US M15 Heavy Metallic Antitank Landmine

[@pop401k]

Always excellent information.

[@ScreamingElectron]

Why the gloves?

[@dominickorir-r5i]

I have skill of disarming landmine and I need more training to help my country Kenya

[@vincentphelps6325]

I've watched a few Ukraine videos of Soviet era mines (and that's the limit of my experience). I've noticed that there's more concern about the failure or accidental detonation with US mines than the Soviet ones. Is this a design difference or a troop value difference?

[@SecurityGuy42]

More of production quality.

[@vincentphelps6325]

@@SecurityGuy42 lowest bidder? So the Soviets placed a value on quality.

[@SecurityGuy42]

Western mines for the most part are more complicated. When you look at base design. The Soviet stuff was designed for stupid peasants with little to no education. So simpler designs.

[@JW-zs9bk]

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[@joearledge1]

This seems like a poor design. Pressure plate physically on the fuse... Only 300 to 400 lbs when targeting vehicles/tanks... obviously it works, just doesn't seem like this should have been the one to win the contract...

[@hbomatt]

A 2000 pound truck puts 500 pounds on 4 wheels....

[@joearledge1]

@@hbomatt yep... and that's light as hell.... if I'm targeting armor, I don't want the first farm truck that comes by or Toyota Technical to set it off...

[@isaac6077]

@@joearledge1farm truck will probably be hauling shit though so its kinda hard

[@joearledge1]

@@isaac6077 not really... tanks and other heavy armored vehicles weigh multiple tons, so having an activation pressure of less than half a ton is just poor design. Soft skin unarmored vehicles can be taken out with large AP mines(at least a mobility kill). Or, they could have a category that targets unarmored vehicles with a payload between AP and AT, with a pressure of 300 to 500lbs. Laying mines is a pain in the butt and dangerous for multiple reasons. They are heavy, bulky, expensive, and probably in limited supply wherever you're at. If I'm going through all of that trouble, I don't want it to get wasted on something I'm not targeting. There are no guarantees, but appropriate activation pressures helps.

[@edwardscott3262]

​@@joearledge1The whole point of making tracked vehicles is they have much lower ground pressure than wheeled vehicles. An M1 tank only has like 14-15 psi of ground pressure. They have to make the pressure required to set off an anti tank mine so relatively light because if they didn't tanks and other tracked vehicles wouldn't set them off. I don't feel like doing math but I'd bet there's situations where an M1 tank wouldn't set off this mine. Particularly dry hard ground, the mine buried ever so slightly too deep. It could run right over it leaving the mine there to be set off by any wheeled vehicle. Which definitely does have the ground pressure to set off a mine like this.