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| Keywords: Landmine anti-handling devices.png A diagram showing the typical configuration of anti-handling devices used with anti-tank mines from the US Field Manual FM 20-32 August 1966 The upper diagram shows a pull-fuze screwed into a secondary fuze well in the side of the mine Additionally an M5 anti-lift device has been screwed into another fuze well hidden under the mine An inexperienced deminer might detect and render safe the pull-fuze but then be killed when he lifted the mine triggering the M5 pressure-release firing device underneath The lower diagram shows two anti-tank landmines connected by a cord attached to the upper mine's carrying handle The cord is attached to a pull fuze installed in a secondary fuze well in the bottom mine There is a strong functional overlap of boobytraps and anti-handling devices a munition with an anti-handling device fitted has for all intents and purposes been booby-trapped From FM 20-32 before 1966 US Gov PD-USGov Anti-tank landmines 1960s diagrams United States Army Field Manual 20-32 Booby traps | ||||
