Another fun fact, the two teller mines shown in this video are not original German mines, they are original WWII US made trainers. Close in appearance to the German mines but actually quite different in details. I believe they were made by a toy company in Chicago. They had a set of fuses that could be armed with toy caps so if you messed up in training you would hear the bang.
lol, i don't mind if it's in a more goofy film like that Kingsman example. It gets an eyeroll from me if they're trying to play it all seriously though.
Land Of Mine / Under the Sand is an incredible - if deeply disturbing - movie about a group of young German POWs forced to clear mines from a Danish beach, and their relationship with the Danish officer in charge of them. Well worth seeing.
I actually randomly saw that on a medium length flight. After watching for about 20 minutes l was a little stunned by the realisation that I was experiencing the one single solitary time in my life that I was actually concerned that the plane perhaps might land a little too quickly.
Scharf can mean loads of things like sharp, hot as in spicy not hot like warm, hot as in sexy, in Fokus like in a photo and other things, and other things.
When it comes to weapons „scharf“ always means live. „Scharfe Munition“ means live ammunition. Defusing a bomb in Germany is called „(eine) Bombe entschärfen“. The „ent-“ meaning de(fusing) and „schärfen“ comes from „scharf“. It is the proper term in professional weapons and ammunition language. As you already guessed, I am german and am somewhat knowledgeable about those topics, thats why I know those terms in german and english.
@@rolux4853 Thanks. I´m Danish but speak German, but not natively of course, so it´s nice to have a native German speaker to corroborate and elaborate on my statement.
Sorry, but that doesn´t make sense. What is a "spicy" mine or any other weapon? "Scharf" means "ready for action" and that the mine can´t no longer be handled without defusing it first. "Sicher" is the opposite and means "safe to handle".There is no reference to the kitchen or food at all.
In Denmark, we have an area on our west coast that was mined in the early 1940s. Skallingen near Esbjerg. It was cleared of mines during 2011. Some of the wooden mines that were dug up were quite well preserved. The label of stamp paper was intact and you could read that it was a wooden mine with 2 times 500 grams of pictic acid.
the Tellermine could also accept a standard grenade fuse so it could be tossed onto a tank and dislodge the turret or break open the engine hatches. They also used to stack mines to blow up passing tanks.
...my father was a combat engineer with the 313th Combat Engineers of the 88th Blue Devil division during WW2......he was in combat in Italy for almost a year from late 44 till the end of the war....he told me the Germans came up with a new mine that had caused several fatalities within the sappers.....finally the order came down not to lift them but to simply blow them in place.....my father was a very sharp guy ( made Master Sergeant) and successively defused this new mine.......a Lieutenant quickly confiscated the defused mine and ran to head quarters with it
Great video. Thanks for making the point about the ‘Hollywood Mine’. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been questioned on this by people who insist they’ll survive if they keep their foot on an AP mine. I agree that the myth probably first started with the S-mine, but it’s also been clouded by the Soviet MS-3 anti-handling device. One thing: I’m pretty sure that there’s not 4kg of explosive in an S-mine. I suggest that that’s probably the total weight.
@@Michael-bn2nl TM62 is an anti-tank mine. It needs to be that size. I’ve handled a number of bounding fragmentation mines in my time and there’s simply not the space to fit 4kg of explosive inside
The newer 'spicy leaf' mines as I've dubbed them truly are one of the most insidious mine designs to exist thus far... if I'm not mistaken, they are generally enough to remove part of a foot or multipe toes, and are of plastic construction and colored like foilage. I believe they can be deployed en masse by air via canister and even through specialized artillery shells.
Russia has dropped many of these in Ukraine, specifically in civilian areas, because the attractive plastic shape tends to prompt children to pick them up. It's yet another insidious aspect of this genocidal war that they started.
A few years ago, at an estate sale I bought a display of WWII German mine fuzes put together by an Army veteran. His label indicated that the T.Mi. Z 43 was "a deadly bitch." I often wonder how many allied soldiers died before they figured out what that fuze was all about.
The Hollywood myth about needing to step off a mine in order for it to detonate may also have been influenced by pin-and-lever grenades needing to let go of the lever for it to detonate. The two explosive regimes may have gotten conflated, neh?
To be fair there are mines that require a “stepping off” but these were primarily anti-handling type mines meaning they were put under the primary mine and meant to go off if any enemy sapper tried to remove the primary mine. They are just less common.
Presumably it's not unheard of for actual grenades to be repurposed as mines every now and then, though I would be surprised if that had any part in originating the myth
@@ES1976-3 Yes, the Germans also had such a wooden box. There was a spring inside that pushed the lid up. If the lid lifted, it activated the fuse. In the beginning, the lid was attached to the box with wire. You had to put something heavy on the box and remove the wire. From that point on, removing the weight from the mine caused the explosion.
I spoke with my neighbor who was a WW2 vet..he died in 2015 at 94. He was in engineering and intelligence gathering that went into just behind front line areas supposedly just "taken" by the allies to access the situation..so he actually had a camera and took tons of photos. Anyway...he sometimes ran into german patrols and booby traps and got strafed by 109's etc..but the thing he feared the most were the german glassmines.
WOAH! I have been on the base at shiloh many times (and sadly only once at that museum) they have a really nice M7 Priest as well on display great vid as always! (surprised to see you landed in my home province though!)
Lots of information to take in there - but a bit too quickly for me. Watched it again at 0.75 speed - brilliant! Saw some of these "in the flesh" last week in the museums along the Normandy coast, it's incredible just how much materiel has survived.
@@SeanBZA O.K. I might have been a bit unclear: there are lot's of incidences with unexploded bombs here in Germany, but most of them are aircraft bombs and some artillery shells. I haven't heard about landmines being a continuing issue here. So my question was in particular about landmines.
I don't think there's any reason you need to be embarrassed about _struggling_ to consistently pronounce the word mine. I've known lots of people in everyday life who have difficulty with with this kind of mine kampf.
My late father introduced me to a man many years ago, Syd Scroggie….. he was born in Canada and emigrated to Scotland as a baby. Syd served as an officer in ww2 where he unfortunately encountered a schu mine, losing a leg and blinded in both eyes. You might like to read about him, he was a local living legend ……👍
Outstanding video! Only one comment; I'm an old guy (78) with poor eyesight so I use the captions with all these videos. This one, however, has dark gray text on a black background and is a VERY hard reader. Next time, please use the white text on black. Otherwise, great video!!
You control that yourself. Click the gear icon, select Subtitles/CC and in the popup box is an Options tab. That contains all the selections for fonts, colors, sizes, and opacities.
I was hoping you'd feature the Canadian C3 or Elsie mine. A rather nasty anti personal mine which had a shaped charge!! Stand on it, and get a jet of molten metal shooting though your body. Ooft!!
Our old technical drawing teacher used to tell us if this ex army chap who bought in a WW2 anti-tank mine which he would stand on to demonstrate how a soldier wouldn't trip it. Apparently one day he jumped on it a little too hard. 😮
that actually did happen in Canada in the 60's - the instructor was demonstrating that you can stand on an antitank mine and not set it off. The problem was the instructor used the same mine over and over - and with time, metal fatigue.... well... you can guess what happened...
19:50 you start talking about the "step off the mine myth" but you are incorrect when you said that no mines are designed like that. There are a lot of mines designed like that, the mechanism of operation we're talking about is called "pressure release" and you had even mentioned them numerous times throughout the video. Many anti-handling devices that you also talked about in this video are pressure release mechanisms as well that will set off the landmine. The Soviet MS3 is a good example of this type of mine. Also, the S-Mine, the very same mine you're talking about when you brought up the myth, could be set up on a tension release tripwire, which in effect uses the same method of operation to set it off. P.S. Monuments Men technically isn't really incorrect since the mine in that movie fails to function, so the actors/soldiers are correct to not disturb it any further than they have to once they become aware of it.
Lovely video, really enjoyed it, thank you! Just one thing, you have a similar problem with German pronounciation as Ian from Forgotten Weapons. There are no silent-e's in German at the end of Words. It's not "Min", it's "Mine", the last letter is pronounced as well! In french you often leave out the e I think. Ian does the same thing with "Pistol" instead of "Pistole". As a German native speaker that irks me a bit, sorry :D
It equally annoys me when the "e" is pronounced as "a" by English speakers. "Porscha" or "pistola" instead of Porsche and pistole, but it's easily forgiven. I often pronounce English words wrong, stressing the wrong syllable und so weiter.
@@spajdudeThe thing is that there is little consistency in the English language, due to it borrowing its vocabulary from multiple languages that have conflicting rules about spelling and pronunciation. So native English speakers are always guessing when they see a new word or name. And people with different dialects and accents will often arrive at different conclusions. For example, most Americans would pronounce Worcester as something like "War-csest-er", but people from New England or the United Kingdom know that it's "Wüs-ter".
@@safetysandals That is definitely true, and why learning how to pronounce seldom used English words correctly can be difficult if you're reading a text, even if you're a native English speaker.
I love how these videos make German mines out to be the only enemy we have ever faced when it comes to these horrible devices. In fact, western mines are the most distributed mines all across the world. Ask Vietnam, ask Cambodia, ask China, ask anyone where the West has been and you will find mines. PF-1 ring a bell?
According to Wikipedia, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China are the largest manufacturers of landmines today. During the Gulf War, the U.S. laid 118,000 mines. In contrast, Germany in WW2 laid tens of millions of mines (500,000 just in preparation for one battle: the Battle of El Alamein). There's plenty of blame to go around today: India, Pakistan, Myanmar, China, Russia, Iran and Vietnam are producing and stockpiling mines right now.
That's the maximum measurable distance where fragments have enough velocity to kill you, in absolute ideal conditions. It's most likely taken from a direct manual, and all the allied and axis powers would flub numbers to make their stuff seem better. The vast majority of the pellets will hit the ground, or someone, before traveling that far. The model escapes me, but there a modern hand grenade with a claimed blast radius of 20 meters, but the actual assured kill radius is 5 or less.
@@Nderak It's not necessarily off, in the literal sense that a fragment might kill you at that distance if you were unlucky enough to be hit--but there are only so many fragments and in these models they aren't pre-formed for optimal size distribution, nor aimed particularly well
18:38 no it doesnt have 4kg of TNT, the entire thing weighs 4kg, explosive charge is 190g, also the lethal radius is not 150m, it is 25m, read wikipedia carefully next time :P
during ww1 my maternal grandfather, 2nd London regt ambulance driver, had several of his fellow ambulance driver mates killed picking up boobytrapped "souvineers" the germans were placing their potato masher hand grenades with the pull cord tied to an object, on top of a wooden keg of explosives... when my grandfather came across a German Picklehaub helmet sitting in the middle of a road. he was wary, and from a safe distance would throw rocks at it... after som time he finaly knocke it over, and saw it was not rigged to anything. and when he got back late to the depot, his captain was furious, and ordered him to undergo Filed Punishment No. 1. Tied to the whells for a cart for several hours. Grandpop kept the spike of the helmet, and soldered it to the radiator cap of ever car he drove. still have it as a family heirloom.
Incidents in the Netherlands: July 18, 1983 An AP-23 mine explodes in a classroom at the military base near Oldebroek. This accident kills seven soldiers and injures nine. Based on the investigation report by the Royal Military Police, the Minister of Defense concludes that the accident was caused by the confusion of an instructional mine with a live mine. This confusion is due to a series of human errors made over a period of nine years. The mine is blocked. This means that the mine could only be used with explicit permission. The other measures that are subsequently taken are mainly aimed at preventing the confusion of live ammunition with instructional ammunition. No technical investigation has been carried out into the mine. September 14, 1984 During a periodic investigation at the Artillery Shooting Camp in Oldebroek, a mine that has been set off remotely does not explode. When the test leader walks towards the mine, this still happens. The test leader is killed instantly. The AP-23 mine is blocked again.
@@herosstratos My cousin's husband was a kid in WWII. They fled when the Russians approached and he ended up running over a land mine. It was probably a teller mine set for anti-vehicle.
I am new to this channel, but I know you from somewhere else, you grew a beard, and I didn't recognize you except by your voice LOL, or am I confusing you with a doppler-ganger here on another You Tube Channel? I think the Glassmine-43 was the deadliest to infantry due its difficulty in detection. Yes, the S-Mine was the most feared because it would blow up at genital height but could be detected by mine detectors. I think the shoe mine would have been the other most feared mine due to the fact that no soldier wants to return home a cripple missing a foot or lower leg limb, Most other German mines would just end in death. I can't speak for how well any allied tanks faired against German ATM', so I won't suppose which was the most effective of them all. I am surprised that you did not cover the magnetic ATM's, but maybe you will in another episode. Great stuff covered here and getting to see real examples of them is always helpful to geta better understand to the size of them is eye-opening, so thank you to the museum for helping. I have seen drone footage many times now of Ukrainian's deploying Soviet Era TM-62 mines via big sized drones directly on top of Russian bunker positions and landing either upright or not, they still detonate about 10-15 seconds later. How they do this I have no idea, but 16 1/2 lbs. of TNT going off right over your location is not a recoverable situation 👍👍💙💛
after development of gunpowder by the Chinese (which was not originally for warfare) the Chinese themselves developed land mines derived from clay pots, gunpowder and a pressure plate style piece connected to a spark striker...
I remember my service as a sapper almost 40 years ago. We also had instructions about the jumping mines. They told us not to tighten the tripwires too tightly, otherwise the mines would fly in the face of whoever had to arm them. And the best thing was, the mines had to arm those who had no family. So, no wife and children. Because the mine could still explode. A really ugly thing this mine.
Hey, do you know that during the video you switch between English and German pronunciations of “mine”? (KIDDING! Saw the comment at the beginning, started writing this comment during the ads. I hope the comment , regardless of content, boosts your search and channel just that little bit more! I already know while the video is playing it’s gonna be great!)
Saw that Movie and it is a must See. It will give everybody a lot to think about the Millions of Mine still buried around the World and the Man and Woman that do the Job of Disarming.
@0:02m, had to pause to read. 🤔Now, having watched to the end..bouncing between languages is tricky.🙄.no apologies necessary.👍🙏🙏🙏😸 you and Simon Whistler should do a collaboration.... ?
19:40 As I heard, the Germans also willingly used an electric igniter. If the enemy did not step on the mine, it could be detonated remotely and the wide spread of metal balls also gave a chance to eliminate the enemy. Another interesting fact is the German "surprise mines" left in abandoned areas. Some of them had a timer that worked with a delay of up to a month! Others had an electric igniter connected to the local electrical grid. When the enemy occupied the area and repaired the destroyed power plants, the buildings exploded. One of the strangest German ideas was a mine in the form of a concrete explosive ball. As far as I understand, it could be rolled (e.g. from a hill) onto an opponent below. So actually it's not a mine, but a type of ammunition. I don't know if this has been used successfully anywhere. However, I saw this ball in another brochure with the comment that it was placed in trees and detonated remotely. The radioactive sand case is amazing! I thought I knew something, but it turned out how much I still didn't know.
I recall the “Honeywell Project” which dealt with cluster bombs made in Minneapolis, Minnesota by a corporation now , as then, mostly known for manufacturing household thermostats and such… Land mines are also indiscriminate and beyond cruel!!
He said 150 meters, but this isn't accurate. In reality, the deadly radius is about 20 meters and the injury radius 100 meters. However, as with all shrapnel, there's an aspect of randomness to this; I've seen it myself in footage from the war against Ukraine. Someone can survive seemingly unscathed (minus permanent hearing damage) a few meters next to the explosion, whereas someone else hundreds of meters away gets killed by a random piece of hot metal. That said, the design of this mine in particular, with it jumping up before detonating, reduces the odds for people in the vicinity quite dramatically, since it virtually eliminates the chance of small terrain elevations catching shrapnel before it reaches them.
Did all the countries keep records on how many of these mines were buried ? Makes me wonder how many of these are still active. Very informative, thank you
Some kept records, but even those are incomplete. At best, they could know how many mines were sent out. Some countries issued mines to soldiers the way they would issue grenades. "Carry these heavy devices in your pack until they are needed." Mines aren't something you use in combat, so such soldiers predictably found opportunities to dispose of these mines by secretly hiding them one here and another there.
Jumpin' Jack was Jack Dyer, the gardener of Keith Richards cottage Redlands, of the Chichester Harbour village of West Wittering. The Stones seems to have a knack for very old, thatched, but fancy estates.... But i guess a thatched building i a climate like that, you do need a gardener / building manager or stuff will quickly go moldy... And those roofs, what an excellent place to hide your weeds..
I really want to know how you qualify to be a presenter that handles artifacts in a museum. Inert or not, there are few places that will just let people pick-up ordinance like that.
great video, PS: your German pronunciations are GREAT, Not inconsistencies, but good additions, you are obviously quoting from the original literature, and how history recorded it, and using 'Propper' English when constructing the contextual paragraphs, giving us background, so also correct, as at that time, you are third person, looking at it, or a "Narrator" of this story, interconnecting fact and historical timeline.
His German pronunciation is great to you? You must not speak German then. Not to denigrate his commendable attempt to pronounce a foreign language correctly, but the only time he pronounced "mine" correctly was when using the plural form (minen). The German word "mine" is pronounced "meen-uh"
Another fun fact, the two teller mines shown in this video are not original German mines, they are original WWII US made trainers. Close in appearance to the German mines but actually quite different in details. I believe they were made by a toy company in Chicago. They had a set of fuses that could be armed with toy caps so if you messed up in training you would hear the bang.
Best use of a cap gun ever.
Taking cap gun fights to another level
Maybe one day a filmmaker will read the manual of a device that stars in their film. Great video!
That is asking alot, lol,they didn't do that with hand grenades
lol, i don't mind if it's in a more goofy film like that Kingsman example. It gets an eyeroll from me if they're trying to play it all seriously though.
Never let reality get in the way of a good story!
Land Of Mine / Under the Sand is an incredible - if deeply disturbing - movie about a group of young German POWs forced to clear mines from a Danish beach, and their relationship with the Danish officer in charge of them. Well worth seeing.
I actually randomly saw that on a medium length flight. After watching for about 20 minutes l was a little stunned by the realisation that I was experiencing the one single solitary time in my life that I was actually concerned that the plane perhaps might land a little too quickly.
This is based on a true story as well. Very young pows, children, many who did not make it.
Scharf also means "Spicy", that's even better than "hot". So the settings are "sure" and "spicy".
Scharf can mean loads of things like sharp, hot as in spicy not hot like warm, hot as in sexy, in Fokus like in a photo and other things, and other things.
The correct translation in this case would be "live"
When it comes to weapons „scharf“ always means live.
„Scharfe Munition“ means live ammunition.
Defusing a bomb in Germany is called „(eine) Bombe entschärfen“.
The „ent-“ meaning de(fusing) and „schärfen“ comes from „scharf“.
It is the proper term in professional weapons and ammunition language.
As you already guessed, I am german and am somewhat knowledgeable about those topics, thats why I know those terms in german and english.
@@rolux4853 Thanks. I´m Danish but speak German, but not natively of course, so it´s nice to have a native German speaker to corroborate and elaborate on my statement.
Sorry, but that doesn´t make sense. What is a "spicy" mine or any other weapon? "Scharf" means "ready for action" and that the mine can´t no longer be handled without defusing it first. "Sicher" is the opposite and means "safe to handle".There is no reference to the kitchen or food at all.
In Denmark, we have an area on our west coast that was mined in the early 1940s. Skallingen near Esbjerg. It was cleared of mines during 2011. Some of the wooden mines that were dug up were quite well preserved. The label of stamp paper was intact and you could read that it was a wooden mine with 2 times 500 grams of pictic acid.
the Tellermine could also accept a standard grenade fuse so it could be tossed onto a tank and dislodge the turret or break open the engine hatches. They also used to stack mines to blow up passing tanks.
...my father was a combat engineer with the 313th Combat Engineers of the 88th Blue Devil division during WW2......he was in combat in Italy for almost a year from late 44 till the end of the war....he told me the Germans came up with a new mine that had caused several fatalities within the sappers.....finally the order came down not to lift them but to simply blow them in place.....my father was a very sharp guy ( made Master Sergeant) and successively defused this new mine.......a Lieutenant quickly confiscated the defused mine and ran to head quarters with it
"rather resembling a curling stone". What a very Canadian sentence.
What else?
I don't know....is curling just a Canadian thing? I'm Canadian and know nothing about it.
This is the second video I'm watching from this guy
I have even more respect now for the sappers trying to disarm these nightmares.
Great video. Thanks for making the point about the ‘Hollywood Mine’. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been questioned on this by people who insist they’ll survive if they keep their foot on an AP mine.
I agree that the myth probably first started with the S-mine, but it’s also been clouded by the Soviet MS-3 anti-handling device.
One thing: I’m pretty sure that there’s not 4kg of explosive in an S-mine. I suggest that that’s probably the total weight.
4kg is a realistic main charge wait considering the Russian tm62 antitank mine weighs 7.5kg
@@Michael-bn2nl TM62 is an anti-tank mine. It needs to be that size. I’ve handled a number of bounding fragmentation mines in my time and there’s simply not the space to fit 4kg of explosive inside
"This is a Panzerschreck, it schrecks the Panzer"
Shreklich is horrible. Like the ogre Shrek.
The newer 'spicy leaf' mines as I've dubbed them truly are one of the most insidious mine designs to exist thus far... if I'm not mistaken, they are generally enough to remove part of a foot or multipe toes, and are of plastic construction and colored like foilage. I believe they can be deployed en masse by air via canister and even through specialized artillery shells.
Russia has dropped many of these in Ukraine, specifically in civilian areas, because the attractive plastic shape tends to prompt children to pick them up. It's yet another insidious aspect of this genocidal war that they started.
The Ukrainians call them "toe poppers", iirc.
Newer? They've been around for almost 60 years.
@@jadger1871 as opposed to over 100?
@@jadger1871 In relation to WW2, you goof.
A few years ago, at an estate sale I bought a display of WWII German mine fuzes put together by an Army veteran. His label indicated that the T.Mi. Z 43 was "a deadly bitch." I often wonder how many allied soldiers died before they figured out what that fuze was all about.
I don’t know if you’ve looked at one yet, but a butterfly mine could be a good video idea
Great video as per usual! That glass mine was pretty surprising to see.
The Hollywood myth about needing to step off a mine in order for it to detonate may also have been influenced by pin-and-lever grenades needing to let go of the lever for it to detonate. The two explosive regimes may have gotten conflated, neh?
To be fair there are mines that require a “stepping off” but these were primarily anti-handling type mines meaning they were put under the primary mine and meant to go off if any enemy sapper tried to remove the primary mine. They are just less common.
Presumably it's not unheard of for actual grenades to be repurposed as mines every now and then, though I would be surprised if that had any part in originating the myth
@@ES1976-3 Yes, the Germans also had such a wooden box. There was a spring inside that pushed the lid up. If the lid lifted, it activated the fuse. In the beginning, the lid was attached to the box with wire. You had to put something heavy on the box and remove the wire. From that point on, removing the weight from the mine caused the explosion.
I just subscribed and I'm totally about this kind of stuff and I come to the comments and I have been greatly rewarded. I'm all about it
Another great video.
This has to be my favorite channel.
Excellent content as always. Interesting topic and concise presentation
A copy of the Smine was used for a long time in Sweden, as Antipersonal mine 11.
Wow, that's the first I'd heard of the radio-active sand detection method - great info. Subscribed ( also just watched your ERFB video )
Good stuff. Really liked this one.
I like how this has the same feel as forgotten weapons.
Just found this channel. I am SO subscribed. Hello what I'm doing after a long day of work and back home on a Saturday night ❤
Great quality video with excellent level of detail, I'm always impressed with your videos
I learned a few things, as usual. Cheers.
Thumbs up,great video,there is probably lot's of them still out there
I spoke with my neighbor who was a WW2 vet..he died in 2015 at 94.
He was in engineering and intelligence gathering that went into just behind front line areas supposedly just "taken" by the allies to access the situation..so he actually had a camera and took tons of photos. Anyway...he sometimes ran into german patrols and booby traps and got strafed by 109's etc..but the thing he feared the most were the german glassmines.
WOAH! I have been on the base at shiloh many times (and sadly only once at that museum)
they have a really nice M7 Priest as well on display
great vid as always! (surprised to see you landed in my home province though!)
Lots of information to take in there - but a bit too quickly for me. Watched it again at 0.75 speed - brilliant! Saw some of these "in the flesh" last week in the museums along the Normandy coast, it's incredible just how much materiel has survived.
Great video, Gilles...👍
Some of those old mines are still hidden, and still active, killing even today.
Do you know where? I haven't heard of any such incidents around here in western Germany.
@@ahoannon5711 France for sure.10 tons per year though a lot is shells
@@SeanBZA O.K. I might have been a bit unclear: there are lot's of incidences with unexploded bombs here in Germany, but most of them are aircraft bombs and some artillery shells. I haven't heard about landmines being a continuing issue here.
So my question was in particular about landmines.
@@ahoannon5711vogelsang in der Eifel hat glasminen
@@the_retag Ah, danke. Ich hatte davon noch nicht gehoert.
"Like" in advance, because it's definitely good material. And I'll listen to it tomorrow in my free time.
Amazing video as usual!
I was always curious how these little bastards worked👍 fascinating stuff
I don't think there's any reason you need to be embarrassed about _struggling_ to consistently pronounce the word mine.
I've known lots of people in everyday life who have difficulty with with this kind of mine kampf.
"Minenkampf" actually refers in many cases to tunnel-warfare (during WWI).
Angry upvote.
Danke sehr, das Thema ist sonst nicht so... mein Feld. :p
YES - Fascinating -THANKS!
😎👍
Excellent video.
My late father introduced me to a man many years ago, Syd Scroggie….. he was born in Canada and emigrated to Scotland as a baby. Syd served as an officer in ww2 where he unfortunately encountered a schu mine, losing a leg and blinded in both eyes. You might like to read about him, he was a local living legend ……👍
great video thanks ❤
Outstanding video! Only one comment; I'm an old guy (78) with poor eyesight so I use the captions with all these videos. This one, however, has dark gray text on a black background and is a VERY hard reader. Next time, please use the white text on black. Otherwise, great video!!
You control that yourself. Click the gear icon, select Subtitles/CC and in the popup box is an Options tab. That contains all the selections for fonts, colors, sizes, and opacities.
@0:15 Columbo before he joined the LAPD
Great video!
I was hoping you'd feature the Canadian C3 or Elsie mine. A rather nasty anti personal mine which had a shaped charge!! Stand on it, and get a jet of molten metal shooting though your body. Ooft!!
Are you purposely talking about things I can't buy on Ebay? LOL, I am kidding, great video!
I just want a movie where a soldier lays on a mine, then has to keep it hugged to his chest the entire movie to keep it from going off.
There is one like that almost called mine lol
"MINE!"
"No! Not yours! Why would you even want this!?"
Our old technical drawing teacher used to tell us if this ex army chap who bought in a WW2 anti-tank mine which he would stand on to demonstrate how a soldier wouldn't trip it. Apparently one day he jumped on it a little too hard. 😮
that actually did happen in Canada in the 60's - the instructor was demonstrating that you can stand on an antitank mine and not set it off. The problem was the instructor used the same mine over and over - and with time, metal fatigue.... well... you can guess what happened...
19:50 you start talking about the "step off the mine myth" but you are incorrect when you said that no mines are designed like that. There are a lot of mines designed like that, the mechanism of operation we're talking about is called "pressure release" and you had even mentioned them numerous times throughout the video. Many anti-handling devices that you also talked about in this video are pressure release mechanisms as well that will set off the landmine. The Soviet MS3 is a good example of this type of mine. Also, the S-Mine, the very same mine you're talking about when you brought up the myth, could be set up on a tension release tripwire, which in effect uses the same method of operation to set it off.
P.S. Monuments Men technically isn't really incorrect since the mine in that movie fails to function, so the actors/soldiers are correct to not disturb it any further than they have to once they become aware of it.
Lovely video, really enjoyed it, thank you!
Just one thing, you have a similar problem with German pronounciation as Ian from Forgotten Weapons. There are no silent-e's in German at the end of Words. It's not "Min", it's "Mine", the last letter is pronounced as well! In french you often leave out the e I think. Ian does the same thing with "Pistol" instead of "Pistole". As a German native speaker that irks me a bit, sorry :D
Good thing these mines are more robust than your fragile expectations.
It equally annoys me when the "e" is pronounced as "a" by English speakers. "Porscha" or "pistola" instead of Porsche and pistole, but it's easily forgiven. I often pronounce English words wrong, stressing the wrong syllable und so weiter.
@@BennyZellner Seriously?
@@spajdudeThe thing is that there is little consistency in the English language, due to it borrowing its vocabulary from multiple languages that have conflicting rules about spelling and pronunciation. So native English speakers are always guessing when they see a new word or name. And people with different dialects and accents will often arrive at different conclusions. For example, most Americans would pronounce Worcester as something like "War-csest-er", but people from New England or the United Kingdom know that it's "Wüs-ter".
@@safetysandals That is definitely true, and why learning how to pronounce seldom used English words correctly can be difficult if you're reading a text, even if you're a native English speaker.
Those 2 "S-mines" created for display purposes?
I love how these videos make German mines out to be the only enemy we have ever faced when it comes to these horrible devices. In fact, western mines are the most distributed mines all across the world. Ask Vietnam, ask Cambodia, ask China, ask anyone where the West has been and you will find mines. PF-1 ring a bell?
According to Wikipedia, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China are the largest manufacturers of landmines today. During the Gulf War, the U.S. laid 118,000 mines. In contrast, Germany in WW2 laid tens of millions of mines (500,000 just in preparation for one battle: the Battle of El Alamein). There's plenty of blame to go around today: India, Pakistan, Myanmar, China, Russia, Iran and Vietnam are producing and stockpiling mines right now.
Damn... BOOM.... LOTS OF BOOMS....😮😢😢😢😢
lethal radius of 150 meters?? that is way father than i would have imagined
That's the maximum measurable distance where fragments have enough velocity to kill you, in absolute ideal conditions. It's most likely taken from a direct manual, and all the allied and axis powers would flub numbers to make their stuff seem better.
The vast majority of the pellets will hit the ground, or someone, before traveling that far.
The model escapes me, but there a modern hand grenade with a claimed blast radius of 20 meters, but the actual assured kill radius is 5 or less.
@@5isalivegaming72 propaganda.
@@5isalivegaming72 ok i was thinking it had to be off by an order of magnitude
@@Nderak It's not necessarily off, in the literal sense that a fragment might kill you at that distance if you were unlucky enough to be hit--but there are only so many fragments and in these models they aren't pre-formed for optimal size distribution, nor aimed particularly well
There’ll always be mines on the battlefield, because they work.
18:38 no it doesnt have 4kg of TNT, the entire thing weighs 4kg, explosive charge is 190g, also the lethal radius is not 150m, it is 25m, read wikipedia carefully next time :P
during ww1 my maternal grandfather, 2nd London regt ambulance driver, had several of his fellow ambulance driver mates killed picking up boobytrapped "souvineers" the germans were placing their potato masher hand grenades with the pull cord tied to an object, on top of a wooden keg of explosives... when my grandfather came across a German Picklehaub helmet sitting in the middle of a road. he was wary, and from a safe distance would throw rocks at it... after som time he finaly knocke it over, and saw it was not rigged to anything. and when he got back late to the depot, his captain was furious, and ordered him to undergo Filed Punishment No. 1. Tied to the whells for a cart for several hours. Grandpop kept the spike of the helmet, and soldered it to the radiator cap of ever car he drove. still have it as a family heirloom.
I know they are inert but I ducked when the top of the S mine prongs were tapped.
Incidents in the Netherlands:
July 18, 1983 An AP-23 mine explodes in a classroom at the military base near Oldebroek. This accident kills seven soldiers and injures nine. Based on the investigation report by the Royal Military Police, the Minister of Defense concludes that the accident was caused by the confusion of an instructional mine with a live mine. This confusion is due to a series of human errors made over a period of nine years. The mine is blocked. This means that the mine could only be used with explicit permission. The other measures that are subsequently taken are mainly aimed at preventing the confusion of live ammunition with instructional ammunition. No technical investigation has been carried out into the mine.
September 14, 1984 During a periodic investigation at the Artillery Shooting Camp in Oldebroek, a mine that has been set off remotely does not explode. When the test leader walks towards the mine, this still happens. The test leader is killed instantly. The AP-23 mine is blocked again.
@@herosstratos My cousin's husband was a kid in WWII. They fled when the Russians approached and he ended up running over a land mine. It was probably a teller mine set for anti-vehicle.
I am new to this channel, but I know you from somewhere else, you grew a beard, and I didn't recognize you except by your voice LOL, or am I confusing you with a doppler-ganger here on another You Tube Channel?
I think the Glassmine-43 was the deadliest to infantry due its difficulty in detection. Yes, the S-Mine was the most feared because it would blow up at genital height but could be detected by mine detectors. I think the shoe mine would have been the other most feared mine due to the fact that no soldier wants to return home a cripple missing a foot or lower leg limb, Most other German mines would just end in death. I can't speak for how well any allied tanks faired against German ATM', so I won't suppose which was the most effective of them all.
I am surprised that you did not cover the magnetic ATM's, but maybe you will in another episode. Great stuff covered here and getting to see real examples of them is always helpful to geta better understand to the size of them is eye-opening, so thank you to the museum for helping.
I have seen drone footage many times now of Ukrainian's deploying Soviet Era TM-62 mines via big sized drones directly on top of Russian bunker positions and landing either upright or not, they still detonate about 10-15 seconds later. How they do this I have no idea, but 16 1/2 lbs. of TNT going off right over your location is not a recoverable situation 👍👍💙💛
Doppler.
Now im thinking of Finding Nemo when he swims into Sydney Harbour and all the seagulls watching haha
How ilustrative.
What movie. Is. They first clip from ? I remember watching it with grandfather. Who went to the. Pacific as a child
What was that film about mine removal again?
It sounds pretty interesting. I’d like to watch it!
Orig title (Danish): Under sandet (literal Under the sand)
Engl title: Land of mine
@@michaeltempsch5282 it was Brilliant!
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Some areas in Germany are still riddled with glas mines as tgey are so hard to clear and being made of glas last extremely long
after development of gunpowder by the Chinese (which was not originally for warfare) the Chinese themselves developed land mines derived from clay pots, gunpowder and a pressure plate style piece connected to a spark striker...
Very cool my friend. Well done 🇨🇦
How do you know it was cold there?
Crafty fellas those germans.
I remember my service as a sapper almost 40 years ago. We also had instructions about the jumping mines. They told us not to tighten the tripwires too tightly, otherwise the mines would fly in the face of whoever had to arm them. And the best thing was, the mines had to arm those who had no family. So, no wife and children. Because the mine could still explode. A really ugly thing this mine.
What’s wrong with RUclips showing 29 minutes advertisements. can’t wait for Chinese version
Hey, do you know that during the video you switch between English and German pronunciations of “mine”? (KIDDING! Saw the comment at the beginning, started writing this comment during the ads. I hope the comment , regardless of content, boosts your search and channel just that little bit more! I already know while the video is playing it’s gonna be great!)
Saw that Movie and it is a must See. It will give everybody a lot to think about the Millions of Mine still buried around the World and the Man and Woman that do the Job of Disarming.
@0:02m, had to pause to read. 🤔Now, having watched to the end..bouncing between languages is tricky.🙄.no apologies necessary.👍🙏🙏🙏😸
you and Simon Whistler should do a collaboration.... ?
He does wright for Simon
19:40 As I heard, the Germans also willingly used an electric igniter. If the enemy did not step on the mine, it could be detonated remotely and the wide spread of metal balls also gave a chance to eliminate the enemy. Another interesting fact is the German "surprise mines" left in abandoned areas. Some of them had a timer that worked with a delay of up to a month! Others had an electric igniter connected to the local electrical grid. When the enemy occupied the area and repaired the destroyed power plants, the buildings exploded. One of the strangest German ideas was a mine in the form of a concrete explosive ball. As far as I understand, it could be rolled (e.g. from a hill) onto an opponent below. So actually it's not a mine, but a type of ammunition. I don't know if this has been used successfully anywhere. However, I saw this ball in another brochure with the comment that it was placed in trees and detonated remotely. The radioactive sand case is amazing! I thought I knew something, but it turned out how much I still didn't know.
well that’s an entirely different kind of TMI now isn’t it?
Made a mistake, you said the S-mine had 4kg of explosives, which is not true. Though the mine itself weighs about that much in total.
I saw the thumbnail and thought this was a UFO video.
In Russia; mine clicks you.
Excellent video and very informative, however, you pronounce every letter in German, Mine is prounounced Me-neh
well, in the context of a mine (or weapons in general), 'Scharf' translates simply to 'armed'.
Where were the Penn mines?
Sick weapons from sick minds. Good presentation anyway.
Anzio👍
I recall the “Honeywell Project” which dealt with cluster bombs made in Minneapolis, Minnesota by a corporation now , as then, mostly known for manufacturing household thermostats and such…
Land mines are also indiscriminate and beyond cruel!!
Like that youtuber says, create dilemmas not problems or what ever it was again
16:34 And if you know what a curling stone is, you’re either a limey, a Canuck, a nerd, or some combination of the 3.
😂 that thumbnail …
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germany would have loved plastic extrusion technology for making landmines
Plastic extrusion was invented in Germany before the war.
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150 meters or 150 feet?
He said 150 meters, but this isn't accurate. In reality, the deadly radius is about 20 meters and the injury radius 100 meters.
However, as with all shrapnel, there's an aspect of randomness to this; I've seen it myself in footage from the war against Ukraine. Someone can survive seemingly unscathed (minus permanent hearing damage) a few meters next to the explosion, whereas someone else hundreds of meters away gets killed by a random piece of hot metal. That said, the design of this mine in particular, with it jumping up before detonating, reduces the odds for people in the vicinity quite dramatically, since it virtually eliminates the chance of small terrain elevations catching shrapnel before it reaches them.
Did all the countries keep records on how many of these mines were buried ? Makes me wonder how many of these are still active. Very informative, thank you
Some kept records, but even those are incomplete. At best, they could know how many mines were sent out.
Some countries issued mines to soldiers the way they would issue grenades. "Carry these heavy devices in your pack until they are needed." Mines aren't something you use in combat, so such soldiers predictably found opportunities to dispose of these mines by secretly hiding them one here and another there.
Jumpin' Jack was Jack Dyer, the gardener of Keith Richards cottage Redlands, of the Chichester Harbour village of West Wittering. The Stones seems to have a knack for very old, thatched, but fancy estates.... But i guess a thatched building i a climate like that, you do need a gardener / building manager or stuff will quickly go moldy...
And those roofs, what an excellent place to hide your weeds..
Using prisoner of war to work on mines was a war crime from those so holy allies. 😡
That's why they were no longer POWs but recategorized as "Disarmed Enemy Forces"
I have a dream 🙄. The day will come in which YOU speak a bit slowly so I understand what you say better .😌😬
We used bar mines to breach walls in compounds in Columbia in an effort to break into compounds of drug dealers
Pilz = mushroom
I really want to know how you qualify to be a presenter that handles artifacts in a museum. Inert or not, there are few places that will just let people pick-up ordinance like that.
great video, PS: your German pronunciations are GREAT, Not inconsistencies, but good additions, you are obviously quoting from the original literature, and how history recorded it, and using 'Propper' English when constructing the contextual paragraphs, giving us background, so also correct, as at that time, you are third person, looking at it, or a "Narrator" of this story, interconnecting fact and historical timeline.
His German pronunciation is great to you? You must not speak German then. Not to denigrate his commendable attempt to pronounce a foreign language correctly, but the only time he pronounced "mine" correctly was when using the plural form (minen). The German word "mine" is pronounced "meen-uh"
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