I’ve seen the devastation of this mine first hand. I know more many many peoples including children who last their arms and legs to this mine. And it’s still happening 40 years on.
Not sure what language is spoken in the video but this is a PFM, (butterfly), mine.I was an Air Weapons Systems tech in the RCAF from 1981-2016, and when I was posted to Lahr in Germany, 1987-1989, I learnt about these. Basically the mine is made up of three sections, one side is a thin flat piece, the other is soft and filled with liquid explosive, and the center contains the firing mechanism. They were released by aircraft and spiraled down to the ground. When the soft section is squeezed, (by stepping on it or squeezing it by hand), pressure is sent to the center part. This pressure activates the detonator and allows the mine to explode. I forget the exact figure but the pressure exerted on the soft side allowed the internal components to move a certain distance before firing,, (say 20mm). A particular thing about this mine was that the movement was cumulative, meaning that if the pressure caused the components to move 5mm, then upon removal of that pressure, instead of the components going back to their original position, they would stay at 5mm and only 15mm would be required to set it off.
Why don't they detonate at impact when dropped from the Airplane? I mean such an impact should be enough to compress the soft side enough to trigger the detonator?
@@AntiOriginal Old comment but to answer: it has an arming timer of 1-40 minutes. So it is not immediately armed when deployed by hand/plane but automatically activates when it's on the ground.
They used it over 10m of this in my country, i remember Children playing with it thinking it's a toy and many of them disabled with it... Big russian airplanes were throwing these little mines
@@justyna2724 What they did here was more than 1000 times bad with what they are doing in Ukraine, and even USA used the worlds most huge none atomic bomb here but world never heard our children's voice, because we weren't European
very interesting movie ... but could you add english subtitles??
Salam mina haqqında hardan oxuyub məlumatlana bilərəm
Men indi gordum vidyolarniz amma cox gozell bele vidyolar gelsin
I’ve seen the devastation of this mine first hand. I know more many many peoples including children who last their arms and legs to this mine. And it’s still happening 40 years on.
Thanks!
Dəyərli məlumatlarınız üçün təşəkkürlər!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Всё чётко и ясно!!!
Not sure what language is spoken in the video but this is a PFM, (butterfly), mine.I was an Air Weapons Systems tech in the RCAF from 1981-2016, and when I was posted to Lahr in Germany, 1987-1989, I learnt about these.
Basically the mine is made up of three sections, one side is a thin flat piece, the other is soft and filled with liquid explosive, and the center contains the firing mechanism. They were released by aircraft and spiraled down to the ground. When the soft section is squeezed, (by stepping on it or squeezing it by hand), pressure is sent to the center part. This pressure activates the detonator and allows the mine to explode. I forget the exact figure but the pressure exerted on the soft side allowed the internal components to move a certain distance before firing,, (say 20mm). A particular thing about this mine was that the movement was cumulative, meaning that if the pressure caused the components to move 5mm, then upon removal of that pressure, instead of the components going back to their original position, they would stay at 5mm and only 15mm would be required to set it off.
Hello. I speak Azerbaijani
You are absolutely right
Why don't they detonate at impact when dropped from the Airplane? I mean such an impact should be enough to compress the soft side enough to trigger the detonator?
@@AntiOriginal Old comment but to answer: it has an arming timer of 1-40 minutes. So it is not immediately armed when deployed by hand/plane but automatically activates when it's on the ground.
They used it over 10m of this in my country, i remember Children playing with it thinking it's a toy and many of them disabled with it...
Big russian airplanes were throwing these little mines
in which country?
@@MegaChickenPunch
Afghanistan
And now it seems that Russia is doing the same in Ukraine. What a barbarians!
@@justyna2724
What they did here was more than 1000 times bad with what they are doing in Ukraine, and even USA used the worlds most huge none atomic bomb here but world never heard our children's voice, because we weren't European
Оо Лепесток. Bunun müddəti keçib çoxdan. İndidə isifadə olunur orduda??
Russians are dropping this in Ukraine right now.
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