I was a combat engineer in the Marines. It was literally (one of my) my (many) job(s) to know how to emplace and remove landmines. I've had people tell me to my face that I'm wrong when I've brought this up. The bouncing betty scene in behind enemy lines was the one that immediately comes to mind. That being said, anyone that might have tested the "don't move when you step on a mine" theory probably didn't live long enough to tell anyone it didn't work.
@@GidarGaming You have LEGS? PAH! What luxury, I replaced mine with two twigs from a pine tree after a nasty fall from an office chair. The twigs were from the xmas tree, so now I sound like santa`s sleigh whenever I walk..
8:31 This is common misinformation actually. The most common use for these kinds of devices is for securing various gold idols in temples to make sure they don't get stolen by archeologists
so they destroy the artifacts? Not saying you're wrong, but that sounds pretty dumb when you could booby trap in other ways that keep the artifact intact, while still killing or maiming the thief. Release of a deadly toxin vapour, Vietcong style impaler contraption, concealed machine gun rigged to fire when that pressure is released, using the same fuse but wiring it to an explosive device positioned away from the artifact, or whatever... just spitballing.
The mine you are seeking is made by ACME. They also make 32 round submachine gun magazines that can hold unlimitted rounds unless its a crucial moment in the film, weapons with no recoil and everyday cars with bullet proofing only on the front doors. They are better known for making sky pianos and anvils.
And portable holes that you can just unroll or paint on to stuff to make tunnels and pits and other useful stuff; yeah, I watched way too much Wile E Coyote as a kid, meep meep.
Nah, Worms taught me mines are proximity-based and will beep very loudly when you come near them, only exploding after several seconds to give you enough time to run to safety after alerting you of their presence and intent to explode.
@@DamienSmyth-v6k also they have a beamer that targets the eyes of people around it highlighting the direction of the mine... fun fact: grenades have those too
This can't be true, movies are so much easier to watch than books are to read. I simply refuse to believe that movies aren't 100 percent accurate all the time.
Nothing is more intense and dramatic than real life. I recommend watching season 2 of Squid game. Their explanation of reloading, change type of fire, and the constant conversations regarding ammo, make it far more suspenseful and realistic than anything Hollywood has done in decades. Ironic that of all people, Americans can't get guns in film right.
Combat engineer here. About anti vehicle mines, it's true they aren't meant to go off with the weight of a person. However it's important that most mines you'll encounter in the world have likely been buried for decades and are extremely unpredictable. They could never work, or randomly detonate, or ..... Just keep your distance
I read an account of a battle in Italy, possibly in the Liri Valley, where a company was attacking across a road that turned out to be mined. A soldier looks briefly down the road as a dashed to the other side and sees his sergeant a couple hundred feet away. The sergeant tripped a Teller mine and the bottom half of his body vanished. Either the antitank mine was defective or the running sergeant happened to stomp it with sufficient force.
Some anti Tank mines can be modified to set off at a lower weight though. Theres an yellow italian one for example, which lets you cut/remove some of the Bars Holding the pressure plate making it easier to detonate
I would not try a modern AT mine either. The fuses are quite varying and can be triggered by as little as 150kg of pressure in some of the mines. While 150kg men don't generally make good soldiers, a soldier with heavy gear that's running may just be able to set one off if he gets lucky... or unlucky.
UXO is truly terrifying when not properly dealt with and dealt with quickly. Places like Ukraine are going to have areas polluted with the things for years to come even if the war stopped tomorrow. Add in the fact that you rarely have *just* landmines in an area but other UXO like cluster bomblets, grenades, etc and it gets quite nasty. There's a reason why nations in the modern day are supposed to keep good records on the use of such weapons (something Russia isn't doing). It is important for both the militaries to know for after the war but also NGOs involved in demining efforts and protecting civilians.
@@sophiagwen unfornately most victims of mines today are children and the mines do not kill they maim, so youll lose an arm , a leg or piece of it , or it will disfigure you, dying to a mine would be bliss
I once thought I had nearly tripped an IED in an abandoned building I was searching. I looked down at it and thought I was dead. Then realized it was just a broken alarm clock. Weird what the mind sees. I think I associated a clock with a bomb and in that split second equated the two. But definitely a situation where stopping an action might be enough to not trip the explosive, depending on how it was set up.
my guess is that survivorship bias always plays into it, imagine if someone steps on a mine, notices it but its a dud, now someone else will come and defuse it and you'd think it didn't detonate cause he kept staying on it, while if it weren't a dud it would've immediately exploded and then no one could verify if it exploded when stepped on or when the foot got lifted
Not a bad theory. But I think it's just Hollywood polluting peoples mine. When an actor steps on one and they stand there hoping it doesn't go off, it makes an intense drama filled scene. And it also makes the audience think what they would do in that situation and gets them engaged. That's why people think they work that like, hollywood
@@douggaudiosi14probably, Hollywood shows snipers using laser, supressors being whisper quite, thermal Imaging seeing through walls, unlimited magazines, body armor being much better than it should be or the opposite, etc
@@alexpivniouk8421 Because he was probably trained by the military to dive and hit the deck immediately or something rather than being informed by a Hollywood movie. Did you watch the video?
@@kudosensei yes, and you clearly have issues reading. The first phase of the charge, which is what OP says was activated, would blow the man's foot off BEFORE he could react. Even if the second phase was a dud, the initial explosion would still take your foot off!
I always heard that, should you tread on a mine, you're supposed to jump 200 ft in the air and scatter yourself over a wide area. Captain Blackadder taught me that.
I was standing not more than 10' away from a 9-year-old girl who stepped on a toe-popper in Bosnia. The blast was loud and she was blown into the air and her leg was gone below the knee. Blood tissue bones everywhere. The Turkish troops who's sector we were in sprang right into action they had her in a tourniquet and on a stretcher in less than 2 minutes and tossed her and her mother (They had to throw her in) into a vehicle to their HQ and the medics. I'll never forget her screaming.
@@Secret_Moon war is such a desperate struggle that people are fighting to the death: there is no banning of anything that will hold in the face of the risks threatening to reach the decision-makers. "Soldiers dying is fine, but if we're maybe going to lose the war which could affect ME then we should modify our tactics to include things previously unthinkable."
Honestly it would be a terrifying and great surprise in a movie to have someone step on a mine and think they should keep standing on it and even have two guys argue about whether to or not, just for it to go off and suddenly the audience would be terrified and at this point it would begin to introduce more realistic mines to them, but because audiences are so used to the mine tropes, it really would come as a surprise.
Not a bad idea. Honestly really having some more realism like that in a war movie might make watching it a bit more enjoyable. But I'm sure some people, given the myth, would purposefully design a few mines like that just to mess with the enemy...
It also would make logical sense. Old explosives can very often take a long time to ignite. It's why if you're shooting old milsurp ammo and a round doesn't go off, you're supposed to wait several minutes before extracting it just in case it goes off late
@@GidarGaming Agreed, altho it's not necessary to make that for me to watch them more often. I watch a movie which in pretty much every case is an action movie that at best depicts war as brutal and pointless, not necessarily because everything is realistic. They're for entertainment primarily and I don't think any different of them than if I'd watch a James Bond movie, a Die Hard movie or Mission Impossible tbh. But a mine that blows everyone up (well, or rather injures the ones standing next to the guy who stepped on it who at that point bleeds out due to... you know, loosing his lower body) while discussing if to stay on it or jump off it would certainly be a good jumpscare that comes unexpected.
For a film, if a mine just exploded like they are supposed to, you wouldn't get those moments after where we grapple with the concept of the "practically dead" or quantum dead, sure, they are for all intents and purposes alive at that time, but as soon as they move, they're dead, so they might as well be dead already. This gives the 'dead' character a moment to wax philosophical while the others get the chance to say goodbye or panic, and draw the emotions of the moment out. If you're watching a completely realistic tragedy, you'd have a character remark, "Don't move! It'll only explode if you-" then gets cut off by the explosion. The tragedy is that the expectation of having that "last opportunity" to be with that character is cut off abruptly by reality.
But the real fear comes after someone triggers one. You are now in a massive psychological quandary. How far into the field are you? And which step will be your last one on two legs? Actually the real question is why are you still alive? The biggest mistake hollywood makes is not understanding the purpose of mines fields. They are to deny useful land to the enemy and funnel them into a killing zone, and you never leave one unattended. So if you are traversing a minefield then your already under attack, you can either probe for mines or dodge machine gun fire, doing both is a real feat. An australian general ordered the construction of an 11 km barrier during the vietnam war. 20,000 M16 mines were planted and 13 sappers were killed in the process. There is no way you can monitor an area that great, so not long after it was made charlie moved in and lifted most of them. Apparently most of the explosive booby traps that killed allied soldiers used those mines. It is the first lesson taught to new sappers.
That's how Kenny Johnson dies in Sons of Anarchy. While laying seige to some rival biker dooshb3gs, he steps on a landmine, cut to closeup of his face as he says, "you've gotta be f333'n kidding me." BOOM!
@@andrealasorte7747 maybe theoretically, but the “something” would have to weigh about as much as an adult person and still be thin enough to slide under your foot without removing the pressure.
As a veterinary nurse, I feel your pain. Try telling people that defibrillators aren't for flatlining people. That you can't staple an abdomen shut (Prometheus). Or the favourite: Dominance in dogs is not a thing.
@katzenkampf Thank you for proving my point. Yes I am a veterinary nurse, with an interest in behaviour, and I have worked in the industry for 18 years, and have a BSc(Hons) degree which included behavioural studies. Dominance in dogs isn't a thing. The theory has been disproven since at least the 1990s, but is so pervasive that it is very difficult to get the general population to accept it. The theory was based on an incredibly flawed study of captive wolves back in the 1930s, and is in no way applicable to domestic dogs - whose behaviour is significantly different. Your dog is not trying to fight with you to be the alpha, there are other reasons for the behaviour you are seeing. There is plenty of scientific evidence for this available. Any behaviourist or trainer who has had formal scientific based training will confirm this.
@@herstoryanimated i guess im never gonna beileve you, ive seen dogs and cats make a hierarchy and have dominance over each other and sometimes their owners. What other reason does a pet have for stealing food or marking their territory if it aint for dominance?
@katzenkampf Marking their territory is normally sexual in nature, but can also occur from a fear/insecurity base. There may be a form of hierarchy between the pets but it is usually very fluid (not a fixed dominance system), and comes from more of a resource guarding base - than I'm the alpha/leader and you just submit to me. Think of it more as one pet saying I want this food more than you so I'm going to push through first, and the second wanting to avoid confrontation so may hang back. For the love of God don't start bringing cats into it.
@@katzenkampf bro this is 3 minutes of googling to correct type stuff, listen to the vet. As a person with 3 dogs, they really aren't like that and there are plenty of very well made educational videos built to break up this myth. Also yes cats and dogs will fight for territory somtimes. If your dog is stealing food from your other dog its not some dominance bs its the exact same way i steal food from my siblings, pettiness.
One of my dad's jobs in Vietnam was to go into a minefield if one of their men had stepped onto a landmine to "pick up what was left for the family to bury" as he put it, because he was small and lightweight, so the Marines thought he'd be less likely to trigger additional landmines. Even if he did step on one, his commanders said it'd be easier to pull him off quickly (the yank-off-with-a-truck method you mentioned). The fact that his own commanders were telling the enlisted this lie about "keep standing on it" is just vile, as if the landmine blew up 4 seconds later, they could say "He must have let up pressure" and shift blame of the death onto the soldier who never stood a chance to begin with.
I AM NOT a soldier, and I DO NOT need any special training or knowledge in any form of engineering, explosives expertise, or any other knowledge for that matter, to KNOW, beyond a SHADOW of a doubt, that survivability bugs aren't designed purposefully into killing machines
I am not military and cannot speak from experience, but I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing is a lie told to grunts to give them a sense of control over the horrifying realities of war. If they think they can control when a landmine explodes if they're just careful enough, they're more willing to obey an order to walk into a mined area. Hopefully this isn't something that modern, civilized militaries do but I would suspect its something that militaries less concerned about casualties are happy to do.
Back in the 70's one of my neighbors encountered an S type mine in Vietnam and it went off while he was standing on it. The force knocked him backwards, removed half his foot and lightly peppered him, but most of the balls went above him. Unfortunately, a man near him was killed.
not uncommon for the guy steping on its only majory injury is the mine and charge actuly going through thier foot rather then then shrapnel payloadwho normally gets anyone standing near them
A similar thing happened to my father in Germany. He stepped on a mine and one foot was shattered, but he survived, while the two men beside him were killed.
Weird... I don't watch war movies often at all so I hadn't ever picked up on this common myth. I always just assumed stepping on a landmine meant you were screwed. The end. Just doesn't make any sense to give someone a chance to escape being blown up
Lol same. Never seen a single war movie so I never knew would have assumed people believed this about mines, figured they immediately activated once you stepped on it. Still pretty interesting though.
I always assumed that it's (obviously) for the dramatic effect. But at the same time I just thought to myself that it's not unrealistic to have some like those in the field, especially when they're being used as part of a funnel that's overwatched or just simply to make troops more insecure about what's going to happen. Especially in overwatch situations it'd be by far worse than any conventional mine where you just come under fire but don't know how far you're in the field itself, no - by far worse as you not only don't know how far you're in the field, but you also can just delay fire entirely until they start to try out a solution to help the other person off of it delaying their reaction time by even more as fear has not only taken over but them being busy on top.
My Uncle went ashore at Normandy on June 7th. His recollection of German S-mines was "Inconsistent, but not in a won't explode way". When they were learning about them they were told the 4 or 5 seconds before it bounced. Some exploded instantly, some took one or two seconds longer, some just exploded without bouncing. His first experience was with the latter, when a member of his platoon stepped on one and "vanished, except for his left boot- which is all we sent home".
At least he talked about it. My great uncles, one was a paratrooper in Germany one ended up in Singapore, neither of them were ever in a state to say what happened. Nobody ever really wanted to talk about the uncle who fought the Japs, except to say the poor fucker was the only survivor in his unit and the way England built its regiments at the time he'd gone to school with all of the other members, so had to go around telling everyone's parents how their sons died. After that he was pretty much insane. The paratrooper had bad spells and would wake up in the night sweating, later in life he nearly killed a nurse thinking she was a Jerry.
@@richarddavis2605 it's common that delay elements fail in a non-delay manner. When you get cracking in the delay element, it propagates much faster than it should.
@@paulsaccani1115This is why soldiers are always told to never 'cook' grenades like in movies and games. Even modern hand grenades don't have truly consistent fuses.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician here. As with most dudes who have input their experience I'm glad someone like you can spread the truth to a significantly larger casual audience than most guys who did the work in real life. I remember in EOD school when we were going over landmines, we quickly dispelled the idea of the "Hollywood" landmine, which functions on a "pressure-release" system in many movies and shows. It would make no sense for a landmine to detonate after the plunger is released because it is now up to chance for it to hit who it needs to hit. Since a majority of landmines are what we consider "blast" mines (meaning they are full of HE with no other purpose other than to harass/maim/kill) it would only make sense for them to go off when the pressure plate/plunger receives... well... pressure. Fun Fact: Anti-tank landmines are usually seen as super dangerous. But you have to think that this thing is targeting a 1-3 ton vehicle, WHY would you want it to go off if Joe Schmo accidentally walks over it when he goes to take a piss? AT mines are actually safer than APERS mines in terms of sensitivity, just don't think because of that you should kick them around like that video of Ukranians kicking them off of a road.
funny enough one of the comments mentioned a Yugoslavian PM-2 mine and it’s one of the movies that encouraged the misconception he shows. I remember that scene, pretty good Owen Wilson movie
Seems like every professional school has to first tell students "No, Hollywood is full of shit." My personal favorite being people who decide to major in Criminal Forensics and then leave immediately when they learn "No, CSI isn't remotely accurate. You're largely just running tests in a lab. You're DEFINITELY never going to arrest someone yourself."
@@agar322 Haha technically there's no better way to take care of a mine or item than getting right on top of it. That's what makes people think we're crazy.
No but honestly, just a character like that makes it like 3/4 of the movie. All saying everything about the baby and his wife. And then in one supposedly relaxing scene he just blows up. Nothing else, just gone. Truly a gruesome reality of war
Haha bro has no arguments left against pressure release mines, so instead, he resorts to personal attacks based on his own insecurities. Nice one buddy. You told us more about yourself than you did about him. 😅 if you reply to this comment with a smart, snarky stab, you’ll only further the proof. 🤷♂️
@@owenjenkinsofficialI think you are purposely disregarding the context of the comment. The timestamp is right after the joke in the video for the guy to be casted in a Hollywood movie as the guy who gets blown up by a land mine. With that context I think the comment is saying that he would fit the stereotypical look of such a character
11:05 Imagine stepping on an anti-handling device, and finding a note next to it which reads “Yeah, we’re out of land mines, so would you be so kind to pull the pin, and wait about 40 minutes? Thanks, appreciate it!”
I'm certainly not going to claim that this is solely a Progressive trait, but they've certainly created a whole new niche for delusional beliefs hysterically defended and maintained.
And especially something so banal. Like, certainly there's some dread in grappling with the fact that you might have been wrong about something that you've based a lot of your other beliefs and behaviours on, but what do you lose in admitting you were misled about how a weapon you've never used or encountered works?
@@TetanusSnowfall That's the new world order. People are taught they have a right to be right. When told it ain't true, well that person or their source must be a [other side of political spectrum]-wing/ist conspiracy nut.
I've ALWAYS been under the impression that the fact the land mines in these movies didn't ALREADY go off is sheer dumb luck/by accident, but any further movement may still set off the now-quasi-set-off Schrödinger's land mine. In this case, it's even MORE terrifying, as actually, whatever accidentally kept the land mine from *already blowing up* (some tiny twig caught in a mechanism? some tiny bit of rust that built up that's just barely jamming the gears or whatever?) might just stop working at any time, meaning the mine could actually explode ANY SECOND without ANY FURTHER INPUT of movement.
12:10 The double impulse mine: A relative of mine was in the army and he was in that first vehicle. He survived, but the ones on the second vehicle all died. It's been almost 20 years since then. He's retired now and still with us. Very tough thing to live through.
That's rough on anybody to have people die around you, but your pals, friends... Brothers in arms. That can devastate a man. Even if you somehow soldier through it, it's always there. That's just another lasting consequence of war we don't like to talk about.
@@tomaszwota1465 double impulse mines are one of the worst things tho. not only do you know that you barely survived while your friends died, you also know precisely that you pretty much killed them as they were following your tracks and you armed their demise.
@@teru797 good lord, thats the internet in a nutshell. there is always somebody questioning the truth, the experience and also the whole universe, because there was sometimes something different than the proven design. its like stating that the german flew flying wing airplanes trough the war, because some brothers had glued some prototypes together in their shed. Dude, the french maybe lost the war because they had stupid mine designs. 🤣
Ironic. So many films and shows teaching people to not step off mines when in reality you only have a few precious seconds to get as far away as possible
At best a few precious seconds. Your best bet is just taking a full force dive immediately, as quickly away as possible while making yourself as small as possible. If that didn't work nothing would've worked.
Hello, retired Canadian combat engineer here. Your explanations are right on. The fear and psychological impact that anti-personnel mines created is part of the reason for the myth. Even recently, when I had to teach mine awareness classes to non-combat arms support personnel, before a deployment, I had to destroy the myth. Good videos, you can clearly see the research you’ve done.
Sometimes people will ask purposefully stupid questions to get the instructor talking, in order to 'show engagement' without having to actually think about what they are told. It is stupid but is done enough because it works.
Humans are fearful creatures that try to generate explanations when information is missing. That is to say, we are just big versions of Skinner Pigeons. Just adding a random timer/unknown factor to when a mine will detonate is bound to generate some myth of this nature.
Arguably the best depiction of a landmine was in Tropic Thunder when the director Damien Cockburn steps on an old French landmine and get blown to pieces. We don't know if it was a pressure release mine but it can be argued that it was a pressure-detonate mine that had a delay due to it being old and in the elements for 60 years.
Almost all land mines (by most countries) are either pressure detonated, or toggle detonated (toggles work great in an area with tall grass, or for light-skin vehicles). And yes: Tropic Thunder was fairly accurate in that. Afghanistan is filled with abandoned minefields like that. That happens all the time over there.
Another good depiction of mines, trip wire ones specifically, was in one of the Episodes of Dusty faces, where Soviet POMZ mines (I think) are hidden behind the trees and go off the moment someone touches the wire.
This was part of the Belgian army field training: "anti-personnel mines don't work like in the movies! -if you think you've stepped on one and you live long enough to realise this, yell MINE, try to run a few steps forward and hit the dirt."
1:00 as some one who understands logic yeah i would design a ladmine that explodes right away rather than after aspecialy when you understand how tanks work
@matheuscabral9618I could think of ways that mines that explode when you step off them could actually increase casualties. The feedback when stepping on one would have to be robust to make sure the person stepping on it knew that he had and would freeze. I would see such a mine being especially devious as part of an ambush. The enemy unit would probably lose a lot of time trying to figure out what to do and whether they should leave their man behind or what have you.
I lived in Okinawa in 1965, only 20 years after the great war. A group of us military dependents found what looked like an inverted bucket with a "periscope" under a bridge and hauled it up. Although we eventually called Unexploded Ordnance Removal, we played around with it and even dented the periscope part. It turned out the device was a Japanese anti-tank mine which blew up as they were about to explode it themselves. No one was hurt and, thankfully, I am still alive today as a 70-year-old.
Guess that shows that it really needed some pressure to be set off. Guess it'd have been a different story if the mine had been very old as then it might've been easier to set off than it'd be intended to do.
Just thinking about it, the explosion on stepping off would make for a more complicated trigger and one that gives victims some chance of escaping. At the very least it gives people nearby time to get to safety. Who would design a mine like that? But for movies this is a good source of drama, so makes sense for them to portray a mine like that. Maybe based on a story of a malfunctioning mine that didn't go off immediately
It's one of those right tools for the right job sort of a thing. It all depends on what you're wanting to do with those explosives. It's less than ideal to have people walking over your minefield and having to worry about safely resetting things. Which is part of why minefields are sometimes labeled as such. The point of the minefield is often just to discourage people from taking that path.
I don't know about a trigger for stepping off, but a few second delay makes sense for that type of landmine, so that the victim has time to step off of it. The first charge that launches it up is there because the shrapnel will hit a wider area if the mine is up in the air, and it has to be a small enough charge not to set off the rest of the mine. This means that if the victim is still standing on it when it goes off, it may not launch up properly, and is less likely to hit the victim's squadmates. It occurs that this could also be a less benevolent reason why the myth of standing on a mine to avoid setting it off was perpetuated. The guy that stepped on it is doomed, but he might save lives by staying on top of it and yelling out to his squad that he stepped on a mine.
the only conceivable reason you'd want that is for something like a bouncing betty, where the soldier being off the mine means their body won't block it flying up into the air, but a 4.5s fuse is far simpler and does the job just as well so it is again unnecessary even in the best case scenario
To answer your question as to who would design a mine that goes off when pressure is released, the answer, a very insidious person. Lets say you're storming the beach, high pressure high intensity situation, couple of lads go up in a poof of sand and reddish smear. Oh, they stepped on a mine. Fighting calms down, enemy retreats, you're a few miles inland when you hear a *click*. It doesn't go off, the fear, uncertainty, and tension are there for you and everyone else. Luckily you got your friends to help you which they do. Some more walking, the occasional bit of fighting, but now a period of calm again. You're walking through the fields, *click*, *boom*. That's the fear of not knowing.
The movie to watch for land mines is the 2015 LAND OF MINE, about young Germans ordered to remove 1 million mines on the coast of Norway, after the war ended.
Ex army engineer here. I am impressed at your homework commitment. You are the first one i have ever heard or seen talking about the double impulse fuse in a antitank/vehicle mine. You could actually take the fuse out and use up the "first impulse" by use of a tool called the "Nut Cracker" when i was in the the mob. I was never really happy with the concept of doing so with a live fuse and thankfully never had to. Another of many variants is the tilt fuse, it will operate under pressure, however a thin carbon rod is sticking up. Usually used in long grass, so if a tank tracks were to actually bridge over the mine, the belly plate would tilt the rod and boom. Might not be a K Kill, but the crew will be very unhappy.
15:00 - I'm just imagining a scene in a black comedy war film where a character stands on a landmine, says a whole thing about how it'll only explode once he steps off, and that he needs to dive in a specific way to ensure he survives. He then dives off of the mine he stepped on, only to land on another mine, which explodes normally. The first mine was a dud 😂
I believe double impulse anti tank mines are used to defeat mine rollers set in front of a tank to clear the mines before they can explode under a tank
indeed, Other approaches include remote (manually) detonated mines, and mine stacking, ie two antitank mines on top of eachother, can sometimes even destroy mineclearing equipment
Not sure that's ever been made. I have seen setups where the enemy anticipate the likely movement of a clearance vehicle and have a set up where the flail hits an initiator, then det cord connects with a large charge under where the clearance vehicle is expected to be. Unfortunately quite effective in Afghanistan against humanitarian deminers in the nineties.
Its not just movies, had to read a book called "boy overboard" in primary school. A large part of the plot hinges on a landmine not exploding while someone kept standing on it.
I read that too! If I remember correctly though, wasn't it a dud? Chances are the author didn't know that's not how landmines work due to the country he was in, or perhaps still believed it when writing the book?
@myknifeurlife444 i remember this too, it was a dud. i believe it was the protagonist's little sister that stood on the mine, and after a while of standing on it she eventually got so freaked out she stepped off of it. what a nostalgic throwback.
a new movie called "Canary Black" is a perfect example of this myth, when Kate Beckinsale steps on a bouncing betty, and then doesn't move. Another horrible myth is how long it takes for a hand grenade to detonate. Most movies allow way too much time before they explode.
To be honest the lack of delay is in my opinion far more terrifying, mines are horrific and delay or not, I don’t ever want to encounter one. Great video!
Just from an engineering perspective that wouldnt really make sense anyways for anti personnel mines. If you want to trigger it when it returns to the default position after being pressed, that means you need to have a sensor that detects it being pressed, which could then simply trigger the explosive, but rather than that you would add additional logic and points of failure, by adding a second sensor which would then have to be able to detect that it returned to its original position, to then trigger the explosive. This would just make mines more expensive, complex, more likely to fail and in no way more effective at what they are doing.
You cxould have a simple spring-loaded mechanical catch that pops an insulating plate aside when the mine is depressed, thus baring a metal contact which touches an opposite contact when the mine is released thus creating a current which detonates the mine.
Kelly’s Heroes, a comedy/drama in 1970 starring Clint Eastwood accurately shows them walking into a mine field and someone walks and instantly dies on a mine. A movie about stealing Nazi gold was more accurate then the “Don’t move on a mine” myth 😂
That movie also accurately displayed that many a GI looted France, like the captain stealing the boat. They were still liberators, but plundering is a thing that soldiers do.
In one of the WWII war memoirs I read, either Eugene Sledge or RV Burgin, there was an interesting part where they recalled new troops fighting in their first battle would take grenades out of the cases they came in, remove the packing strip and toss at the enemy, and the enemy would simply pick them up and remove the pin and use against them.
Great vid :) I did German Pionier (combat engineer) back in the day, and read up on all the period mines. The Germans did indeed have an extensive catalogue of igniters for their mines. BTW, the S-Mine could also be fitted with a pull igniter that could be hooked up to tripwire, single or double headed. Most mines could also be fitted with pull igniters on the bottom, which could be anchored below the mine, and when pulled it goes off... another form of anti-lifting device. Mines are insidious.
Thanks for the input. Are these pull igniters designed to simply make it much harder to defuze the mines? Also, do you know how effective these S-mines were in actually killing soilders, as I could imagine that these steel balls, if the enemy doesn't get hit in a vital organ, wouldn't do enough damage to kill the person, but would still need medical assistance because they would be quite injured? What was their real effective range and what is the effective range of most anti personel and tank mines today?
@@StarWarsExpert_ Yes it's to make it more difficult to clear a path through a minefield. Also engineers are specialized troops, there aren't THAT many of them hanging around so losing a few actually hurts. However generally, you wouldn't clear a minefield by pulling out random enemy mines with no knowledge of whether they have anti-tampering devices in the first place. You'd blow them up in place. The problem is if you're trying to silently open a gap for armor or troops to sneak through unnoticed. Then you'll just have to take it very slowly and try to dig around the mine to see if it's safe to remove before doing so. I can't say anything about S mines, but AP mines are not intended to kill. If you kill a man you take one man out of action. If you severely injure him, he's out along with the 2 men that have to evacuate him. Also strains medical and other resources for the enemy. Answering questions about the range of mines is practically impossible because there are so many in various sized and with different purposes. Thousands if not tens of thousands of different types probably exist in the world. Pressure activated mines, tripwire mines, shaped charge mines, magnetic mines, vibration triggered mines, radio signal activated mines, manually triggered mines, claymores and an endless list of others. Most of the "civilized world" has banned the usage of AP mines through the Ottawa treaty. Not nations like the US or Russia but practically all of Europe doesn't use them anymore. Probably subject to change after Russia's recent actions but I digress. While some AP mines are so small they won't even blow your foot off if you step on them, most can probably be compared to a hand grenade in effectiveness. Not all AP mines are buried in the ground though, some are like the tripwire ones I mentioned and can be a steel tube with explosives in it and strapped to a tree. When you pull the tripwire the fuse detonates and the steel tube turns into shrapnel that is potentially deadly to anything within 20-30 meters. Then there are the claymores that are much more directional and shoot out steel balls in an arc in front of it. They can be different sizes which changes the answer. Could be lethal anywhere between 20 and 60 meters perhaps depending on the variant. Anti-tank mines don't have much of a range for obvious reasons. Has to be close up to knock out a huge steel monster. There are tons of different types here too. Magnetic mines that punch a jet through the bottom of the tank when it drives over it, standard pressure activated mines that are just a block of explosives with a fuse that triggers when a vehicle drives directly over it with tracks or wheels, shaped charge mines that can be positioned next to the road and triggered when a vehicle drives past in order to punch through the weaker side armor etc. There are even some AT mines these days that will jump up, aim themselves towards the very weakly armored top of a tank and punch through it from above. Anyway, the most common and most simple AT mines are the ones that just have a pressure plate and fuse which explodes when directly driven over and enough weight is applied. They don't have a "range" per say, they don't have shrapnel, they just blow the tracks off a tank to immobilize it. Usually they consist of around 7-10kg of TNT. It's highly unlikely to destroy a tank outright or kill the crew, though we've certainly seen Russian tanks have the ability to self-detonate from practically anything. However it's another bit of movie myth that a tank drives over a mine and just explodes. In reality it will just lose its track and be unable to move and the crew will abandon the tank. The general rule for these mines is to space them out by 5 meters so that if one mine goes off, it doesn't create a chain reaction. The blast and flying rocks and pieces of metal would probably kill or injure any infantry within a handful of meters but that is not their purpose.
@@StarWarsExpert_ well yes, pull igniters used as a booby trap are there to kill the impatient or oblivious mine clearers. S-mines had an effective lethal burst radius (the ball bearings) of about 20m, so the closer you were to it, the more damage of course. As WWW stated in the vid, sometimes damage could be reduced or avoided by diving to the ground since the blast more or less radiated sideways.
Mine-warfare is insidious. I read about how some miners would put anti-personnel mines into a ditch close to a anti-tank mine so that when de-miner goes to that ditch to pull the anti-tank mine off, he would set off the anti-personnel mine. So it would slow the tanks requiring expert de-miner but when he blows up, they need to replace him and slow the progress even more.
Oh mine warfare is far more insidious than that too. Give an engineer enough time to mine and prepare an area and any enemies that wander in there will wish they were in hell. Let's give a hypothetical scenario of how we could set things up. In the east of the country where our only likely enemy would arrive, it's mostly wilderness and deep forest with single roads flanked by trees and lakes. You have nowhere to go but the one road. We could start off with magnetic AT mines in the middle of the road. They can be programmed to "count" how many large metallic objects pass over them so you could for example set that it allows 3 tanks to pass and then explodes for the 4th. The 3 tanks ahead can no longer reverse because there's a burning tank behind them blocking the road and they can't get off the road since it's flanked by impenetrable forest. Only way to go is forward, where you'll have more mines. They can't get any de-mining equipment up either because the road is blocked in the other direction as well. Basically, they're stuck. If they DO have a mine clearing vehicle at the front, that can still be countered with what we called an "HP charge". It's a 20kg block of TNT that you place below the 10kg AT mine, making it 3 times as powerful. This is designed to instantly destroy the mine-clearing equipment with a single mine. Additionally the standard procedure when the column gets halted will be to dismount the infantry and have them spread out on the flanks into the forest. Guess where the AP mines have been set up with that expectation. All the while, infantry in ambush positions will be overlooking the minefield and striking with shoulder launched AT weapons, mortars and small arms fire the moment the column comes to a halt. Then after a quick and violent ambush, you disengage before the enemy can get sorted or get support from other units.
I was an ARMY 12B. The scariest mine I ever dealt with was anything with a tilt rod. I only had to work with 2. I’d rather deal with disarming a mouse trap under a mine than mess with a rod.
As a platoon medic in an engineering platoon, I hear you. Those tilt rod mines are TERRIFYING! We had three "go off" during training. Obviously dummies, but I will never forget that ominous *CLICK!* and someone in the squad going "Fuck..." or "uh oh". Had they been live mines, we'd all be dead. 12kg of TNT (anti tank mine) doesn't do nice things to nearby squishy humans.
@ no. A till rod is a long rod that sticks straight up out of a fuze screwed into the top of an anti tank mine. I don’t know about anyone else’s setup, but US mines have a 15degree threshold. As soon as you pass 15 degrees the mine goes off. That rod adds a lot of mechanical advantage to the switch. So if you bump it wrong you’re getting identified by the dog tag in your boot laces.
if only he had seen this video, then maybe he wouldn't have stood there for three days or however long it was I forgot. Though come to think of it, that is a good example of how that misconception could actually harm people.
One thing to note about anti-handling devices is that they're also for effect. You only need to boobytrap say 1 in 10 mines or something like that. Now the enemy is forced to demine every single mine as if it may be boobytrapped.
THANK YOU!!!! I was a US Army combat engineer and I learned about all sorts of mines, both US and foreign, as well as anti-handling devices and improvised devices. Not a single one was activated by someone stepping off a mine after stepping on it. In every case, the mine detonates immediately after being activated. And, as you pointed out, the only exceptions are mines like the German S-mine and US M-16 mine that work on a time delay so they can "bounce" and explode after the soldier has passed.
As an EOD instructor and someone who has trained mine awareness trainers I can certify that this is a pervasive myth. At least one person in every class asks the question “what do we do if we step on a mine”? I use the Blackadder clip at this point…recently I’ve added the clip from ‘Generation War’ that shows the myth, plus an extract from ‘Kajaki’ which shows what really happens. One thing about the Hollywood Mine though, it occasionally flushes out the odd Walter Mitty* who regales you with his “once in Vietnam my buddy…we put a bayonet…” story. Oh no you didn’t… * Stolen Valor to our American friends
I love the scene in tropic thunder where they first land and the director walks on a landmine. It is one of the greatest depictions I have ever seen of how they function. And it’s terrifying.
@@igotes You mean those that some people love to complain about? Ye, but they're pretty unreliable in some cases. Here we had a movie rated at the age of 6 (granted nothing over the top extreme), but I'd still prefered to not watch it back when I was 6. For clarification: I live in germany, we have: 0, 6, 12, 16 and 18 and they sometimes are weirdly determined (e.g. A strategy game series with 3 entries received 12, 12 and 18 despite the 3rd game being the same as the first 2 for the most part). Oh, we also have "Not Rated", at which point games/movies are still allowed to be sold but same as "adult material" is not allowed to be advertized or allowed to be publicly in the store without the hurdle of verifying you're above the age of 18 prior, used to be quite fun to rent non-rated movies or games back in the day, especially when the store was full and you knew that people seeing you enter the other room were thinking you're going to rent something else out of there. Funnily enough that didn't really transfer into the digital age until fairly recently, when Steam started making games without a rating or specific adult content unavailable in germany (just in case because they got hit with different law suits for various reasons from other countries recently) - with you guessed it, people acting like it's something new and demanding the "censorship age rating system" to be gone. Man what a wall of text, but I had to vent that for some reason now, lol
Another myth is "Studded Leather" armor. Its from DnD, and is a misunderstanding of brigandine armor. But once it was invented by DnD, tons of games started copying this armor class. The irony is that studded leather is a "medium" armor in these games, when brigandine was some of the most heavy duty armor ever made.
@@DummyFace123 One of my mates tried a system with absorbing armour that also includes armour tear. Armour had a number of "uses", harder metal armour had more.
From personal experience in Afghanistan, the only time that you'll come back and tell a story about how you stepped on a landmine is if you stepped on an anti vehicle mine. They have pressure set weights of around 500 pounds and above. They definitely aren't wasting that much munitions In that landmine for one soldier.
To be fair though you dealt with modern mines or hand made bombs. Not disparaging your view in any way just saying humanity has made leaps and bounds in how to kill each other technology wise.
If I wanted to be _really_ mean, I could think of ways to deliberately exploit this false belief. Maybe a fuze with a really long delay (say, 10 seconds). When someone in a group steps on it and doesn't immediately die, they assume it works like the Hollywood mines do (or that it's a dud). That way, the mine explodes just as people are coming over to try and help. (This ruse would only work once or twice before people get wise and use the long delay to try and run for cover instead, which is when you start switching to fuzes with shorter delays, or even mixing the two types of fuzes together in the same minefield.)
Having spent time in some infantry and combat arms units, I can say VERY LITTLE training is done on mines, except how to look for signs of them. We never had any training on placing them, and only engineers or EOD would be tasked to remove them. This is a GREAT explanation of how they actually work. I think "booby trap" is a better way to describe "anti-handling" devices, although the former is clearly a more technical military term.
I mean it does make sense, avoidance is the only real way to deal with landmines without specialist training. There's not really anything more you can teach someone without giving them a full training in mineclearing that would be effective
Its not the common infantrys job to lay or clear mines, for that combat engineers exist. All the Infantry needs is a "first aid" course in how to avoid mines, how to get out of a mine field and how to mark found mines, not how to handle them
Former combat engineer, here. Got buddies that have spent time overseas helping to clear minefields post-conflict. I've never heard of nor seen an S mine or a release fused mine in the wild, and neither have they. Probably because it's overall a less efficient design based on cost and complexity of manufacture combined with negligible gain over standard designs. It's overcomplicating a thing without good reason.
I was surprised to find out that there are people who actually thought that mines go off on release of the fuse. I thought it was common knowledge that it was just a movie trope
Can you release a shorter, to the point version of this video please, for people who just stepped on a mine. Like, I just did, and came across this video while googling what to do. Instead I got a history lesson. Thanks.
Finally, someone decided to explain it in detail! I knew mines didn't work the way they do in movies, but I wasn't sure how wrong are they depicted exactly.
Despite never having thought about this issue critically, and despite being one of those people that used to think that was how landmines worked, the moment I read the title and thumbnail of this video, I immediately deduced that this was going to be about the "standing on the landmine" thing, and how that probably wasn't real. Really doesn't even make sense come to think of it. When I thought about it, I figured it worked similar to a grenade; you pull the pin, and you release the handle, which strikes a fuse, and begins the ignition process, leading to a boom a few seconds later. That's where the whole idea of "putting the pin back in the grenade" comes from; as long as you keep holding the handle, you can reinsert the pin and prevent the ignition, but once you throw it/drop it, the fuse is lit; you're done. I figured it would would similar to this, and I was right, as it turns out.
Land mines are just scary as hell Your marching through a field trying to keep your eyes on the ridge then all of a sudden “Click” In a blink of a eye your dead
This seems like another misconception. Most AP mines are designed to injure rather than kill. Step on one and you lose a foot but the chances of survival are fairly good. A tourniquet will cut the blood flow completely. In fact that is what happened to my great-grandfather in WWII.
eh...the only reason I could POSSIBLY imagine a mine like this being somewhat useful...is to cause a column to stop moving and focus on disarming a mine...thus making them stationary targets for weapons pre-targeted at the area...or a 'sitting duck' an ambush....though it STILL seems extremely unlikely that a military would even go through that effort
ok but maybe a scene in wich one soldier gets immediately blown up by a land mine, but the suspense comes from the other soldiers having to cross the field they now KNOW have dozens of mines.
Yup, it's nuts. Hollywood doesn't know on most subjects. Their theory is like cocking a gun, pulling the trigger, but the round doesn't go off till you recock the gun? Nah makes no sense cause it'd really be easy to defeat a mine if you only had to stand on it or prevent the trigger mechanism from rising again.
What makes you think they dont know? They are not making documentaries, they are making entertainment. Knowing how something really works is not relevant at all to knowing what is most entertaining. You do realize these movies and shows have professionals working on them to do effects right? You think these people have no idea how anything really works?
@Maibuwolf I think they sacrifice legitimacy for drama. And no, I don't think they know much else other than films and drama because Braveheart and other "historical" films that have wildly inaccurate imagery, battles, etc, all for drama but they're panning them off as homage to real events without ever caring about being factual to historical events. Fantasy over functionality.
@@Maibuwolfit's very bad argument, most people don't think too much about what they see in movies and don't have enough expertise to understand if something they see is wrong. So they just assume that things work like this in real life. Generally this is the reason why nobody knows basic things about medieval times for examples and just uses stereotypes from movies. And though I think that this is already pretty bad, mine myth can easily cause death, since around the world there is a lot of old mines still in the ground. And it would be fair to hold filmmakers accountable for this things
It’s really not a hard thing to imagine, landmines giving you time to tell your team/squad to move away so less people die wouldn’t make sense for a war scenario.
I imagine some guerrilla out there has built a pressure-release IED in their garage and may have even been inspired by the movies to do it, operating under the assumption that it makes a great weapon of terror.
Yeah I could possibly see it there, the delay for that purpose could even be useful since it potentially results in the sort of tense situation that news media are likely to show up and cover in real time. Which if your goal is to terrorise a population could indeed be considered a feature possibly even with the increased risk that this means it never goes off it would still at least be as good at causing disruption as just a plain old bomb threat. Albeit with extra drama that would probably get more media attention and spread fear more effectively.
I thought a cellphone-activated IED was closer to a command mine. Making your own fuse system in a garage is difficult in the already gnarly field of homemade explosives.
There's also one other detail. Hollywood writers may very well HAVE done research, including interviewing veterans, and as you point out, those veterans would have heard and possibly believed these rumors about how bouncing betty mines worked, and thus told the writers that.
a large majority of humans will never see a landmine or be close enough to one to need that knowledge. if we weren't nerds then it would be likely we would think like that too
I know of a mine that works like that. I served for 5 years in the Norwegian military in various roles. Now, where have I seen, planted, and stepped on these types of mine? Training exercises. We trained with a parter nation, and they used a type of repurposed mine, without explosives naturally. but with a blank inside. these had to be stepped on and of. step down released a safety pin, step up cleared the path for the plunger to hit the blank and it made a tiny pop sound and you would be called out for being fried.
I didn't know people thought land minds work like. I was conditioned to think they would go off under any amount of weight or force from Loony Toons. That one foghorn leghorn bit where he hits the ground with an open hand, it goes off, and it blew off all his feathers away. At least I did learn something new. They wouldn't go off under any amount of weight or force; they go off when more than 10lbs of pressure is applied all to 3 trigger prongs. Thank you for that insight.
"LANDMINES HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT TAKEN MY SPEECH TAKEN MY HEARING TAKEN MY ARMS TAKEN MY LEGS TAKEN MY SOUL LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!" - Metallica
Just a thought on the dual fuse anti vehicle land mine, it could be good for troop carriers, like trucks as well, the front tire rolls over it, then it goes off when one of the rear tires does next. This ensures it goes off under the troop section and not the engine and driver. Now the vehicle is disabled just as much, but you've dealt with a bunch of dudes instead of one or two.
basically the button goes down and thats connected to the pin, which hits explosives, triggering the explosives and KABLOOEY so no you couldn’t keep pressure the explosives would trigger anyway
I was a combat engineer in the Marines. It was literally (one of my) my (many) job(s) to know how to emplace and remove landmines. I've had people tell me to my face that I'm wrong when I've brought this up. The bouncing betty scene in behind enemy lines was the one that immediately comes to mind.
That being said, anyone that might have tested the "don't move when you step on a mine" theory probably didn't live long enough to tell anyone it didn't work.
Arguing with a combat engineer about how landmines work is crazy work
Army sapper here and yes you are 100% correct
Does anything help when you step on mine though?
P.S can y'all stop answering rhetorical question?
@@aisir3725 No. If it's in full working order, unless you're wearing MOJINAR Armor like Master Chief, you're going to be severly injured or dead.
Survival bias in the works here :)
As someone who's been standing on a landmine for the past 20 years, thanks for making this video, my legs are so tired.
20 years? Pfft! Rookie numbers! Try 40 years... my legs went numb long ago and look like they've have the worst kind of frostbite. 😂
Married huh? 😂
@@GidarGaming
You have LEGS?
PAH! What luxury, I replaced mine with two twigs from a pine tree after a nasty fall from an office chair.
The twigs were from the xmas tree, so now I sound like santa`s sleigh whenever I walk..
Bro… wha-
DUDE! Best Laugh I've had in the last 24 hours! You guys are HILARIOUS.🤣
8:31 This is common misinformation actually. The most common use for these kinds of devices is for securing various gold idols in temples to make sure they don't get stolen by archeologists
Ah you beat me to it, lol. I was gonna say they're used for Indiana Jones bait xD
😂😂
so they destroy the artifacts? Not saying you're wrong, but that sounds pretty dumb when you could booby trap in other ways that keep the artifact intact, while still killing or maiming the thief. Release of a deadly toxin vapour, Vietcong style impaler contraption, concealed machine gun rigged to fire when that pressure is released, using the same fuse but wiring it to an explosive device positioned away from the artifact, or whatever... just spitballing.
@@DJSykoOfficial
And the "I'm fun at parties" award goes to:
i was going to say the same thing, lol
The mine you are seeking is made by ACME. They also make 32 round submachine gun magazines that can hold unlimitted rounds unless its a crucial moment in the film, weapons with no recoil and everyday cars with bullet proofing only on the front doors. They are better known for making sky pianos and anvils.
And portable holes that you can just unroll or paint on to stuff to make tunnels and pits and other useful stuff; yeah, I watched way too much Wile E Coyote as a kid, meep meep.
Cars with a second and third reverse gears.
And bullets that will make a fireball explosion if it hit a car from behind.
Don't they also make those special propane tanks that explode if you shoot them?
The car front doors are made out of Plotium - a rare metal, the physical properties of which can change depending on the plot needs.
Nah, Worms taught me mines are proximity-based and will beep very loudly when you come near them, only exploding after several seconds to give you enough time to run to safety after alerting you of their presence and intent to explode.
Don't forget they usually have a LED red circle..
fallout taught me that.
Cyberpunk mines lol
@@DamienSmyth-v6k also they have a beamer that targets the eyes of people around it highlighting the direction of the mine... fun fact: grenades have those too
They're not as bad as the sheep bombs though, best device for wiping out your own side trust me I know.😂
Wait… you’re telling me movies lied to me for enhanced tension and drama?!?
This can't be true, movies are so much easier to watch than books are to read. I simply refuse to believe that movies aren't 100 percent accurate all the time.
Nothing is more intense and dramatic than real life. I recommend watching season 2 of Squid game. Their explanation of reloading, change type of fire, and the constant conversations regarding ammo, make it far more suspenseful and realistic than anything Hollywood has done in decades. Ironic that of all people, Americans can't get guns in film right.
"i procrastinated for 2 full years"
can't relate... these are rookie numbers.
Been procrastinating for almost 20. Get good, scrub.
Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well. ~Twain
I was gonna procrastinate this reply, but I'm weak.
"I've procrastinated my whole life!"
This video had a two year delay time.
Combat engineer here. About anti vehicle mines, it's true they aren't meant to go off with the weight of a person. However it's important that most mines you'll encounter in the world have likely been buried for decades and are extremely unpredictable. They could never work, or randomly detonate, or ..... Just keep your distance
I read an account of a battle in Italy, possibly in the Liri Valley, where a company was attacking across a road that turned out to be mined. A soldier looks briefly down the road as a dashed to the other side and sees his sergeant a couple hundred feet away. The sergeant tripped a Teller mine and the bottom half of his body vanished.
Either the antitank mine was defective or the running sergeant happened to stomp it with sufficient force.
Some anti Tank mines can be modified to set off at a lower weight though. Theres an yellow italian one for example, which lets you cut/remove some of the Bars Holding the pressure plate making it easier to detonate
I would not try a modern AT mine either. The fuses are quite varying and can be triggered by as little as 150kg of pressure in some of the mines.
While 150kg men don't generally make good soldiers, a soldier with heavy gear that's running may just be able to set one off if he gets lucky... or unlucky.
UXO is truly terrifying when not properly dealt with and dealt with quickly. Places like Ukraine are going to have areas polluted with the things for years to come even if the war stopped tomorrow. Add in the fact that you rarely have *just* landmines in an area but other UXO like cluster bomblets, grenades, etc and it gets quite nasty. There's a reason why nations in the modern day are supposed to keep good records on the use of such weapons (something Russia isn't doing). It is important for both the militaries to know for after the war but also NGOs involved in demining efforts and protecting civilians.
Yup, degrading explosives have a mind of thier own. Plenty of 1 legged & 1 armed children can attest to this.
clicked on the video thinking, "well ya never know when i might step on a landmine"
My family once dug up a training mortar in the yard. In Texas. You never know. Luckily it ended up being inert
On the "bright" side, even if you do you'll never know, given that "HE" means supersonic, and the speed of nerves and thinking and all that.
This is a daily reality in many parts of the world.
@@sophiagwen unfornately most victims of mines today are children and the mines do not kill they maim, so youll lose an arm , a leg or piece of it , or it will disfigure you, dying to a mine would be bliss
I once thought I had nearly tripped an IED in an abandoned building I was searching. I looked down at it and thought I was dead. Then realized it was just a broken alarm clock. Weird what the mind sees. I think I associated a clock with a bomb and in that split second equated the two. But definitely a situation where stopping an action might be enough to not trip the explosive, depending on how it was set up.
my guess is that survivorship bias always plays into it, imagine if someone steps on a mine, notices it but its a dud, now someone else will come and defuse it and you'd think it didn't detonate cause he kept staying on it, while if it weren't a dud it would've immediately exploded and then no one could verify if it exploded when stepped on or when the foot got lifted
Not a bad theory. But I think it's just Hollywood polluting peoples mine. When an actor steps on one and they stand there hoping it doesn't go off, it makes an intense drama filled scene. And it also makes the audience think what they would do in that situation and gets them engaged. That's why people think they work that like, hollywood
It makes it possible for the old guy with a death wish to sacrifice himself.
Interesting theory, but you can easily just check and see that mines are meant to immediately detonate when stepped on or within a few seconds.
@@CommonCentrist82 Who the heck checks *anything* anymore?
@@douggaudiosi14probably, Hollywood shows snipers using laser, supressors being whisper quite, thermal Imaging seeing through walls, unlimited magazines, body armor being much better than it should be or the opposite, etc
In Vietnam, my grandfather stepped on an S mine, luckily, as he said, "it bounced but it didn't Betty" the mine shot up but failed to detonate
I call cap. The mine has a charge which launches the "Betty". It would've blown gramps feet off
@@alexpivniouk8421 Because he was probably trained by the military to dive and hit the deck immediately or something rather than being informed by a Hollywood movie. Did you watch the video?
@@alexpivniouk8421 you can call "cap" all you like, defective ordinance isn't uncommon, especially 20+ year old ordinance in the jungle
@@kudosensei yes, and you clearly have issues reading. The first phase of the charge, which is what OP says was activated, would blow the man's foot off BEFORE he could react. Even if the second phase was a dud, the initial explosion would still take your foot off!
@@michaelmatthews2759 the details of your story don't make sense considering how an s mine works. Either you or your grandpa are lying in some way!
"And as you can imagine, viewers were very excited to learn something new.." 😂😂😂 Thats hillarious
I thought he was genuine for a minute :( I was excited to learn something new watching this video! Why must the internet be toxic.
I always heard that, should you tread on a mine, you're supposed to jump 200 ft in the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.
Captain Blackadder taught me that.
Outstanding soldier!😂
Ahhh, of course!!
What a spectacularly cunning plan. 🤔🤠😂🤣
Well ofcourse! It's much harder for the mine to target you, if you are all over the place.
The cool thing is if you're not good at it, the mine will help you out!
I'm sure Captain Blackbladder had too much rum.
I was standing not more than 10' away from a 9-year-old girl who stepped on a toe-popper in Bosnia. The blast was loud and she was blown into the air and her leg was gone below the knee. Blood tissue bones everywhere. The Turkish troops who's sector we were in sprang right into action they had her in a tourniquet and on a stretcher in less than 2 minutes and tossed her and her mother (They had to throw her in) into a vehicle to their HQ and the medics. I'll never forget her screaming.
As a medic myself, a screaming child is horrible, but a blessing in disguise. If an infant or child is silent there's more injury than an extremity.
@@Secret_Moonits all theatre. The winners will just say they did nothing wrong anyway
@@Secret_Moon they have banned mines, it's just not everyone signs the treaty
@@Secret_Moon war is such a desperate struggle that people are fighting to the death: there is no banning of anything that will hold in the face of the risks threatening to reach the decision-makers. "Soldiers dying is fine, but if we're maybe going to lose the war which could affect ME then we should modify our tactics to include things previously unthinkable."
@@Secret_Moon The '97 Ottawa convention prohibits anti-person mines.
The USA, Russia, China and a few others are not signatories.
Honestly it would be a terrifying and great surprise in a movie to have someone step on a mine and think they should keep standing on it and even have two guys argue about whether to or not, just for it to go off and suddenly the audience would be terrified and at this point it would begin to introduce more realistic mines to them, but because audiences are so used to the mine tropes, it really would come as a surprise.
Not a bad idea. Honestly really having some more realism like that in a war movie might make watching it a bit more enjoyable.
But I'm sure some people, given the myth, would purposefully design a few mines like that just to mess with the enemy...
It also would make logical sense. Old explosives can very often take a long time to ignite. It's why if you're shooting old milsurp ammo and a round doesn't go off, you're supposed to wait several minutes before extracting it just in case it goes off late
Honestly, I'd enjoy this.
@@GidarGaming Agreed, altho it's not necessary to make that for me to watch them more often.
I watch a movie which in pretty much every case is an action movie that at best depicts war as brutal and pointless, not necessarily because everything is realistic.
They're for entertainment primarily and I don't think any different of them than if I'd watch a James Bond movie, a Die Hard movie or Mission Impossible tbh.
But a mine that blows everyone up (well, or rather injures the ones standing next to the guy who stepped on it who at that point bleeds out due to... you know, loosing his lower body) while discussing if to stay on it or jump off it would certainly be a good jumpscare that comes unexpected.
"Misinformation left unchecked becomes information." -Paul Harrell
Rest in peace.
information that could kill
Which is why it’s so worrying that people are trusting AI to do research for them when it has been proven to give incorrect information (at times)
@@TheeKittyPiewhat's funny about you saying this, is that the quote in question by the original commenter is not real
Like Christopher Columbus.
For a film, if a mine just exploded like they are supposed to, you wouldn't get those moments after where we grapple with the concept of the "practically dead" or quantum dead, sure, they are for all intents and purposes alive at that time, but as soon as they move, they're dead, so they might as well be dead already. This gives the 'dead' character a moment to wax philosophical while the others get the chance to say goodbye or panic, and draw the emotions of the moment out.
If you're watching a completely realistic tragedy, you'd have a character remark, "Don't move! It'll only explode if you-" then gets cut off by the explosion. The tragedy is that the expectation of having that "last opportunity" to be with that character is cut off abruptly by reality.
But the real fear comes after someone triggers one. You are now in a massive psychological quandary. How far into the field are you? And which step will be your last one on two legs?
Actually the real question is why are you still alive?
The biggest mistake hollywood makes is not understanding the purpose of mines fields. They are to deny useful land to the enemy and funnel them into a killing zone, and you never leave one unattended. So if you are traversing a minefield then your already under attack, you can either probe for mines or dodge machine gun fire, doing both is a real feat.
An australian general ordered the construction of an 11 km barrier during the vietnam war. 20,000 M16 mines were planted and 13 sappers were killed in the process. There is no way you can monitor an area that great, so not long after it was made charlie moved in and lifted most of them. Apparently most of the explosive booby traps that killed allied soldiers used those mines.
It is the first lesson taught to new sappers.
That's how Kenny Johnson dies in Sons of Anarchy. While laying seige to some rival biker dooshb3gs, he steps on a landmine, cut to closeup of his face as he says, "you've gotta be f333'n kidding me." BOOM!
if they worked like that couldn't you just slide something under your foot to keep it pushed as you walk away?
It is what I call "skill issue"
@@andrealasorte7747 maybe theoretically, but the “something” would have to weigh about as much as an adult person and still be thin enough to slide under your foot without removing the pressure.
As a veterinary nurse, I feel your pain. Try telling people that defibrillators aren't for flatlining people. That you can't staple an abdomen shut (Prometheus). Or the favourite: Dominance in dogs is not a thing.
What do you mean by dominance in dogs isnt a thing? Youre a vet nurse?
@katzenkampf Thank you for proving my point.
Yes I am a veterinary nurse, with an interest in behaviour, and I have worked in the industry for 18 years, and have a BSc(Hons) degree which included behavioural studies.
Dominance in dogs isn't a thing. The theory has been disproven since at least the 1990s, but is so pervasive that it is very difficult to get the general population to accept it. The theory was based on an incredibly flawed study of captive wolves back in the 1930s, and is in no way applicable to domestic dogs - whose behaviour is significantly different.
Your dog is not trying to fight with you to be the alpha, there are other reasons for the behaviour you are seeing. There is plenty of scientific evidence for this available. Any behaviourist or trainer who has had formal scientific based training will confirm this.
@@herstoryanimated i guess im never gonna beileve you, ive seen dogs and cats make a hierarchy and have dominance over each other and sometimes their owners. What other reason does a pet have for stealing food or marking their territory if it aint for dominance?
@katzenkampf Marking their territory is normally sexual in nature, but can also occur from a fear/insecurity base.
There may be a form of hierarchy between the pets but it is usually very fluid (not a fixed dominance system), and comes from more of a resource guarding base - than I'm the alpha/leader and you just submit to me. Think of it more as one pet saying I want this food more than you so I'm going to push through first, and the second wanting to avoid confrontation so may hang back.
For the love of God don't start bringing cats into it.
@@katzenkampf bro this is 3 minutes of googling to correct type stuff, listen to the vet. As a person with 3 dogs, they really aren't like that and there are plenty of very well made educational videos built to break up this myth. Also yes cats and dogs will fight for territory somtimes. If your dog is stealing food from your other dog its not some dominance bs its the exact same way i steal food from my siblings, pettiness.
One of my dad's jobs in Vietnam was to go into a minefield if one of their men had stepped onto a landmine to "pick up what was left for the family to bury" as he put it, because he was small and lightweight, so the Marines thought he'd be less likely to trigger additional landmines. Even if he did step on one, his commanders said it'd be easier to pull him off quickly (the yank-off-with-a-truck method you mentioned). The fact that his own commanders were telling the enlisted this lie about "keep standing on it" is just vile, as if the landmine blew up 4 seconds later, they could say "He must have let up pressure" and shift blame of the death onto the soldier who never stood a chance to begin with.
I guess that depends how much confidence you have in the competence of officers.
The soldier knows that if you step ON the landmine it explodes. Don't be silly
I AM NOT a soldier, and I DO NOT need any special training or knowledge in any form of engineering, explosives expertise, or any other knowledge for that matter, to KNOW, beyond a SHADOW of a doubt, that survivability bugs aren't designed purposefully into killing machines
It would be like being a soldier and then your commander tells you that every fourth bullet out of a machine gun is made of cotton candy
I am not military and cannot speak from experience, but I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing is a lie told to grunts to give them a sense of control over the horrifying realities of war. If they think they can control when a landmine explodes if they're just careful enough, they're more willing to obey an order to walk into a mined area.
Hopefully this isn't something that modern, civilized militaries do but I would suspect its something that militaries less concerned about casualties are happy to do.
Back in the 70's one of my neighbors encountered an S type mine in Vietnam and it went off while he was standing on it. The force knocked him backwards, removed half his foot and lightly peppered him, but most of the balls went above him. Unfortunately, a man near him was killed.
Did they manage to reattach the balls later?
@@VikingTeddy i read it like this at first too, unfortunately..
not uncommon for the guy steping on its only majory injury is the mine and charge actuly going through thier foot rather then then shrapnel payloadwho normally gets anyone standing near them
@VikingTeddy You're killing me.😂
A similar thing happened to my father in Germany. He stepped on a mine and one foot was shattered, but he survived, while the two men beside him were killed.
Weird... I don't watch war movies often at all so I hadn't ever picked up on this common myth. I always just assumed stepping on a landmine meant you were screwed. The end. Just doesn't make any sense to give someone a chance to escape being blown up
Lol same. Never seen a single war movie so I never knew would have assumed people believed this about mines, figured they immediately activated once you stepped on it. Still pretty interesting though.
I always assumed that it's (obviously) for the dramatic effect.
But at the same time I just thought to myself that it's not unrealistic to have some like those in the field, especially when they're being used as part of a funnel that's overwatched or just simply to make troops more insecure about what's going to happen.
Especially in overwatch situations it'd be by far worse than any conventional mine where you just come under fire but don't know how far you're in the field itself, no - by far worse as you not only don't know how far you're in the field, but you also can just delay fire entirely until they start to try out a solution to help the other person off of it delaying their reaction time by even more as fear has not only taken over but them being busy on top.
My Uncle went ashore at Normandy on June 7th. His recollection of German S-mines was "Inconsistent, but not in a won't explode way". When they were learning about them they were told the 4 or 5 seconds before it bounced. Some exploded instantly, some took one or two seconds longer, some just exploded without bouncing. His first experience was with the latter, when a member of his platoon stepped on one and "vanished, except for his left boot- which is all we sent home".
At least he talked about it. My great uncles, one was a paratrooper in Germany one ended up in Singapore, neither of them were ever in a state to say what happened.
Nobody ever really wanted to talk about the uncle who fought the Japs, except to say the poor fucker was the only survivor in his unit and the way England built its regiments at the time he'd gone to school with all of the other members, so had to go around telling everyone's parents how their sons died. After that he was pretty much insane.
The paratrooper had bad spells and would wake up in the night sweating, later in life he nearly killed a nurse thinking she was a Jerry.
Sounds like quality control issues, sometimes the fuse failed, sometimes the spring, sometimes both
@@richarddavis2605 it's common that delay elements fail in a non-delay manner. When you get cracking in the delay element, it propagates much faster than it should.
@@richarddavis2605could have been slave labor Sabotage.
@@paulsaccani1115This is why soldiers are always told to never 'cook' grenades like in movies and games. Even modern hand grenades don't have truly consistent fuses.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician here. As with most dudes who have input their experience I'm glad someone like you can spread the truth to a significantly larger casual audience than most guys who did the work in real life.
I remember in EOD school when we were going over landmines, we quickly dispelled the idea of the "Hollywood" landmine, which functions on a "pressure-release" system in many movies and shows. It would make no sense for a landmine to detonate after the plunger is released because it is now up to chance for it to hit who it needs to hit. Since a majority of landmines are what we consider "blast" mines (meaning they are full of HE with no other purpose other than to harass/maim/kill) it would only make sense for them to go off when the pressure plate/plunger receives... well... pressure.
Fun Fact: Anti-tank landmines are usually seen as super dangerous. But you have to think that this thing is targeting a 1-3 ton vehicle, WHY would you want it to go off if Joe Schmo accidentally walks over it when he goes to take a piss? AT mines are actually safer than APERS mines in terms of sensitivity, just don't think because of that you should kick them around like that video of Ukranians kicking them off of a road.
funny enough one of the comments mentioned a Yugoslavian PM-2 mine and it’s one of the movies that encouraged the misconception he shows. I remember that scene, pretty good Owen Wilson movie
Seems like every professional school has to first tell students "No, Hollywood is full of shit."
My personal favorite being people who decide to major in Criminal Forensics and then leave immediately when they learn "No, CSI isn't remotely accurate. You're largely just running tests in a lab. You're DEFINITELY never going to arrest someone yourself."
"I remember in EOD school when we were going over landmines"
Doesn't sound very safe
@@agar322 Haha technically there's no better way to take care of a mine or item than getting right on top of it. That's what makes people think we're crazy.
@@MurasakiTsukimaruevery school should warn students, that Hollywood, TV and internet are full of $hit
If you thought the puns in this video were bad, just wait til you see mine.
Take my like and get out of my house.
"Where you only see one man, I see four"
with beard, you look like an insane 250 pound marine
without beard, you look like a drafted 120 pound army grunt
This is scarily accurate what the hell
Yup!!!!
Enlisted vs drafted lmao
@@Halozocker104 More like volunteer vs. drafted since enlisted refers to your rank status, as in enlisted vs. officer.
Yup
15:24 To be honest your face does give the same vibes as the characters who say things like “I’m gonna propose to my girlfriend after we get home!”
No but honestly, just a character like that makes it like 3/4 of the movie. All saying everything about the baby and his wife. And then in one supposedly relaxing scene he just blows up. Nothing else, just gone.
Truly a gruesome reality of war
@@eelkesneijders6180 why’d my first thought go to fma
Haha bro has no arguments left against pressure release mines, so instead, he resorts to personal attacks based on his own insecurities. Nice one buddy. You told us more about yourself than you did about him. 😅 if you reply to this comment with a smart, snarky stab, you’ll only further the proof. 🤷♂️
@@owenjenkinsofficialWhy is this harmless comment a personal attack though? Unless you're the kind of person who doesn't believe in jokes
@@owenjenkinsofficialI think you are purposely disregarding the context of the comment. The timestamp is right after the joke in the video for the guy to be casted in a Hollywood movie as the guy who gets blown up by a land mine. With that context I think the comment is saying that he would fit the stereotypical look of such a character
11:05 Imagine stepping on an anti-handling device, and finding a note next to it which reads “Yeah, we’re out of land mines, so would you be so kind to pull the pin, and wait about 40 minutes? Thanks, appreciate it!”
I love how he’s very polite about dissing the hell out of people
The best part is he’s just talking about factual history and the only people ‘dissed’ are just incorrect so the politeness is even more strong
Speaking FACT is not "dissing" people. Facts don't care about your feelings...
I truly trust everything that he says
While almost never blinking. Jesus it's freaky
@ffjsb yeah he isn't disrespecting anyone just spittin facts
I hate how people can believe something that is NOT true, then defend it without ever actually looking it up. Smoothest of brains.
I'm certainly not going to claim that this is solely a Progressive trait, but they've certainly created a whole new niche for delusional beliefs hysterically defended and maintained.
Why would you look somerhing up, that you think is true?
@xaxas736 To provide *proof* to someone else.
And especially something so banal. Like, certainly there's some dread in grappling with the fact that you might have been wrong about something that you've based a lot of your other beliefs and behaviours on, but what do you lose in admitting you were misled about how a weapon you've never used or encountered works?
@@TetanusSnowfall That's the new world order. People are taught they have a right to be right. When told it ain't true, well that person or their source must be a [other side of political spectrum]-wing/ist conspiracy nut.
I've ALWAYS been under the impression that the fact the land mines in these movies didn't ALREADY go off is sheer dumb luck/by accident, but any further movement may still set off the now-quasi-set-off Schrödinger's land mine.
In this case, it's even MORE terrifying, as actually, whatever accidentally kept the land mine from *already blowing up* (some tiny twig caught in a mechanism? some tiny bit of rust that built up that's just barely jamming the gears or whatever?) might just stop working at any time, meaning the mine could actually explode ANY SECOND without ANY FURTHER INPUT of movement.
12:10 The double impulse mine: A relative of mine was in the army and he was in that first vehicle. He survived, but the ones on the second vehicle all died. It's been almost 20 years since then. He's retired now and still with us. Very tough thing to live through.
That's rough on anybody to have people die around you, but your pals, friends... Brothers in arms. That can devastate a man. Even if you somehow soldier through it, it's always there. That's just another lasting consequence of war we don't like to talk about.
@@tomaszwota1465 double impulse mines are one of the worst things tho.
not only do you know that you barely survived while your friends died, you also know precisely that you pretty much killed them as they were following your tracks and you armed their demise.
@Unknown_Genius that's wrong though. You didn't kill them. Whoever laid the mine did.
@ that's true, but it still lingers on you regardless as you had to drive over it to get them killed.
To design a mine that only detonates if someone steps on and then of would be stupid, and rather pointless
It'd also be pretty hard and overcomplicated I'd imagine
@@kerosene143 No there was a french mine that activated when you stepped off. It was rare.
@@teru797 Hard to manufacture I mean, obviously not impossible, but alot of effort would be put into the whole stepped off thing.
@@teru797 You sure about that?
@@teru797 good lord, thats the internet in a nutshell. there is always somebody questioning the truth, the experience and also the whole universe, because there was sometimes something different than the proven design. its like stating that the german flew flying wing airplanes trough the war, because some brothers had glued some prototypes together in their shed.
Dude, the french maybe lost the war because they had stupid mine designs. 🤣
Ironic. So many films and shows teaching people to not step off mines when in reality you only have a few precious seconds to get as far away as possible
At best a few precious seconds. Your best bet is just taking a full force dive immediately, as quickly away as possible while making yourself as small as possible. If that didn't work nothing would've worked.
Hello, retired Canadian combat engineer here. Your explanations are right on.
The fear and psychological impact that anti-personnel mines created is part of the reason for the myth. Even recently, when I had to teach mine awareness classes to non-combat arms support personnel, before a deployment, I had to destroy the myth.
Good videos, you can clearly see the research you’ve done.
Sometimes people will ask purposefully stupid questions to get the instructor talking, in order to 'show engagement' without having to actually think about what they are told. It is stupid but is done enough because it works.
Humans are fearful creatures that try to generate explanations when information is missing. That is to say, we are just big versions of Skinner Pigeons. Just adding a random timer/unknown factor to when a mine will detonate is bound to generate some myth of this nature.
You now have a great video to show them!
Arguably the best depiction of a landmine was in Tropic Thunder when the director Damien Cockburn steps on an old French landmine and get blown to pieces. We don't know if it was a pressure release mine but it can be argued that it was a pressure-detonate mine that had a delay due to it being old and in the elements for 60 years.
Almost all land mines (by most countries) are either pressure detonated, or toggle detonated (toggles work great in an area with tall grass, or for light-skin vehicles). And yes: Tropic Thunder was fairly accurate in that.
Afghanistan is filled with abandoned minefields like that. That happens all the time over there.
also the delay was necessary for the comedic timing of him going "oh" before exploding into chunks
why did this make me think the actual director actually exploded (ive never seen said movie before)
Another good depiction of mines, trip wire ones specifically, was in one of the Episodes of Dusty faces, where Soviet POMZ mines (I think) are hidden behind the trees and go off the moment someone touches the wire.
That's not how delay's work. That would be a malfunction. Delay's are intentional and usually part of an anti-handling device.
A mine that will go off on a second trigger just to give a false sense of security to the vehicles behind it’s so fucking terrifying.
This was part of the Belgian army field training: "anti-personnel mines don't work like in the movies! -if you think you've stepped on one and you live long enough to realise this, yell MINE, try to run a few steps forward and hit the dirt."
1:00 as some one who understands logic yeah i would design a ladmine that explodes right away rather than after aspecialy when you understand how tanks work
yeah like isn’t it obvious
... especially*
@matheuscabral9618I could think of ways that mines that explode when you step off them could actually increase casualties. The feedback when stepping on one would have to be robust to make sure the person stepping on it knew that he had and would freeze.
I would see such a mine being especially devious as part of an ambush. The enemy unit would probably lose a lot of time trying to figure out what to do and whether they should leave their man behind or what have you.
"Please don't step on a land mine"
Great advice, I hope I can detect it sooner.
I lived in Okinawa in 1965, only 20 years after the great war. A group of us military dependents found what looked like an inverted bucket with a "periscope" under a bridge and hauled it up. Although we eventually called Unexploded Ordnance Removal, we played around with it and even dented the periscope part. It turned out the device was a Japanese anti-tank mine which blew up as they were about to explode it themselves. No one was hurt and, thankfully, I am still alive today as a 70-year-old.
Thank God.
Guess that shows that it really needed some pressure to be set off. Guess it'd have been a different story if the mine had been very old as then it might've been easier to set off than it'd be intended to do.
The Great War was world war 1 not world war 2.
Are you american? Or the enemy?
@@douggaudiosi14 From the landmine's point of view, anyone is the enemy.
Just thinking about it, the explosion on stepping off would make for a more complicated trigger and one that gives victims some chance of escaping. At the very least it gives people nearby time to get to safety. Who would design a mine like that?
But for movies this is a good source of drama, so makes sense for them to portray a mine like that. Maybe based on a story of a malfunctioning mine that didn't go off immediately
It's one of those right tools for the right job sort of a thing. It all depends on what you're wanting to do with those explosives. It's less than ideal to have people walking over your minefield and having to worry about safely resetting things. Which is part of why minefields are sometimes labeled as such. The point of the minefield is often just to discourage people from taking that path.
I don't know about a trigger for stepping off, but a few second delay makes sense for that type of landmine, so that the victim has time to step off of it. The first charge that launches it up is there because the shrapnel will hit a wider area if the mine is up in the air, and it has to be a small enough charge not to set off the rest of the mine. This means that if the victim is still standing on it when it goes off, it may not launch up properly, and is less likely to hit the victim's squadmates. It occurs that this could also be a less benevolent reason why the myth of standing on a mine to avoid setting it off was perpetuated. The guy that stepped on it is doomed, but he might save lives by staying on top of it and yelling out to his squad that he stepped on a mine.
the only conceivable reason you'd want that is for something like a bouncing betty, where the soldier being off the mine means their body won't block it flying up into the air, but a 4.5s fuse is far simpler and does the job just as well so it is again unnecessary even in the best case scenario
To answer your question as to who would design a mine that goes off when pressure is released, the answer, a very insidious person.
Lets say you're storming the beach, high pressure high intensity situation, couple of lads go up in a poof of sand and reddish smear. Oh, they stepped on a mine.
Fighting calms down, enemy retreats, you're a few miles inland when you hear a *click*. It doesn't go off, the fear, uncertainty, and tension are there for you and everyone else. Luckily you got your friends to help you which they do.
Some more walking, the occasional bit of fighting, but now a period of calm again. You're walking through the fields, *click*, *boom*.
That's the fear of not knowing.
Same people who make grenades to maim instead of kill. The point of mines isn’t to eliminate the enemy, it’s area denial.
1:06 “so what did I do? I procrastinated for two whole years.” Is so real 😂
The movie to watch for land mines is the 2015 LAND OF MINE, about young Germans ordered to remove 1 million mines on the coast of Norway, after the war ended.
correction the coast of Denmark
Oh boy, that one was gut wrenching
@@johnbarnett7092 German soldiers were also required to "clean" minefields in Norway after the war (as they should). Several died as a result.
Mein
@@MaCabaret I'm pissed that made me laugh
Ex army engineer here. I am impressed at your homework commitment. You are the first one i have ever heard or seen talking about the double impulse fuse in a antitank/vehicle mine. You could actually take the fuse out and use up the "first impulse" by use of a tool called the "Nut Cracker" when i was in the the mob. I was never really happy with the concept of doing so with a live fuse and thankfully never had to. Another of many variants is the tilt fuse, it will operate under pressure, however a thin carbon rod is sticking up. Usually used in long grass, so if a tank tracks were to actually bridge over the mine, the belly plate would tilt the rod and boom. Might not be a K Kill, but the crew will be very unhappy.
15:00 - I'm just imagining a scene in a black comedy war film where a character stands on a landmine, says a whole thing about how it'll only explode once he steps off, and that he needs to dive in a specific way to ensure he survives. He then dives off of the mine he stepped on, only to land on another mine, which explodes normally.
The first mine was a dud 😂
Even better: The first mine was actually just a slightly buried soda can that crunched under his boot.
If it were a Monty Python black comedy, the guy would explode spontaneously upon hitting the ground... no second mine needed
I believe double impulse anti tank mines are used to defeat mine rollers set in front of a tank to clear the mines before they can explode under a tank
indeed, Other approaches include remote (manually) detonated mines, and mine stacking, ie two antitank mines on top of eachother, can sometimes even destroy mineclearing equipment
Not sure that's ever been made. I have seen setups where the enemy anticipate the likely movement of a clearance vehicle and have a set up where the flail hits an initiator, then det cord connects with a large charge under where the clearance vehicle is expected to be. Unfortunately quite effective in Afghanistan against humanitarian deminers in the nineties.
@@paulsaccani1115 That may work with rollers, but very unreliable with flails.
Its not just movies, had to read a book called "boy overboard" in primary school. A large part of the plot hinges on a landmine not exploding while someone kept standing on it.
I read that too! If I remember correctly though, wasn't it a dud? Chances are the author didn't know that's not how landmines work due to the country he was in, or perhaps still believed it when writing the book?
@myknifeurlife444 i remember this too, it was a dud. i believe it was the protagonist's little sister that stood on the mine, and after a while of standing on it she eventually got so freaked out she stepped off of it. what a nostalgic throwback.
a new movie called "Canary Black" is a perfect example of this myth, when Kate Beckinsale steps on a bouncing betty, and then doesn't move. Another horrible myth is how long it takes for a hand grenade to detonate. Most movies allow way too much time before they explode.
the music at 3:35 makes me feel like an australian man is about to start screaming at me about nuggety cars
That's pretty dank ngl
To be honest the lack of delay is in my opinion far more terrifying, mines are horrific and delay or not, I don’t ever want to encounter one. Great video!
Had me at 0:45 when he said, "stepping on vs. stepping off. You put it that way it makes so much sense.
Just from an engineering perspective that wouldnt really make sense anyways for anti personnel mines. If you want to trigger it when it returns to the default position after being pressed, that means you need to have a sensor that detects it being pressed, which could then simply trigger the explosive, but rather than that you would add additional logic and points of failure, by adding a second sensor which would then have to be able to detect that it returned to its original position, to then trigger the explosive. This would just make mines more expensive, complex, more likely to fail and in no way more effective at what they are doing.
You cxould have a simple spring-loaded mechanical catch that pops an insulating plate aside when the mine is depressed, thus baring a metal contact which touches an opposite contact when the mine is released thus creating a current which detonates the mine.
@ still, it would be simpler and make for a more effective weapon if it triggered on the first disturbance
13:17 Aaaannnnd now you're on a list.
"This video is sponsored by NordVPN"
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Kelly’s Heroes, a comedy/drama in 1970 starring Clint Eastwood accurately shows them walking into a mine field and someone walks and instantly dies on a mine. A movie about stealing Nazi gold was more accurate then the “Don’t move on a mine” myth 😂
That movie also accurately displayed that many a GI looted France, like the captain stealing the boat. They were still liberators, but plundering is a thing that soldiers do.
wait a MINUTE! are you seriously trying to say, that Kelly's Heroes wasn't a documentary ? :)
@@brianbalster3521 negative waves... ALWAYS WITH THE NEGATIVE WAVES
Great movie. Best dialog in the movie was when Don Rickles' character announces that he found a mine, and it's asked, "What kind is it?"
@@Dan_Gleebalz The kind that blows up! How the hell do I know what kind it is?
In one of the WWII war memoirs I read, either Eugene Sledge or RV Burgin, there was an interesting part where they recalled new troops fighting in their first battle would take grenades out of the cases they came in, remove the packing strip and toss at the enemy, and the enemy would simply pick them up and remove the pin and use against them.
Great vid :)
I did German Pionier (combat engineer) back in the day, and read up on all the period mines. The Germans did indeed have an extensive catalogue of igniters for their mines. BTW, the S-Mine could also be fitted with a pull igniter that could be hooked up to tripwire, single or double headed. Most mines could also be fitted with pull igniters on the bottom, which could be anchored below the mine, and when pulled it goes off... another form of anti-lifting device.
Mines are insidious.
Thanks for the input. Are these pull igniters designed to simply make it much harder to defuze the mines?
Also, do you know how effective these S-mines were in actually killing soilders, as I could imagine that these steel balls, if the enemy doesn't get hit in a vital organ, wouldn't do enough damage to kill the person, but would still need medical assistance because they would be quite injured? What was their real effective range and what is the effective range of most anti personel and tank mines today?
@@StarWarsExpert_ Yes it's to make it more difficult to clear a path through a minefield. Also engineers are specialized troops, there aren't THAT many of them hanging around so losing a few actually hurts. However generally, you wouldn't clear a minefield by pulling out random enemy mines with no knowledge of whether they have anti-tampering devices in the first place. You'd blow them up in place.
The problem is if you're trying to silently open a gap for armor or troops to sneak through unnoticed. Then you'll just have to take it very slowly and try to dig around the mine to see if it's safe to remove before doing so.
I can't say anything about S mines, but AP mines are not intended to kill. If you kill a man you take one man out of action. If you severely injure him, he's out along with the 2 men that have to evacuate him. Also strains medical and other resources for the enemy.
Answering questions about the range of mines is practically impossible because there are so many in various sized and with different purposes. Thousands if not tens of thousands of different types probably exist in the world. Pressure activated mines, tripwire mines, shaped charge mines, magnetic mines, vibration triggered mines, radio signal activated mines, manually triggered mines, claymores and an endless list of others.
Most of the "civilized world" has banned the usage of AP mines through the Ottawa treaty. Not nations like the US or Russia but practically all of Europe doesn't use them anymore. Probably subject to change after Russia's recent actions but I digress.
While some AP mines are so small they won't even blow your foot off if you step on them, most can probably be compared to a hand grenade in effectiveness. Not all AP mines are buried in the ground though, some are like the tripwire ones I mentioned and can be a steel tube with explosives in it and strapped to a tree. When you pull the tripwire the fuse detonates and the steel tube turns into shrapnel that is potentially deadly to anything within 20-30 meters. Then there are the claymores that are much more directional and shoot out steel balls in an arc in front of it. They can be different sizes which changes the answer. Could be lethal anywhere between 20 and 60 meters perhaps depending on the variant.
Anti-tank mines don't have much of a range for obvious reasons. Has to be close up to knock out a huge steel monster. There are tons of different types here too. Magnetic mines that punch a jet through the bottom of the tank when it drives over it, standard pressure activated mines that are just a block of explosives with a fuse that triggers when a vehicle drives directly over it with tracks or wheels, shaped charge mines that can be positioned next to the road and triggered when a vehicle drives past in order to punch through the weaker side armor etc. There are even some AT mines these days that will jump up, aim themselves towards the very weakly armored top of a tank and punch through it from above.
Anyway, the most common and most simple AT mines are the ones that just have a pressure plate and fuse which explodes when directly driven over and enough weight is applied. They don't have a "range" per say, they don't have shrapnel, they just blow the tracks off a tank to immobilize it. Usually they consist of around 7-10kg of TNT. It's highly unlikely to destroy a tank outright or kill the crew, though we've certainly seen Russian tanks have the ability to self-detonate from practically anything. However it's another bit of movie myth that a tank drives over a mine and just explodes. In reality it will just lose its track and be unable to move and the crew will abandon the tank.
The general rule for these mines is to space them out by 5 meters so that if one mine goes off, it doesn't create a chain reaction. The blast and flying rocks and pieces of metal would probably kill or injure any infantry within a handful of meters but that is not their purpose.
@@StarWarsExpert_ well yes, pull igniters used as a booby trap are there to kill the impatient or oblivious mine clearers.
S-mines had an effective lethal burst radius (the ball bearings) of about 20m, so the closer you were to it, the more damage of course. As WWW stated in the vid, sometimes damage could be reduced or avoided by diving to the ground since the blast more or less radiated sideways.
Mine-warfare is insidious. I read about how some miners would put anti-personnel mines into a ditch close to a anti-tank mine so that when de-miner goes to that ditch to pull the anti-tank mine off, he would set off the anti-personnel mine. So it would slow the tanks requiring expert de-miner but when he blows up, they need to replace him and slow the progress even more.
Oh mine warfare is far more insidious than that too. Give an engineer enough time to mine and prepare an area and any enemies that wander in there will wish they were in hell.
Let's give a hypothetical scenario of how we could set things up. In the east of the country where our only likely enemy would arrive, it's mostly wilderness and deep forest with single roads flanked by trees and lakes. You have nowhere to go but the one road.
We could start off with magnetic AT mines in the middle of the road. They can be programmed to "count" how many large metallic objects pass over them so you could for example set that it allows 3 tanks to pass and then explodes for the 4th. The 3 tanks ahead can no longer reverse because there's a burning tank behind them blocking the road and they can't get off the road since it's flanked by impenetrable forest. Only way to go is forward, where you'll have more mines. They can't get any de-mining equipment up either because the road is blocked in the other direction as well.
Basically, they're stuck.
If they DO have a mine clearing vehicle at the front, that can still be countered with what we called an "HP charge". It's a 20kg block of TNT that you place below the 10kg AT mine, making it 3 times as powerful. This is designed to instantly destroy the mine-clearing equipment with a single mine.
Additionally the standard procedure when the column gets halted will be to dismount the infantry and have them spread out on the flanks into the forest.
Guess where the AP mines have been set up with that expectation.
All the while, infantry in ambush positions will be overlooking the minefield and striking with shoulder launched AT weapons, mortars and small arms fire the moment the column comes to a halt.
Then after a quick and violent ambush, you disengage before the enemy can get sorted or get support from other units.
I knew an immigrant from Burma ( Myanmar ) , he was out with 2 friends , one stepped a mine , he died , one lost a leg & the guy I knew lost an eye .
The microcontroller in the landmine is programmed with KEY_DOWN instead of KEY_UP.
I was an ARMY 12B. The scariest mine I ever dealt with was anything with a tilt rod. I only had to work with 2. I’d rather deal with disarming a mouse trap under a mine than mess with a rod.
As a platoon medic in an engineering platoon, I hear you. Those tilt rod mines are TERRIFYING! We had three "go off" during training. Obviously dummies, but I will never forget that ominous *CLICK!* and someone in the squad going "Fuck..." or "uh oh".
Had they been live mines, we'd all be dead. 12kg of TNT (anti tank mine) doesn't do nice things to nearby squishy humans.
@ we had a 45 primer in ours. Just a primer will make you soil yourself if you’re not expecting it.
Is that like a mercury tilt switch? Asking for a friend..
@ no. A till rod is a long rod that sticks straight up out of a fuze screwed into the top of an anti tank mine. I don’t know about anyone else’s setup, but US mines have a 15degree threshold. As soon as you pass 15 degrees the mine goes off. That rod adds a lot of mechanical advantage to the switch. So if you bump it wrong you’re getting identified by the dog tag in your boot laces.
7:19 Actually, the movie Mine doesn’t inaccurately portray a mine. The mine he stepped on was actually a tin can the locals placed.
That's crazy
if only he had seen this video, then maybe he wouldn't have stood there for three days or however long it was I forgot. Though come to think of it, that is a good example of how that misconception could actually harm people.
Yeah the whole premise of the movie is based off the misconception that if he stayed on the mine it wouldn't go off 😂
@@RussianBiasEnjoyer His buddy wouldn't have shot himself either.
These days, those are called IEDs
One thing to note about anti-handling devices is that they're also for effect. You only need to boobytrap say 1 in 10 mines or something like that. Now the enemy is forced to demine every single mine as if it may be boobytrapped.
THANK YOU!!!!
I was a US Army combat engineer and I learned about all sorts of mines, both US and foreign, as well as anti-handling devices and improvised devices.
Not a single one was activated by someone stepping off a mine after stepping on it. In every case, the mine detonates immediately after being activated. And, as you pointed out, the only exceptions are mines like the German S-mine and US M-16 mine that work on a time delay so they can "bounce" and explode after the soldier has passed.
As an EOD instructor and someone who has trained mine awareness trainers I can certify that this is a pervasive myth. At least one person in every class asks the question “what do we do if we step on a mine”?
I use the Blackadder clip at this point…recently I’ve added the clip from ‘Generation War’ that shows the myth, plus an extract from ‘Kajaki’ which shows what really happens.
One thing about the Hollywood Mine though, it occasionally flushes out the odd Walter Mitty* who regales you with his “once in Vietnam my buddy…we put a bayonet…” story.
Oh no you didn’t…
* Stolen Valor to our American friends
That was informatic for me,I also had the belief that this is suspicious for them to not blow up until you step off it.
I love the scene in tropic thunder where they first land and the director walks on a landmine. It is one of the greatest depictions I have ever seen of how they function.
And it’s terrifying.
That scene terrified me as a kid and it took me years to watch the rest of the movie because it scared me so much 😂
@@tommcdermott9875 If only there were some sort of rating system that would allow you to determine if a movie was suitable for children.
@@igotes You mean those that some people love to complain about?
Ye, but they're pretty unreliable in some cases. Here we had a movie rated at the age of 6 (granted nothing over the top extreme), but I'd still prefered to not watch it back when I was 6.
For clarification: I live in germany, we have: 0, 6, 12, 16 and 18 and they sometimes are weirdly determined (e.g. A strategy game series with 3 entries received 12, 12 and 18 despite the 3rd game being the same as the first 2 for the most part). Oh, we also have "Not Rated", at which point games/movies are still allowed to be sold but same as "adult material" is not allowed to be advertized or allowed to be publicly in the store without the hurdle of verifying you're above the age of 18 prior, used to be quite fun to rent non-rated movies or games back in the day, especially when the store was full and you knew that people seeing you enter the other room were thinking you're going to rent something else out of there. Funnily enough that didn't really transfer into the digital age until fairly recently, when Steam started making games without a rating or specific adult content unavailable in germany (just in case because they got hit with different law suits for various reasons from other countries recently) - with you guessed it, people acting like it's something new and demanding the "censorship age rating system" to be gone.
Man what a wall of text, but I had to vent that for some reason now, lol
Another myth is "Studded Leather" armor. Its from DnD, and is a misunderstanding of brigandine armor.
But once it was invented by DnD, tons of games started copying this armor class.
The irony is that studded leather is a "medium" armor in these games, when brigandine was some of the most heavy duty armor ever made.
Studded is always light, chain shirt was light in 3rd, and medium in 5th.
We usually equated it with a gambeson or buff coat or boiled leather etc.
Speaking of armour, people believe you can barely move in full plate
@@DummyFace123 One of my mates tried a system with absorbing armour that also includes armour tear. Armour had a number of "uses", harder metal armour had more.
Delete your ignorant bait comment.
What I was able to fully grasp after watching the entirety of this video (lie) is that the landmines were the friends we made along the way ❤️
From personal experience in Afghanistan, the only time that you'll come back and tell a story about how you stepped on a landmine is if you stepped on an anti vehicle mine.
They have pressure set weights of around 500 pounds and above. They definitely aren't wasting that much munitions In that landmine for one soldier.
To be fair though you dealt with modern mines or hand made bombs. Not disparaging your view in any way just saying humanity has made leaps and bounds in how to kill each other technology wise.
If I wanted to be _really_ mean, I could think of ways to deliberately exploit this false belief. Maybe a fuze with a really long delay (say, 10 seconds). When someone in a group steps on it and doesn't immediately die, they assume it works like the Hollywood mines do (or that it's a dud). That way, the mine explodes just as people are coming over to try and help. (This ruse would only work once or twice before people get wise and use the long delay to try and run for cover instead, which is when you start switching to fuzes with shorter delays, or even mixing the two types of fuzes together in the same minefield.)
2 People would die before it’s secret is uncovered and it becomes completely avoidable, try another villain plot
A full 15 minute video about the forbidden tuna cans.
Having spent time in some infantry and combat arms units, I can say VERY LITTLE training is done on mines, except how to look for signs of them. We never had any training on placing them, and only engineers or EOD would be tasked to remove them. This is a GREAT explanation of how they actually work. I think "booby trap" is a better way to describe "anti-handling" devices, although the former is clearly a more technical military term.
I mean it does make sense, avoidance is the only real way to deal with landmines without specialist training. There's not really anything more you can teach someone without giving them a full training in mineclearing that would be effective
Its not the common infantrys job to lay or clear mines, for that combat engineers exist. All the Infantry needs is a "first aid" course in how to avoid mines, how to get out of a mine field and how to mark found mines, not how to handle them
@@wolf310ii Evidently you didn't read what I posted, because I just said that...
Former combat engineer, here. Got buddies that have spent time overseas helping to clear minefields post-conflict. I've never heard of nor seen an S mine or a release fused mine in the wild, and neither have they. Probably because it's overall a less efficient design based on cost and complexity of manufacture combined with negligible gain over standard designs. It's overcomplicating a thing without good reason.
I was surprised to find out that there are people who actually thought that mines go off on release of the fuse. I thought it was common knowledge that it was just a movie trope
Can you release a shorter, to the point version of this video please, for people who just stepped on a mine. Like, I just did, and came across this video while googling what to do. Instead I got a history lesson. Thanks.
You have 4.5 seconds bud. Best of luck 🫡
@@WorldWarWisdom I'm gonna do the dive thing you suggested. I'll update this comment if it works.
We’ve lost another one. RIP 🫡
@@WorldWarWisdom 😂
@@kolossarthas Are you still alive bro?
7:35 That was a dud.
It’s tempting, but I’m going to re-fuse making a pun
Finally, someone decided to explain it in detail! I knew mines didn't work the way they do in movies, but I wasn't sure how wrong are they depicted exactly.
Despite never having thought about this issue critically, and despite being one of those people that used to think that was how landmines worked, the moment I read the title and thumbnail of this video, I immediately deduced that this was going to be about the "standing on the landmine" thing, and how that probably wasn't real. Really doesn't even make sense come to think of it. When I thought about it, I figured it worked similar to a grenade; you pull the pin, and you release the handle, which strikes a fuse, and begins the ignition process, leading to a boom a few seconds later. That's where the whole idea of "putting the pin back in the grenade" comes from; as long as you keep holding the handle, you can reinsert the pin and prevent the ignition, but once you throw it/drop it, the fuse is lit; you're done. I figured it would would similar to this, and I was right, as it turns out.
Land mines are just scary as hell
Your marching through a field trying to keep your eyes on the ridge then all of a sudden
“Click”
In a blink of a eye your dead
My dead what?
Sometimes.
I think that's merciful to anyone that is instantly gone, but less so for anyone who survived the blast yet dying due to missing body parts.
@@owlson2527 he meant you’re dead but still
This seems like another misconception. Most AP mines are designed to injure rather than kill. Step on one and you lose a foot but the chances of survival are fairly good. A tourniquet will cut the blood flow completely.
In fact that is what happened to my great-grandfather in WWII.
eh...the only reason I could POSSIBLY imagine a mine like this being somewhat useful...is to cause a column to stop moving and focus on disarming a mine...thus making them stationary targets for weapons pre-targeted at the area...or a 'sitting duck' an ambush....though it STILL seems extremely unlikely that a military would even go through that effort
ok but maybe a scene in wich one soldier gets immediately blown up by a land mine, but the suspense comes from the other soldiers having to cross the field they now KNOW have dozens of mines.
Yup, it's nuts. Hollywood doesn't know on most subjects. Their theory is like cocking a gun, pulling the trigger, but the round doesn't go off till you recock the gun? Nah makes no sense cause it'd really be easy to defeat a mine if you only had to stand on it or prevent the trigger mechanism from rising again.
Hollywood doesn't care about accuracy they care about drama.
What makes you think they dont know? They are not making documentaries, they are making entertainment. Knowing how something really works is not relevant at all to knowing what is most entertaining. You do realize these movies and shows have professionals working on them to do effects right? You think these people have no idea how anything really works?
@Maibuwolf I think they sacrifice legitimacy for drama. And no, I don't think they know much else other than films and drama because Braveheart and other "historical" films that have wildly inaccurate imagery, battles, etc, all for drama but they're panning them off as homage to real events without ever caring about being factual to historical events. Fantasy over functionality.
@@Maibuwolfit's very bad argument, most people don't think too much about what they see in movies and don't have enough expertise to understand if something they see is wrong. So they just assume that things work like this in real life. Generally this is the reason why nobody knows basic things about medieval times for examples and just uses stereotypes from movies. And though I think that this is already pretty bad, mine myth can easily cause death, since around the world there is a lot of old mines still in the ground. And it would be fair to hold filmmakers accountable for this things
It’s really not a hard thing to imagine, landmines giving you time to tell your team/squad to move away so less people die wouldn’t make sense for a war scenario.
I imagine some guerrilla out there has built a pressure-release IED in their garage and may have even been inspired by the movies to do it, operating under the assumption that it makes a great weapon of terror.
What's the point of it if it only potentially kill 1 person instead more person killed
Guerilla doesn't behave like supervillain doing silly thing
Yeah I could possibly see it there, the delay for that purpose could even be useful since it potentially results in the sort of tense situation that news media are likely to show up and cover in real time. Which if your goal is to terrorise a population could indeed be considered a feature possibly even with the increased risk that this means it never goes off it would still at least be as good at causing disruption as just a plain old bomb threat. Albeit with extra drama that would probably get more media attention and spread fear more effectively.
I thought a cellphone-activated IED was closer to a command mine.
Making your own fuse system in a garage is difficult in the already gnarly field of homemade explosives.
"so what did i do? i procrastinated for two full years" is absolutely the most relatable thing i think i have ever heard.
There's also one other detail. Hollywood writers may very well HAVE done research, including interviewing veterans, and as you point out, those veterans would have heard and possibly believed these rumors about how bouncing betty mines worked, and thus told the writers that.
0:51 that one dude who said cool beard while everyone else was like ☝🤓. 🤣🤣
people actually believe this myth?
I know right! It’s way more prevalent than I ever expected
Crazy
These days a lot of people believe the earth is flat. Of course people probably believe that.
@@Valpo2004 it a symptom of a wider issue but yes, you are right ▶️
a large majority of humans will never see a landmine or be close enough to one to need that knowledge.
if we weren't nerds then it would be likely we would think like that too
Thanks!
Thank you!
@@WorldWarWisdom no problem :)
I love accuracy.
Thank you for addressing this
I know of a mine that works like that. I served for 5 years in the Norwegian military in various roles. Now, where have I seen, planted, and stepped on these types of mine? Training exercises. We trained with a parter nation, and they used a type of repurposed mine, without explosives naturally. but with a blank inside. these had to be stepped on and of. step down released a safety pin, step up cleared the path for the plunger to hit the blank and it made a tiny pop sound and you would be called out for being fried.
I didn't know people thought land minds work like. I was conditioned to think they would go off under any amount of weight or force from Loony Toons. That one foghorn leghorn bit where he hits the ground with an open hand, it goes off, and it blew off all his feathers away. At least I did learn something new. They wouldn't go off under any amount of weight or force; they go off when more than 10lbs of pressure is applied all to 3 trigger prongs. Thank you for that insight.
"LANDMINES HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT TAKEN MY SPEECH TAKEN MY HEARING TAKEN MY ARMS TAKEN MY LEGS TAKEN MY SOUL LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!" - Metallica
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see, absolute horror
I cannot live, I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body, my holding cell
That’s from Johnny got his gun originally
@tylernathan7985 yes we all know its based off of a film that is based off of a book
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He should’ve said, “And if you don’t believe me, then go test it yourself”
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Just a thought on the dual fuse anti vehicle land mine, it could be good for troop carriers, like trucks as well, the front tire rolls over it, then it goes off when one of the rear tires does next. This ensures it goes off under the troop section and not the engine and driver. Now the vehicle is disabled just as much, but you've dealt with a bunch of dudes instead of one or two.
That's what my mind went to, too.
it's basic logic: why would a device meant to kill and maim people give them a chance to avoid it?
7:11 lol that was actually a good sequences of jokes.
Dude, I thought they didn’t work that way, and then I thought they did, and now I’m back to square one. 😂
basically the button goes down and thats connected to the pin, which hits explosives, triggering the explosives and KABLOOEY so no you couldn’t keep pressure the explosives would trigger anyway