the "step on, step off" -kind of mines are not 'total fiction', German "S-mine" (S.Mi.Z 35 to be exact-) would explode four seconds after someone stepped on it, if you stepped on one & lifted your foot within four seconds the explosive charge would be catapulted into the air & explode there, if you didn't move your foot in time it would explode under your foot, but it wouldn't explode instantly after being armed.
19:44 A Vietnam veteran who visited my high school class said the claymores were arrayed in a circle so if you were assaulted you blew them in all directions in case the enemy was approaching from multiple directions. They seemed to use it more for information than with the expectation it would end a fight.
Small arm fire is occasionally used by Naval forces to detonate a ‘contact-detonation’ sea mine by hitting one of the ‘horns’ after the anchor cable for the mine has been cut, allowing the mine to rise to the surface. Cheers from a former sapper.
yeah... "those mines explode immediately... not really immediately, there is a time delay of a few milliseconds, but from a human perspective they do" (loosely quote)
I think the step on, step off trope comes from a misunderstanding of how bounding mines work. Soldiers would step on the mine, step off and then it would jump up in the air and explode. It used a fuse but looked like stepping off the mine CAUSED it to activate. Here is a diagram. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_mine Also the big Michael Bay fireball maker is actually a thing. It is a flame fougasse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fougasse_(weapon)
The US Army started the idea that German S-mine ("Bouncing Betty") wouldn't go off until you lifted your foot off if it. That was bad information they were putting out during WWII - stepping on an S-mine *immediately* started a *short* (about 4 seconds) delay fuse before it bounds. The US Cold War M16 bounding mine family was directly modeled off the German S-mine. Later versions of the M16 family *did* have a "step off" fuze... but it *also* had that short delay that started as soon as you stepped *on* the mine. So, if you stepped on it and froze, it went off after 4 seconds anyway. If you stepped on and then immediately jumped away, it would go off immediately (before you could possibly get clear) - so either way, you are (to use the US GI pseudo-German term) "upgefucht".
@@TheHenirikCorrect, I think. Probably you could design a bounding mine to pop up immediately, but it's likely simpler/cheaper and "good enough" to use a short delay.
7:44 also, 130 kg, if you are jumping on the ground from your APC door (like that famous video with Ukrainian soldiers getting out of a Bradley IIRC), a 80 kg soldier with 30 kg loadout with vertical speed, is totally doing more than a 130 kg force (sensor kinda works in Newton) trigger, thus triggering the mine
I don't think the detonator/trigger is bothered what unit of measurement you step on it with. KG, Newtons, Meters per second, it's all the same to the mine haha
@@Vin_San think i've seen that clip. Why the hell those troops acted the way they did ? Like they had to at least assume by default of mines propably there ?
True most mines are detonated by the initial pressure, not the release of it. BUT Pressure release mines do exist. The MS3 is an example of a pressure release mine. Bounding mines, like the German S mine "bouncing betty" may have added to this misconception, in that there is a delay in detonation after the mine is activated.
that was very informative. I learned lots of new things. Didn't know that shooting a mine will not be effective. And the effectivnes of the Claymore was surprising
Idk about you guys but when he was talking about what movies get wrong, the first scene that comes to mind is the one from Behind Enemy Lines where he steps on the spike shaped mine for dramatic effect or when he is "outrunning" the explosions of the trip mines. Lol
1)The M18 Claymore mine has 2 cap wells which can take electric or non-electric blasting caps. For example, a tripwire detonator could be used for instantaneous detonation. However, the M213 pyrotechnic delay fuze from an m67 grenade can be installed if the tail of the spoon is cut off, giving a 4-5 second delay after the wire is tripped. A commercial electric or non-electric detonator can be used. 2)Antitank mines and IEDs can be detonated or deflagrated with .50BMG APIT ammunition, especially if an impact plate (such as a railroad tie plate) is placed directly in front of the object to set off the bullet and cause a thermite reaction. Sometimes, the IED or mine will burn instead of explode.
Mine fields are horrible things. But what some think in that knowing or giving away the point that an area is a mine field is a bad thing. But knowing a minefield exists is as good as knowing one doesn't. Its a dreadful state.that siad, the worst case is being forced to push through minefields that you know exist, regardless of who laid them. 100 years ago they were typically manually laid under pattern. Now, its random deployment by artillery. Now, you can hardly differentiate your own mines for the enemies... Oddly enough, i don't rhink "modern" mine layong is more effective.
Western militaries are going through a solid issue, of well, AM vehicles need a screening military, yet you can't screen in minefield, cos of well the mines..... But this is complicated in that NATO doctrine is, we'd just wipe out the air force first, allowing ground forces free reign. If we can't, we don't advance. Both obvious and complicated.
Incendiary rounds can cause deflagration of the explosive filling of the mine, but it depends on the round, if it goes through before mixture activates, it will be just like shooting with regular rounds.
Thing with computer games is you'd want to make adversity "fair" to the gamer. Measures & countermeasures. Having no visual tell would mean that the player would just walk and go "boom". A game could give a bit of time, or a step off switch so the player could disarm the mine and so on. The whole objective about war is to make the other party bleed for their country. You don't want it to be fair. If you "make" things fair, you're only handing an advantage to the others. Not good.
I came across one anecdote pertaining to shooting mines, where some Challengers in the Iraq invasion (I think near Basra) used the coaxial machinegun to sweep some anti-tank mines off of the road. Seemed believable enough to me.
In that case the mines were visible, exposed and they shot them to blow them off the road more then to detonate them, got an ex-forces guy mention that several times they saw mines being laid on top of the ground in view of them (they were doing this at night…) but they were not burying them so…not as much of an issued it was because the enemy had no idea they had been spotted at night. When mines were laid properly they were a pain he said, he had to replace tracks and pins plus other minor damage on the suspension of his vehicle several times due to properly place mines that they got caught by.
@@yannichudziak9942 Makes sense. There might be some reason to put mines in open view of everyone, but if they're not covered by your own fires they do seem a bit pointless. Perhaps some Iraqi soldiers were kind of phoning it in during the initial invasion, preferring to stay alive until Saddam stopped being alive. Sadly things didn't stay that way.
@@MrNuseramethey still do their job of denying that part of the road. They are cleared quick, but for that you still have to stop your afvance for a bit. Or it funnels you into an ambush.
English is a great language. I walked over mines in Yorkshire with no problem, then if I walk on a mine in Ukraine I get injured? We need a semantic update.
I have heard that there are antitank mines that can be set to detonate only after set number of vehicles have driven over them. These kind of mines would be only used in ambushes.
I first came across the step-on / step-off trigger for mines in a Sven Hassel novel Liquidate Paris written in the 1960s (about a fictional German penal unit in WWII). I never quite believed in it, but it made for a very tense event filling a chapter as they try to rescue their doomed lieutenant. The controversial Danish author Børge Pedersen did serve in a WWII panzer unit in Ukraine, but was a notorious liar during WWII and almost certainly spent some time in a military prison (as an inmate or guard it isn’t really clear). He was probably personally familiar with how imprisoned soldiers were treated in the WWII German Army. I have seen similar scenarios repeated in films & TV since, the most recent one I recall was in 2016 (Agents of SHIELD s3e16 Paradise Lost) and it is such an embedded trope in action drama with 50 years between those two specific pieces of fiction.
shooting mines: depends on the kind of mine, artillery/aircraft-deployed "sprinkle mines" have no reason to be safe to handle, on the contrary they need to be sensitive after being deployed, this kind of mines can only be cleared by setting them off on purpose because they are so sensitive, I have literally trained clearing this type of mines with a rifle (we didn't use real mines as targets of course)
The Afghans were always trying to shoot IEDs, which just made them more dangerous to render safe because they were damaging fuses and making/breaking connections between the power source, switch and det. At best it might've resulted in a low order det which still leaves a heap of AN or whatever UBE laying around, but now scattered. That said, many EOD units have .50cal or similar rifles for the purpose of clearing cluster munitions from runways and hard surfaces. Pew Pew!
Ukraine were firing shells filling with butterfly mines into civilian areas of Donetsk. People were using long flexible poles like fishing rods to set them off. Dogs and children were the main victims of these mines that landed in parks
Escape From Tarkov added tripwires recently, but it does them using normal hand grenades with the wire attached to the pin (or so it's indicated).. initially it seemed very cool but then the delay turned out to make them almost completely pointless. They're good for protecting a location, to disrupt people passing through it, but it can easily be spotted and disarmed, and getting into position to place it can be risky. Definitely underwhelming like that.
There actually exists a Hollywood mine that explodes when you step off it instead of it being instant. However its purpose is to be used for boobytrapping AT-mines but one could use one as a Ad Hoc AP-mine.
And what is this mine called? I've never heard of any such mine, because the added complexity of making a fuze designed to arm in response to a pressure release doesn't make much sense. I see it similar to how one could design a firearm with a trigger that will trip the sear when it is released, rather than when you squeeze it. Other than novelty items like binary triggers, you don't see such systems used widely in firearms, even though it would arguably be ideal for precision shooting. Why? Added complexity and cost = more things that could go wrong in a system designed for use under adverse conditions. Military equipment isn't designed to be perfect. It's designed to be affordable, rugged, reliable, and efficacious even under the worst possible conditions and in the hands of people who are far from experts or gentle users of their equipment.
@@Schwarzvogel1 The actual name was a combination of letters and numbers which I forgot. We just call it Hollywood mine because it works like mines in Hollywood. Its more complicated yes but you can place it under any legacy AT-mine and when someone lifts it up the whole thing blows up. If you knew that just a few mines are booby trapped like that would you try to move a single one of them or just blow them all on the spot?
Q: Does the guest have experience with remote deployed mines? Like the ones deployed with artillery like RAAMS? Are they dangerous even though they are not buried? Either Western or Russian?
It absolutely does. You can make the useful frag pattern more efficient by limiting it to where you reasonably expect the enemy to be, because you are making the same number of fragments fill a smaller pattern - so it is extra dense in the directions you expect the enemy to be, and extremely sparse in the directions you don't expect the enemy to be. Ultimate example would be directional mines like the American Claymore and Russian MON series.
I would love a follow-up on examples of mines depicted accurately in books, movies, TV series, and other media. Also, how does mine revomal sapping and charities like Halo Trust work?
I think this is a bit unfair to the movies, as the supposed inaccuracies match exactly the account I heard firsthand from a Vietnam veteran. He himself stepped on a bouncing Betty (which I believe is the model shown on the left of the thumbnail of this video), which MUST necessarily activate after its victim steps off. He also recounted his units’ awareness of an East German type which did explode on a time delay, which necessitated him standing atop the bouncing Betty for some 5 minutes while his unit formed a perimeter and waited to learn his fate. In the end he was helped by two others to jump off similar to a grenade escape dive, the mine exploding in a helmet which was placed over it. The only instantaneous explosion mines he faced were the Soviet counterpart to the US’ “toe poppers”. I am sure this video is truthful about modern mines, but in at least that part of Vietnam the mines seemingly matched the Hollywood account derided early in this video.
@@Tom_Quixote Yep, Hollywood, which also taught us that radioactive materials universally glow bright green, and that mounting a suppressor on a firearm either makes it completely silent or changes the sound of the report to a mouse fart noise.
Well it depends Alotta People don’t realize that High Quality explosives tend to be very accident proof But tons of mine designs allow for shooting them to go off It’s just that it’s better for games to allow this for simple arcade design reasons In real life, plastic explosive and ETC usually need a very prescribed ignition format
Indeed. However, consider that "mines" can also include IEDs of varying quality, and not just factory-built munitions. And you are correct that even some factory-built mines can be set off by subjecting them to heavy shock or kinetic impact. Higher-quality mines tend to be blast-resistant, but that comes with added cost in manufacture, and mines are most effective in large quantities. Hence, having a large stock of mines that aren't blast-resistant is still useful, even if your enemy can set them off with explosives or by shooting them. Why? Because those mines are still doing their job if they force the enemy to slow down to deal with them--regardless of whether he's blowing them up with line charges or simply sending forward unfortunate men with bayonets to probe the ground. Mines are area denial weapons first and foremost.
11:55 I wonder about this subject. Some reputable gun/war history communicator (I don't remember who, but guys like Forgetten Weapons) said that the Barrett in 50 BMG was popular in Iraq and Afghanistan because it could trigger IED. (maybe only with API rounds or so, not FMJ/Match ammo) I guess it works for IED made out of artillery shell? But what about mines? I don't think the incendiary part of the API could start the TNT/plastic/whatever of a mine, but maybe it does? Thanks for this interview!
Well there is HEIAP .50 antimaterial rounds. However even those probably work against metal cased stuff like shell/mortar IED. Since the hard metal casing ensures the detonation of the HE filler. Just on soft block of mine explosive in say plastic or fiberglass might not impact hard enough to set of the friction and pyrotechnic based detonation train of the HEIAP. I would assume EOD etc. would go "well before we have to go near that thing, like shoot it with HEIAP. If it goes up in detonation job done. If not, it's clearing charge/bangalore torpedo time". I don't think any military sappers/EOD/engineers anymore really go for disarming, unless it's something like bomb sitting next to critical infrastructure or it's is insanely big explosive in middle of habitation. No the questions just "how do we deliver the initiating clearance explosive to that thing, so that it all goes up in air while we are at safe distance from it all".
@@aritakalo8011 Pretty sure I came across reports in Ukraine that sappers from both sides try to disarm and take back with them any explosives enemy planted, because you can always reuse it and there is no such thing as too much explosives in a war.
I remember an old picture from the 2nd iraq war of an old truck that had a claymore on the front with a wire being run into the cab. The idea was that if an ambush occurred in the front, the driver would pull the wire and blast em with the mine. Seems rather silly because well the driver woulda been got too.
Yeah, but that is more about the HEI part and not the shooting with bullet part. HE detonating next to/ in the mine detonates the HE in the mine directly. Rather than simply relying on the kinetic energy. You can carry the HE next to the mine as block and detonate it with delay fuse, or you can deliver it more directly via a carrying bullet that also handles the detonating of said HE in it.
Of course it'd work unless the vehicle driving over it is getting a lot of flotation and exert little pressure on the mine. Theoretically could not work against amphibious vehicles in rare circumstances.
@@tedarcher9120 Nope. Shock from falling imparts kinetic energy to the mine, as does applying pressure by standing on it. If an explosive is sensitive enough to be initiated by someone standing on it, then any impact will do the same. There's no such explosive used in mines.
Apparently Soviet/Russian mines are not so safe from KE attack, because I saw a video in which an international monitor responsible for the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant shot mines to clear a road where the mine had not been buried. Of course, they didn't blow up in flames, but they did blow. Maybe the idea was to just separate most of the main charge from the fuse, so they could drive over what is left.
artillery/aircraft-deployed "sprinkle mines" (such as American "Gravel mine" and "Dragontooth" or Russian "Butterfly mine" aka. the PFM-1 seen at 15:25 which Russia HAS deployed in Ukraine) ARE sensitive (after they arm upon landing-) & can only be cleared by detonating them because they are designed to go off at the lightest touch.
@@pacificostudios the submunition -type (aka. ones delivered as part of artillery shells/rockets & cluster bombs dropped from aircraft etc.-) anti-personnel mines seem to come in two general forms: cylindrical ones that release a web of very sensitive tripwires & the butterfly -like ones that are supposed to go off at the slightest disturbance after arming (this type can be triggered by pressure, changes in magnetic field or maybe even simply tremors, depending on the specific type of fuze.)
@@pacificostudios we don't have landmines in Finland either (we may or may not have munitions that used to be classified as trip-wire detonated anti-personnel mines that are now doctrinally used as anti-personnel *charges* detonated remotely by a sentry vis-a-vis the Claymores mentioned on the video-), but thanks to Russia being literally next-door to us our military is, by necessity, quite familiar with the munitions ruskis like to use in war, as such their cluster munition -delivered mines are something of a matter of interest for us.
What about tripwires where the charge is a handgrenade with a standard delay fuse? Are they being used? Or is all nastiness done by sappers with specialized explosive devices?
Sometimes it is made on purpose to look like something didn't work. More people comes, since it's safe or people get up from "hitting the ground" and then stuff explodes. Germans even did it with their chemical weapons artillery shells.
Uzrgm fuse can be configured to be instant for traps and fits most soviet grenades. Yes normal fuses are used but these special fuses are relatively widely issued and used.
There is special HE-Ammo for some rifles used as anti-material rifles, often .50. These are used for jobs like that, but they ignite the mines not by cinetic energy, but by explosion. This is not an ammo a normal unit has available in the field.
shooting does not work to disarm a properly laid mine, the ones that are getting shot usually are not buried but just laying on the ground, in that case shooting a mine will displace it.
Man, learned a lot. I’m surprised to hear that claymores are not as lethal as I assumed. The books I read as a kid seemed to portray them as 100% deadly even at 30 meters!
I wouldn't want to hit any mine with a stick. Shooting one from a hundred metres away, from behind cover sounds _a lot_ more appealing than walking up to a mine and trying to unscrew its fuze assembly, though. After all, think of it this way. If you shoot a mine from a hundred or more metres away, one of two things will happen. 1) The mine detonates, sending most of its explosion upwards. Any fragments which fly towards you will likely be stopped by your cover. If you're doing this from inside an AFV (e.g. you're using its coaxial machine gun, or heck, even the main gun with HE), you'd be perfectly safe. 2) The mine doesn't blow up... which means you now need to figure out a new way to deal with it. But in either case, you won't be blown up by the mine.
@@Schwarzvogel1 the PFM-1 mine in particular has very little explosive filler and practically no shrapnel, it's really only just enough to take your foot off if you step on it, so it's relatively safe to detonate with a (albeit long) stick, or better yet shooting it. I've seen videos of people throwing rocks/bricks at them but that's not the smartest as you're only introducing shrapnel
Maybe you've learnt that from the war in Ukraine, but many of us already knew that mines were horribly effective from past conflicts dating back to WWII. The real horror of mines, however, is their persistence. Portions of the Eifel Forest in Germany are still off-limits to this day due to buried mines which nobody can find, since the Germans made them out of glass, wood, and other non-metallic materials which cannot be picked up by most mine-detecting equipment.
This spounds lika a bulkshit episode. The engineur should have done his research. Springminen had a delay as far as I know. But I am not an expert but he should be.
The mine fires immediately…flys into the air it has armed the delay fuse so it detonates at the right height to spread its fragments… it detonates as soon as triggered.
Delayed mines ARE very real, they are a two stage delay bounding anti-personnel variant (M2 "bouncing betty"/Grendel/S2 ) this type fires a small charge to propel it to waist/chest height before detonating the main charge. If persons foot was still on top of the mine, it could not reach it's effective detonation height, hence it needs wait until foot pressure is released to be effective .They are also very effective as "booby trap devices" placed under objects triggering the first stage, when the object is disturbed the action completes. These were made by the Germans during ww2, Americans and Italians until the 1970's, but never by the USSR/RU , so in Ukraine they would not be found.
Do you mean just putting a weight on the top to activate it, then leaving it to go off when disturbed? I’ve never heard of any such mine that waits until you release, all I’ve seen has time delays triggered by the initiation of pressure.
No, they dont wait until the pressure is released and no, they were not used as booby trap devices, because they didnt need serval actions or staged to go off, only one. And the USSR copied the bouncing betty too
MH NV: "Shooting mines does not work." The US mil;ltary: "You know the best ways to get rid of a mine field is to shoot/blow it up/punch it right? It's just insanely noisey because of all the mines exploded and the means of exlploding them... But then again iyt's best doen with a full force not a stealth mission any way."
Actually, MCLC's are not as effective as the press would have you believe. They also are of limited length, so you need several to many to penetrate Russian fields. And then you need to use a mine plow or roller to get the mines that didn't blow up.
Obviously this guy doesnt know what ye talking about because its just common sense you throw a rock or can at it duh 🙄 jeez dude shooting it just waste ammo.
Of course Ukrainians are desperate. Russians want to eradicate their nation. Others would use nukes in such a situation, them using mines is easily justifiable. Nevermind that Russians use even more mines, and that while they are the attacking side.
Mines are great weapons. They're exclusively a defensive weapon, which makes them inherently good. If you don't want to get blown up, then don't invade my land. Easy.
Also funny you mentuion the russo ukrian war... as if in any major war mines were utterly useless and just a waste of resorces and everyones time now and in the future for generations to come. As in peace that could boom one day so uncleaned up mines would be amajjor hassle. And wi;ll get couintless people killed after the war as in the war they won't exact if someone does something stupoid that would get them killed anyway.... As this war can be considered the grewat artillery war as that is what the vast majority of the action.... Just millse/rocket/cannon artily carrying the whoile war on their backs... Where as nether sides seems to be using their special forces at all making mines pointless as their omnly point since WW1 was to slow down special forces movement... as since WW1 you can just destroy a mine field shooting artily at it... Hince way you never hear of armies having issues with mines since WW1 and why it's a good habit to bombard a area before you move your army their hince why mines were anon issue on the western front in WW1 and on D-Day... Mines can't hurt you if they all epolded hby artillery shooting them yesterday.... Which this video was true in pre WW1 wars as they had no way to mine feilds as cannon and mortors did not work that way not to mention no aircraft of any kind... Like the best thing you can do is dig umder it and blow it it up... But that took time so if it wasn't a mahjor mass battle it wasn't worth it... which idf it was a siege it would be pointless as you can just spend a but more time and blow up the enmy instead... So yeah shooting mines is the reason why minefields are pointless to use against an army and this is common knowledge and even instact at this point...
You should likely look at spelling...Anything correctly. The only thing I deciphered is that you think minefields are pointless which is quite the laughable assumption.
Honstly this title got me to unsub jui\st because it very much isn't true and if it was it would be click bait as using artily is considered shooting.... Like my guy you are beyond lying on the internet for a click or too...
It's been a long since I watched it, but I think in behind enemy lines, the guy stepped onto a trip wire mine and dislodged, but was still holding the pin in with his foot
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the "step on, step off" -kind of mines are not 'total fiction', German "S-mine" (S.Mi.Z 35 to be exact-) would explode four seconds after someone stepped on it, if you stepped on one & lifted your foot within four seconds the explosive charge would be catapulted into the air & explode there, if you didn't move your foot in time it would explode under your foot, but it wouldn't explode instantly after being armed.
@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized There is a typo in the description of the video. It says "mites" instead of mines. Thanks for the video!
@@shagakhan9442 thanks, fixed.
19:44 A Vietnam veteran who visited my high school class said the claymores were arrayed in a circle so if you were assaulted you blew them in all directions in case the enemy was approaching from multiple directions. They seemed to use it more for information than with the expectation it would end a fight.
Of course, the Americans with their over-supply of everything were able to do this. The 'mad-minute' being another example.
@@captainhurricane5705 military industrial complex go bbrrrrr
@@captainhurricane5705 The Mad minute tactic was developed by the British army during their colonial wars.
Small arm fire is occasionally used by Naval forces to detonate a ‘contact-detonation’ sea mine by hitting one of the ‘horns’ after the anchor cable for the mine has been cut, allowing the mine to rise to the surface. Cheers from a former sapper.
"unhealthy to step on" - Tell me your german without telling me your a german.
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yeah... "those mines explode immediately... not really immediately, there is a time delay of a few milliseconds, but from a human perspective they do" (loosely quote)
Don't forget the red LED for ARMED .
HaHa true. Also, where did you get that sick PFP?
I don’t think they use LEDs for that. Too save on costs they are incandescent
You forgot the beeping
I think the step on, step off trope comes from a misunderstanding of how bounding mines work. Soldiers would step on the mine, step off and then it would jump up in the air and explode. It used a fuse but looked like stepping off the mine CAUSED it to activate. Here is a diagram.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_mine
Also the big Michael Bay fireball maker is actually a thing. It is a flame fougasse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fougasse_(weapon)
Also sometimes hand grenades, including ones with the lever release activation method, get used in booby traps
The US Army started the idea that German S-mine ("Bouncing Betty") wouldn't go off until you lifted your foot off if it. That was bad information they were putting out during WWII - stepping on an S-mine *immediately* started a *short* (about 4 seconds) delay fuse before it bounds.
The US Cold War M16 bounding mine family was directly modeled off the German S-mine. Later versions of the M16 family *did* have a "step off" fuze... but it *also* had that short delay that started as soon as you stepped *on* the mine. So, if you stepped on it and froze, it went off after 4 seconds anyway. If you stepped on and then immediately jumped away, it would go off immediately (before you could possibly get clear) - so either way, you are (to use the US GI pseudo-German term) "upgefucht".
and pop up mines would almost per definition have have a delay mechanism to work properly, right?
@@TheHenirikCorrect, I think. Probably you could design a bounding mine to pop up immediately, but it's likely simpler/cheaper and "good enough" to use a short delay.
IIRC the brits used a lot of Fougasse as they had a shortage of anti tank mines but loads of fuel.
I love that he's working with real explosives and thinking to himself "I need to tell people what the movies get wrong."
7:44 also, 130 kg, if you are jumping on the ground from your APC door (like that famous video with Ukrainian soldiers getting out of a Bradley IIRC), a 80 kg soldier with 30 kg loadout with vertical speed, is totally doing more than a 130 kg force (sensor kinda works in Newton) trigger, thus triggering the mine
I don't think the detonator/trigger is bothered what unit of measurement you step on it with. KG, Newtons, Meters per second, it's all the same to the mine haha
@@Vin_San think i've seen that clip. Why the hell those troops acted the way they did ? Like they had to at least assume by default of mines propably there ?
True most mines are detonated by the initial pressure, not the release of it.
BUT Pressure release mines do exist. The MS3 is an example of a pressure release mine.
Bounding mines, like the German S mine "bouncing betty" may have added to this misconception, in that there is a delay in detonation after the mine is activated.
Interesting video thanks for posting and thanks to the guest for sharing their knowledge
that was very informative. I learned lots of new things. Didn't know that shooting a mine will not be effective. And the effectivnes of the Claymore was surprising
Idk about you guys but when he was talking about what movies get wrong, the first scene that comes to mind is the one from Behind Enemy Lines where he steps on the spike shaped mine for dramatic effect or when he is "outrunning" the explosions of the trip mines. Lol
1)The M18 Claymore mine has 2 cap wells which can take electric or non-electric blasting caps. For example, a tripwire detonator could be used for instantaneous detonation. However, the M213 pyrotechnic delay fuze from an m67 grenade can be installed if the tail of the spoon is cut off, giving a 4-5 second delay after the wire is tripped. A commercial electric or non-electric detonator can be used.
2)Antitank mines and IEDs can be detonated or deflagrated with .50BMG APIT ammunition, especially if an impact plate (such as a railroad tie plate) is placed directly in front of the object to set off the bullet and cause a thermite reaction. Sometimes, the IED or mine will burn instead of explode.
This is an excellent series!😊
Hey Bernhard! I really like listening to this guy. Bring him back.
Mine fields are horrible things.
But what some think in that knowing or giving away the point that an area is a mine field is a bad thing.
But knowing a minefield exists is as good as knowing one doesn't.
Its a dreadful state.that siad, the worst case is being forced to push through minefields that you know exist, regardless of who laid them.
100 years ago they were typically manually laid under pattern. Now, its random deployment by artillery. Now, you can hardly differentiate your own mines for the enemies...
Oddly enough, i don't rhink "modern" mine layong is more effective.
Western militaries are going through a solid issue, of well, AM vehicles need a screening military, yet you can't screen in minefield, cos of well the mines.....
But this is complicated in that NATO doctrine is, we'd just wipe out the air force first, allowing ground forces free reign. If we can't, we don't advance. Both obvious and complicated.
considering most tank losses are due to mines, seems pretty effective
@tommihommi1 i didn't express an opposing view. Mines are stupidly effective in curtailing advances.
I guess op is saying that the manual laying method was perhaps more effective compared to randomised mine laying via artillery?
There were also fake minefields to make the enemy believe that an area was blocked.
Thank you. Super interesting to hear the real experience & understand the real intents & limitations of yhese weapons
Incendiary rounds can cause deflagration of the explosive filling of the mine, but it depends on the round, if it goes through before mixture activates, it will be just like shooting with regular rounds.
Thing with computer games is you'd want to make adversity "fair" to the gamer. Measures & countermeasures. Having no visual tell would mean that the player would just walk and go "boom". A game could give a bit of time, or a step off switch so the player could disarm the mine and so on. The whole objective about war is to make the other party bleed for their country. You don't want it to be fair. If you "make" things fair, you're only handing an advantage to the others. Not good.
Well. Sometimes you want the enemy to think you're playing fair. And of course there is the whole laws of war thing.
Bro, what a perfect timing for this video
I came across one anecdote pertaining to shooting mines, where some Challengers in the Iraq invasion (I think near Basra) used the coaxial machinegun to sweep some anti-tank mines off of the road.
Seemed believable enough to me.
In that case the mines were visible, exposed and they shot them to blow them off the road more then to detonate them, got an ex-forces guy mention that several times they saw mines being laid on top of the ground in view of them (they were doing this at night…) but they were not burying them so…not as much of an issued it was because the enemy had no idea they had been spotted at night.
When mines were laid properly they were a pain he said, he had to replace tracks and pins plus other minor damage on the suspension of his vehicle several times due to properly place mines that they got caught by.
@@yannichudziak9942 Makes sense. There might be some reason to put mines in open view of everyone, but if they're not covered by your own fires they do seem a bit pointless.
Perhaps some Iraqi soldiers were kind of phoning it in during the initial invasion, preferring to stay alive until Saddam stopped being alive. Sadly things didn't stay that way.
@@MrNuseramethey still do their job of denying that part of the road. They are cleared quick, but for that you still have to stop your afvance for a bit. Or it funnels you into an ambush.
The children yern for the mines, just not these mines.
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We urgently need some mines mining mines!
English is a great language. I walked over mines in Yorkshire with no problem, then if I walk on a mine in Ukraine I get injured? We need a semantic update.
I have heard that there are antitank mines that can be set to detonate only after set number of vehicles have driven over them. These kind of mines would be only used in ambushes.
I first came across the step-on / step-off trigger for mines in a Sven Hassel novel Liquidate Paris written in the 1960s (about a fictional German penal unit in WWII). I never quite believed in it, but it made for a very tense event filling a chapter as they try to rescue their doomed lieutenant. The controversial Danish author Børge Pedersen did serve in a WWII panzer unit in Ukraine, but was a notorious liar during WWII and almost certainly spent some time in a military prison (as an inmate or guard it isn’t really clear). He was probably personally familiar with how imprisoned soldiers were treated in the WWII German Army. I have seen similar scenarios repeated in films & TV since, the most recent one I recall was in 2016 (Agents of SHIELD s3e16 Paradise Lost) and it is such an embedded trope in action drama with 50 years between those two specific pieces of fiction.
shooting mines: depends on the kind of mine, artillery/aircraft-deployed "sprinkle mines" have no reason to be safe to handle, on the contrary they need to be sensitive after being deployed, this kind of mines can only be cleared by setting them off on purpose because they are so sensitive, I have literally trained clearing this type of mines with a rifle (we didn't use real mines as targets of course)
My whole childhood is a lie
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Were you raised by landmines?
Thx for the Information
The Afghans were always trying to shoot IEDs, which just made them more dangerous to render safe because they were damaging fuses and making/breaking connections between the power source, switch and det. At best it might've resulted in a low order det which still leaves a heap of AN or whatever UBE laying around, but now scattered.
That said, many EOD units have .50cal or similar rifles for the purpose of clearing cluster munitions from runways and hard surfaces. Pew Pew!
The mines at 16:05 look like objects that would be very attractive to small children. Remember what war is.
Ukraine were firing shells filling with butterfly mines into civilian areas of Donetsk. People were using long flexible poles like fishing rods to set them off. Dogs and children were the main victims of these mines that landed in parks
Great info, thanks
Thank you for this Informationen.
I did read up on insensitive explosives, turns out its like rocket propellant with some added RDX for spice
Escape From Tarkov added tripwires recently, but it does them using normal hand grenades with the wire attached to the pin (or so it's indicated).. initially it seemed very cool but then the delay turned out to make them almost completely pointless. They're good for protecting a location, to disrupt people passing through it, but it can easily be spotted and disarmed, and getting into position to place it can be risky. Definitely underwhelming like that.
If the primary mine is triggered and detonates, do the anti-handling mines also explode?
All soviet tripwire mines can have a delay fuze, it's called ЗДП and can have 1.5-3s delay
Yes, that is so that the guys behind you also get into the area of effect.
@DASSAMWASHERELP exactly. Also tripwire grenades have 5 second delay. You can definitely run away if you hear it
There actually exists a Hollywood mine that explodes when you step off it instead of it being instant.
However its purpose is to be used for boobytrapping AT-mines but one could use one as a Ad Hoc AP-mine.
And what is this mine called? I've never heard of any such mine, because the added complexity of making a fuze designed to arm in response to a pressure release doesn't make much sense.
I see it similar to how one could design a firearm with a trigger that will trip the sear when it is released, rather than when you squeeze it. Other than novelty items like binary triggers, you don't see such systems used widely in firearms, even though it would arguably be ideal for precision shooting. Why? Added complexity and cost = more things that could go wrong in a system designed for use under adverse conditions.
Military equipment isn't designed to be perfect. It's designed to be affordable, rugged, reliable, and efficacious even under the worst possible conditions and in the hands of people who are far from experts or gentle users of their equipment.
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The actual name was a combination of letters and numbers which I forgot.
We just call it Hollywood mine because it works like mines in Hollywood.
Its more complicated yes but you can place it under any legacy AT-mine and when someone lifts it up the whole thing blows up.
If you knew that just a few mines are booby trapped like that would you try to move a single one of them or just blow them all on the spot?
Q: Does the guest have experience with remote deployed mines? Like the ones deployed with artillery like RAAMS?
Are they dangerous even though they are not buried? Either Western or Russian?
Play Foxhole, you can plant all the mines you want!
I expect the inverse square law comes in with fragmentation
It absolutely does. You can make the useful frag pattern more efficient by limiting it to where you reasonably expect the enemy to be, because you are making the same number of fragments fill a smaller pattern - so it is extra dense in the directions you expect the enemy to be, and extremely sparse in the directions you don't expect the enemy to be. Ultimate example would be directional mines like the American Claymore and Russian MON series.
Tripwires made with hand grenades do have a 4-5 second delay and 3-5 m range
I would love a follow-up on examples of mines depicted accurately in books, movies, TV series, and other media. Also, how does mine revomal sapping and charities like Halo Trust work?
Love these videos but the guest audio visualizer is too much chaotic flashing. Maybe it'd been better to put a slideshow of mines and relevant stuff.
agree
I agree with this sentiment.
Depends on what you shoot it with.
I think this is a bit unfair to the movies, as the supposed inaccuracies match exactly the account I heard firsthand from a Vietnam veteran. He himself stepped on a bouncing Betty (which I believe is the model shown on the left of the thumbnail of this video), which MUST necessarily activate after its victim steps off. He also recounted his units’ awareness of an East German type which did explode on a time delay, which necessitated him standing atop the bouncing Betty for some 5 minutes while his unit formed a perimeter and waited to learn his fate. In the end he was helped by two others to jump off similar to a grenade escape dive, the mine exploding in a helmet which was placed over it. The only instantaneous explosion mines he faced were the Soviet counterpart to the US’ “toe poppers”. I am sure this video is truthful about modern mines, but in at least that part of Vietnam the mines seemingly matched the Hollywood account derided early in this video.
"I know, I tried"
where does that 'click' panic meme come from?
Hollywood?
@@Tom_Quixote Yep, Hollywood, which also taught us that radioactive materials universally glow bright green, and that mounting a suppressor on a firearm either makes it completely silent or changes the sound of the report to a mouse fart noise.
I'd never thought about how stupid standing on mine scenes are. In my defence, naval mines are different. ⚓😊
8:32 I weigh over 90kg so probably not an option for me, but do lighter soldiers try to get their weight plus kit under 130kg?
Recommended reading on WWII mines?
Behind enemy lines. Owen Wilson
Well it depends
Alotta People don’t realize that High Quality explosives tend to be very accident proof
But tons of mine designs allow for shooting them to go off
It’s just that it’s better for games to allow this for simple arcade design reasons
In real life, plastic explosive and ETC usually need a very prescribed ignition format
Indeed. However, consider that "mines" can also include IEDs of varying quality, and not just factory-built munitions. And you are correct that even some factory-built mines can be set off by subjecting them to heavy shock or kinetic impact. Higher-quality mines tend to be blast-resistant, but that comes with added cost in manufacture, and mines are most effective in large quantities.
Hence, having a large stock of mines that aren't blast-resistant is still useful, even if your enemy can set them off with explosives or by shooting them. Why? Because those mines are still doing their job if they force the enemy to slow down to deal with them--regardless of whether he's blowing them up with line charges or simply sending forward unfortunate men with bayonets to probe the ground.
Mines are area denial weapons first and foremost.
@@Schwarzvogel1Yeah
That’s what I meant
11:55 I wonder about this subject.
Some reputable gun/war history communicator (I don't remember who, but guys like Forgetten Weapons) said that the Barrett in 50 BMG was popular in Iraq and Afghanistan because it could trigger IED. (maybe only with API rounds or so, not FMJ/Match ammo)
I guess it works for IED made out of artillery shell? But what about mines?
I don't think the incendiary part of the API could start the TNT/plastic/whatever of a mine, but maybe it does?
Thanks for this interview!
Well there is HEIAP .50 antimaterial rounds. However even those probably work against metal cased stuff like shell/mortar IED. Since the hard metal casing ensures the detonation of the HE filler. Just on soft block of mine explosive in say plastic or fiberglass might not impact hard enough to set of the friction and pyrotechnic based detonation train of the HEIAP. I would assume EOD etc. would go "well before we have to go near that thing, like shoot it with HEIAP. If it goes up in detonation job done. If not, it's clearing charge/bangalore torpedo time".
I don't think any military sappers/EOD/engineers anymore really go for disarming, unless it's something like bomb sitting next to critical infrastructure or it's is insanely big explosive in middle of habitation. No the questions just "how do we deliver the initiating clearance explosive to that thing, so that it all goes up in air while we are at safe distance from it all".
@@aritakalo8011 Pretty sure I came across reports in Ukraine that sappers from both sides try to disarm and take back with them any explosives enemy planted, because you can always reuse it and there is no such thing as too much explosives in a war.
I remember an old picture from the 2nd iraq war of an old truck that had a claymore on the front with a wire being run into the cab. The idea was that if an ambush occurred in the front, the driver would pull the wire and blast em with the mine. Seems rather silly because well the driver woulda been got too.
No, because the mine throws shrapnel forwards, not backwards.
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ok, but what is with the steel plate in the back, or the explosion, which will make its own shrapnell out of the windshield.
The Swedish army does shoot mines, using the Barret m82 and HEIAPT ammo.
FDF also shoot mites, but with other rifles
Yeah, but that is more about the HEI part and not the shooting with bullet part. HE detonating next to/ in the mine detonates the HE in the mine directly. Rather than simply relying on the kinetic energy. You can carry the HE next to the mine as block and detonate it with delay fuse, or you can deliver it more directly via a carrying bullet that also handles the detonating of said HE in it.
if you put an AT mine in shallow water, would it work, ?
Whats the logic behind this question?
Of course it'd work unless the vehicle driving over it is getting a lot of flotation and exert little pressure on the mine.
Theoretically could not work against amphibious vehicles in rare circumstances.
Some but not all will work correctly, depending on the waterproofing and the vulnerability of the detonation train.
Shoot mine? i've see the video of the Russians choping up mines with an axe to get the explosive out to burn for fuel.
modern explosives are really insensitive
@@andyf4292some anti-personnel mines don't have a detonator, just sensitive explosives
@@tedarcher9120 Not feasible.
For explosives to be that sensitive, they'd initiate if dropped or jolted.
@GARDENER42 they don't react to dropping, only to pressure
@@tedarcher9120 Nope.
Shock from falling imparts kinetic energy to the mine, as does applying pressure by standing on it.
If an explosive is sensitive enough to be initiated by someone standing on it, then any impact will do the same.
There's no such explosive used in mines.
Apparently Soviet/Russian mines are not so safe from KE attack, because I saw a video in which an international monitor responsible for the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant shot mines to clear a road where the mine had not been buried. Of course, they didn't blow up in flames, but they did blow. Maybe the idea was to just separate most of the main charge from the fuse, so they could drive over what is left.
artillery/aircraft-deployed "sprinkle mines" (such as American "Gravel mine" and "Dragontooth" or Russian "Butterfly mine" aka. the PFM-1 seen at 15:25 which Russia HAS deployed in Ukraine) ARE sensitive (after they arm upon landing-) & can only be cleared by detonating them because they are designed to go off at the lightest touch.
@@hullutsuhna - That's interesting. In the video I saw, the mines looked more like plates. I've seen the butterfly type that you mention.
@@pacificostudios the submunition -type (aka. ones delivered as part of artillery shells/rockets & cluster bombs dropped from aircraft etc.-) anti-personnel mines seem to come in two general forms: cylindrical ones that release a web of very sensitive tripwires & the butterfly -like ones that are supposed to go off at the slightest disturbance after arming (this type can be triggered by pressure, changes in magnetic field or maybe even simply tremors, depending on the specific type of fuze.)
@@hullutsuhna - Thank you. I can only go by videos. In the United States, land mines are not found outside Army bases. A good thing.
@@pacificostudios we don't have landmines in Finland either (we may or may not have munitions that used to be classified as trip-wire detonated anti-personnel mines that are now doctrinally used as anti-personnel *charges* detonated remotely by a sentry vis-a-vis the Claymores mentioned on the video-), but thanks to Russia being literally next-door to us our military is, by necessity, quite familiar with the munitions ruskis like to use in war, as such their cluster munition -delivered mines are something of a matter of interest for us.
I am sorry but for some reason I have a certain scene from Finding Nemo in my head
What about tripwires where the charge is a handgrenade with a standard delay fuse? Are they being used? Or is all nastiness done by sappers with specialized explosive devices?
Sometimes it is made on purpose to look like something didn't work. More people comes, since it's safe or people get up from "hitting the ground" and then stuff explodes.
Germans even did it with their chemical weapons artillery shells.
@@lovdhirondelle5995 yes , they are being used, by both sides. Such doesn't require sappers. It's more or less field craft for soldiers.
Uzrgm fuse can be configured to be instant for traps and fits most soviet grenades. Yes normal fuses are used but these special fuses are relatively widely issued and used.
Walter about the “bouncing Betty” mine?
So "if" shooting not working why all real armies do that?
There is special HE-Ammo for some rifles used as anti-material rifles, often .50. These are used for jobs like that, but they ignite the mines not by cinetic energy, but by explosion. This is not an ammo a normal unit has available in the field.
shooting does not work to disarm a properly laid mine, the ones that are getting shot usually are not buried but just laying on the ground, in that case shooting a mine will displace it.
@@megalamanooblol Scatterable Mines are not under ground and they are the main issue behind own lines.
Man, learned a lot. I’m surprised to hear that claymores are not as lethal as I assumed. The books I read as a kid seemed to portray them as 100% deadly even at 30 meters!
I have seen people shoot lepestok mines and clear them. Ive also seen guys hit them with sticks. I wouldnt want to shoot an anti tank mine.
I wouldn't want to hit any mine with a stick. Shooting one from a hundred metres away, from behind cover sounds _a lot_ more appealing than walking up to a mine and trying to unscrew its fuze assembly, though. After all, think of it this way.
If you shoot a mine from a hundred or more metres away, one of two things will happen.
1) The mine detonates, sending most of its explosion upwards. Any fragments which fly towards you will likely be stopped by your cover. If you're doing this from inside an AFV (e.g. you're using its coaxial machine gun, or heck, even the main gun with HE), you'd be perfectly safe.
2) The mine doesn't blow up... which means you now need to figure out a new way to deal with it.
But in either case, you won't be blown up by the mine.
@Schwarzvogel1 the lepestok stick trick is solid. I never saw any injuries
@@Schwarzvogel1 the PFM-1 mine in particular has very little explosive filler and practically no shrapnel, it's really only just enough to take your foot off if you step on it, so it's relatively safe to detonate with a (albeit long) stick, or better yet shooting it. I've seen videos of people throwing rocks/bricks at them but that's not the smartest as you're only introducing shrapnel
One thing we've learned from the war in Ukraine is that mines are horribly effective
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Maybe you've learnt that from the war in Ukraine, but many of us already knew that mines were horribly effective from past conflicts dating back to WWII.
The real horror of mines, however, is their persistence. Portions of the Eifel Forest in Germany are still off-limits to this day due to buried mines which nobody can find, since the Germans made them out of glass, wood, and other non-metallic materials which cannot be picked up by most mine-detecting equipment.
The visuals on this just really sucked it was unwatchable
This spounds lika a bulkshit episode.
The engineur should have done his research. Springminen had a delay as far as I know. But I am not an expert but he should be.
The mine fires immediately…flys into the air it has armed the delay fuse so it detonates at the right height to spread its fragments… it detonates as soon as triggered.
He did say that there's fuzes with delays, but those are different from the "arm when step off" kind of mines we see in movies.
Delayed mines ARE very real, they are a two stage delay bounding anti-personnel variant (M2 "bouncing betty"/Grendel/S2 ) this type fires a small charge to propel it to waist/chest height before detonating the main charge. If persons foot was still on top of the mine, it could not reach it's effective detonation height, hence it needs wait until foot pressure is released to be effective .They are also very effective as "booby trap devices" placed under objects triggering the first stage, when the object is disturbed the action completes. These were made by the Germans during ww2, Americans and Italians until the 1970's, but never by the USSR/RU , so in Ukraine they would not be found.
There are anti vehicle mines that can be set to detonate after a certain amount of presses
The german S2 would detonate after about 4 seconds, wether the weight on the trigger was lifted or not.
Do you mean just putting a weight on the top to activate it, then leaving it to go off when disturbed?
I’ve never heard of any such mine that waits until you release, all I’ve seen has time delays triggered by the initiation of pressure.
No, they dont wait until the pressure is released and no, they were not used as booby trap devices, because they didnt need serval actions or staged to go off, only one.
And the USSR copied the bouncing betty too
US M16 mine, not M2. The German S mine in WW2 was the original Bouncing Betty.
welp, 3rd comment.
MH NV: "Shooting mines does not work."
The US mil;ltary: "You know the best ways to get rid of a mine field is to shoot/blow it up/punch it right? It's just insanely noisey because of all the mines exploded and the means of exlploding them... But then again iyt's best doen with a full force not a stealth mission any way."
Actually, MCLC's are not as effective as the press would have you believe. They also are of limited length, so you need several to many to penetrate Russian fields. And then you need to use a mine plow or roller to get the mines that didn't blow up.
@@k53847 And there are even mines that have over pressure protection, to counter this form of mine clearing.
omg i thought this was a dead channel along with the other one
Obviously this guy doesnt know what ye talking about because its just common sense you throw a rock or can at it duh 🙄 jeez dude shooting it just waste ammo.
I weep for the state of education nowadays if you genuinely think that throwing rocks or cans is an effective method of explosive ordnance disposal.
@Schwarzvogel1 prove me wrong and throw this rock at it.
@@54032Zepol Just make sure you catch it when it comes back
Horrible weapons. How fitting for the US to be sending them to the Ukraine. Smells of desperation.
At least escaped hogs won't be much of a issue for post conflict farmers😊
Of course Ukrainians are desperate. Russians want to eradicate their nation. Others would use nukes in such a situation, them using mines is easily justifiable. Nevermind that Russians use even more mines, and that while they are the attacking side.
@@PomyPie And the dog fouling problem will also be much improved.
Mines are great weapons. They're exclusively a defensive weapon, which makes them inherently good. If you don't want to get blown up, then don't invade my land. Easy.
Also funny you mentuion the russo ukrian war... as if in any major war mines were utterly useless and just a waste of resorces and everyones time now and in the future for generations to come. As in peace that could boom one day so uncleaned up mines would be amajjor hassle. And wi;ll get couintless people killed after the war as in the war they won't exact if someone does something stupoid that would get them killed anyway.... As this war can be considered the grewat artillery war as that is what the vast majority of the action.... Just millse/rocket/cannon artily carrying the whoile war on their backs... Where as nether sides seems to be using their special forces at all making mines pointless as their omnly point since WW1 was to slow down special forces movement... as since WW1 you can just destroy a mine field shooting artily at it... Hince way you never hear of armies having issues with mines since WW1 and why it's a good habit to bombard a area before you move your army their hince why mines were anon issue on the western front in WW1 and on D-Day... Mines can't hurt you if they all epolded hby artillery shooting them yesterday.... Which this video was true in pre WW1 wars as they had no way to mine feilds as cannon and mortors did not work that way not to mention no aircraft of any kind... Like the best thing you can do is dig umder it and blow it it up... But that took time so if it wasn't a mahjor mass battle it wasn't worth it... which idf it was a siege it would be pointless as you can just spend a but more time and blow up the enmy instead... So yeah shooting mines is the reason why minefields are pointless to use against an army and this is common knowledge and even instact at this point...
You should likely look at spelling...Anything correctly. The only thing I deciphered is that you think minefields are pointless which is quite the laughable assumption.
Honstly this title got me to unsub jui\st because it very much isn't true and if it was it would be click bait as using artily is considered shooting.... Like my guy you are beyond lying on the internet for a click or too...
If you unsub and never comment on these videos again I think that would be great for us all.
It's been a long since I watched it, but I think in behind enemy lines, the guy stepped onto a trip wire mine and dislodged, but was still holding the pin in with his foot