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Old 12-17-2014, 03:25 PM
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TM-62P plastic anti tank mine
Grenade Class:
Weight: 9.5 kg
Diameter: 320 mm
Height: 128 mm
Effective Range: 0 m (emplaced with pressure plate or tilt rod fuze)
Fuse Delay: 0 seconds (trip wire activated)
Burst Radius: 15m
DPW: 12,988 (7.5kg TNT)(although sometimes RDX/TNT/Aluminium and Amatol mixes are used)
Anti-Armor Class: A

Additional Comments:This is the standard blast, pressure activated anti armor mine of the Warsaw Pact; the blast will destroy the roadwheels, track links, and suspension of main battle tanks, immobilizing them. High probability of piercing the hull floor on MBTs. For lightly armored vehicles, strong probability of a catastrophic kill, with a dead crew, and unrecoverable hull.

Easy to detect due to large size however the plastic body and minimal metal used in the fuze does not register a strong metallic signature (mine detector).

No booby-trap well is present since the mine is designed for mechanical laying.The standard fuze is the delay-armed MVZ-57 (pressure plate), but the MVSh-57 tilt-rod fuze can be used when the mine is laid by hand.
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