade has ⅓ lb of Composition B
Most countries has banned anti-personell mines, but the USA and Russia, for example, haven't
Yeh. Amongst several other large military powers. The landmine treaty was quickly agreed by countries that don’t use them
Why do governments not ban these horrible things? These things will make future generations life on earth difficult. Innocent people and animals may step on these things not knowing about the dangers their past generations implanted and suffer horrendously while roaming around the woods.
You can ban it as much as you want. It will be produced underground.
plastic mines have been banned?
Excellent piece of kit .. Even though they're supposed to be banned!
Getting your foot blown off is not an internal injury.
Are there any type of mines
that can be triggered by a rat
Toe Popper type mine.
omg. You are the guy who does the narco channel, right?
You also have jumping mines. Those ones wait for you to remove your feet and they explode at ~1m from the ground, with a nice spray of metal beads... Looks for S-Mine on YT.
If I were a commander I'd prefer the enemy to survive but out of the fight cause that way injured soldiers will continue to hinder the supplies of the enemy. It might sound sadistic to other people but it's effective for strategic use.
That is true.
Furthermore, an injured enemy effectively remove 2-3 other enemies from the battle to help the injured
They need to have a time clock designed to detonate after a set period.
Good point. The greatest horror of mines is post-battle remainders, even more than the threat during battle. If there are degrees of harshness, then at least know that US for many years has put self-destruct timers on their land mines.
Are anti-personnel landmines not supposed to be banned ? 🙃
So what . Sue the ones using them ??
There is an international treaty where countries have signed up to no longer use them. But few countries, including the US, have not signed up for it due to a number of geopolitical and strategic reasons behind it. Not that I am agreeing to their reasons. But it is what it is.
@@rewrite1239 Until 2010. Then the production and implementation of APLs would be no longer permitted to continue. Only anti- vehicle landmines with a non-persistent function would be permitted to be produced and used.
If this was supposed to have me try to defend it, you're mistaken. APL's were one of the worst things humanity came up with for warfare and I still have issue with the continuance of anti-vehicle landmines even with the inclusion of the function.
@@rewrite1239 >What's your point? The US wasn't the one who invented the APL, and it certainly isn't the largest deployer of them.<
If you read my post, I don't care who invented it. It's still an awful weapon. This is like saying athlete's foot is less bad than cancer. Okay. And? Both are still bad. We're getting far better than before. How about we don't use them at all?
>All of our cluster mines that we use have timers on them for self detonation. It has been this way since at least the 1960s.<
I'd like a source on that one. Because studies conducted by the UN showed that most of them used, never detonated. What is the point to this bit, here?
>Mines in general are a fact of warfare and very few besides the US are willing to limit their use to be as minimal as possible except for those countries who piggyback off of the success and protection of the Americans.<
I don't give a shit about how much we use mines. It's still wrong and has a negative impact on everyone in the area. I understand the use of it for sure, but doesn't mean I have to like or agree with it. I'd love to know the good it has had to the civilian population of Laos and Vietnam. Just because we have been alot better with it, doesn't mean it makes it okay.
This is the same kind of logic that could be argued about the use of mustard gas, nukes, agent orange, fucking napalm and anthrax.
Just because it can, doesn't mean it should. These kind of weapons are mostly banned for the specific reason: because this is a weapon that we ultimately have no control over, and doesn't discriminate. And even with these new functions, don't guarantee they'll work either let alone prevent any civilian casualties.
These were also called toe poppers.
Mines are evil 😤
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It takes more to take care of an injured person then it does of a dead one.
... land mines are literally designed to injure not kill. That's a good mine design not terrible
if you were to airdrop it it would break.
10 wounded solder is worth more then 10 dead
If they was armed and air dropped wouldn't they blow up on impact most of the time?... anyhewzerwhutelwitch......
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criminal invention
War is hell!
@@FranktheDachshund there are rules, even for war, and mayhem devices don't fit with them, the uses of weapons that cause extreme non lethal damage are crimes of war, like many other cruel tactics.
That sucks.
aka Toe Popper
What an evil and diabolical weapon this is. Unlike most mines, this one is not meant to kill the person. It's designed to maim it's targets indiscriminately.
How does that make it diabolical? It's designed to injure and not kill. The idea behind this is that an injured soldier will receive care and bind more enemy personnel. But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. I'd much rather have my enemy use these mines against me than blow me up with half a ton of fertilizer. Yeah, it'll hurt, it'll suck, but nowadays it's relatively easy to survive. Slap a tourniquet around that leg and try to get to an OR soon and your chances of survival are above 90%.
And the indiscriminate part is absolutely not special about this design. The great majority of land mines are victim operated and cannot distinguish between combatant and noncombatant. There are some antitank mines that will listen to the sounds in their environment and feel for vibrations in the ground to tell apart a car from a tank, but I'm not aware of them being used in combat so far.
@@whynotjustmyusername Not injure, maim. The typical mine is generally designed to outright kill a person. Not disfigure unsuspecting human beings. But these sort of mines, generally do not do that, there are two types of mines for anti-personal, lethal, and the kind that will disfigure you.
Being maimed to the point of being useless and physically dependent on others for the rest of one's life is one of the worst things to happen to them let alone causing more than just physical trauma. Some fragments have to be LEFT inside of the mine's victim, that can cause on going pain for years. For some, death is a far better option than a lifetime of agony these things leave behind.
>But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. >
Yeah, not how mines generally work. You'd be lucky if that's all that happens to you if that happens.
Why don't you go step on one and come back to tell us about it in a few years.
@@romankvapil9184 Maim and injure are essentially the same thing. Sure, "maim" refers more to the long term effects, but the mechanism is identical, so for the purposes of this discussion, they are identical.
">But really, I'd rather lose a foot than die. >
Yeah, not how mines generally work."
We aren't talking about mines generally, we are talking about this specific type and that is exactly how these mines work. They have just enough explosive to ensure grave injury. Any more would be useless weight. Even if they rip off both legs to the knee, that a) is still highly survivable and b) does not make someone "useless and physically dependent on others". Wheelchairs are a thing. Sure, it is a great impairment to require a wheelchair, but today there are plenty of work opportunities and large parts of public life are relatively well accessible to wheelchair users. Sure, everyone has to decide for themselves what degree of disability they want to live with, but I'd say that the great majority of people would put a wheelchair within an acceptable range if opposed to death. And let me remind you again: That is assuming the most catastrophic damage to the leg. Oftentimes prosthetics will do the job.
"Some fragments have to be LEFT inside of the mine's victim"
Bullshit. Don't confuse damage control surgery and definitive surgery, which oftentimes encompasses a long sequence of surgery. The pain is mostly neuropathic.
"Why don't you go step on one and come back to tell us about it in a few years."
Just told you, if I have the choice of not stepping onto one entirely, I'll choose that. But in the choice between a full scale anti personnel mine which will kill or indeed disfigure me or one of these toe poppers that will just blow my foot off, I'll hop on the toe popper.
@@whynotjustmyusername >The pain is mostly neuropathic.<
Wow, some serious arrogance.
> toe poppers<
Nevermind. This clearly tops it.
Why don't you go to VA hospitals and VA bars, look at vets that had gone through them before, or watched their comrades lives ruined by them in the eye, and say that. Or better yet, tell that to disfigured children that were unfortunate to have stepped on them left in wars long since past? I'm sure they'd really appreciate that when not asked why they were there to begin with and left there.
You're doing alot of serious mental gymnastics to defend these gross devices. Especially from someone that likely has never had to leave in an environment that has these things littered by them.
@@romankvapil9184 ">The pain is mostly neuropathic.<
Wow, some serious arrogance."
That's not arrogance. That's pain medicine basics which you clearly have no idea about. Neuropathic describes the pathomechanism of the pain, not its severity. I made no claim about the severity of the pain, I only said that your shrapnel story is nonsense.
"> toe poppers<
Nevermind. This clearly tops it. "
I used the slang term of these mines for brevity's sake. How does that top anything?
"Or better yet, tell that to disfigured children..." I didn't talk about children at all.
"You're doing alot of serious mental gymnastics to defend these gross devices."
I'm not defending them. I'm not defending *any* anti personnel mine. All I am saying that they are not abhorrently worse than any other anti personnel mine.
You just twisted "[...]if I have the choice of not stepping onto one entirely, I'll choose that." into supposed support for a mine.
Who's doing the mental gymnastics here?
Cruel indiscriminate devices.should be on that list I forget the name for weapons that are like this one.
Line the southern border with em and no need for a wall
"Terrible" landmine, haha
Nasty things
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If every American bought just one to bury on our southern border, that would solve A LOT of problems.
Lol that's not very Zen of you
So you prefer immigrants to fly in by plane
those are toe poppers not ankle mines! first i've heard of plane deployment for them the ones i know of that were airdropped are gravel mines!!
Internal injuries? Internal doesn't mean what you think it means. A dictionary might help.
Horrible things.
Toe Popper
Toe poppers
gernadge rounds that are buried too unusual they cause doubt not good for Ukraine.
Thanks from Russia 😅
Listen, got all those who think this is terrible, is much rather be alive with out a foot then dead. Feet are way over rated that's a lot of space you can add microchips, storage and module foot weapons. Just think no more athletes' foot
I don't believe for a second an armed M14 mine could be dropped from a plane and not go off when it hits the ground. So, I conclude you don't know what you're talking about. Channel blocked.
These weapons are only used by cowards of the worst kind