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A Russian examines a broken Ukrainian “Gingerbread” drone-dropped improvised anti-personnel landmine. When stepped on the printed shell compresses, driving a screw into a primer capsule and exploding the 30g of C4 or similar explosive. He warns they are hard to see in the grass.

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Roy🇨🇦1 year ago

Sources

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Militiaman1 year ago

If they're mass producing them as a Cheap alternative to a PFM-1... Are they really improvised? They've designed a super cheap mine that can be manufactured almost on the contact line. An example of what we want to do eventually, for 3D printed spare parts.

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Roy🇨🇦1 year ago

The inclusion of retail items like the screw striker makes it improvised. The explosive would be whatever is available at the time. A military grade device would need a standardized, tested, mass produced device with a very low failure rate.

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R3PL1C8R Drones1 year ago

How would you like to be the one screwing in that screw on the production line?

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Matthew Moss | The Armourer's Bench1 year ago

Best look at the primer and explosive layer so far!

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Jimieus1 year ago

Crude but effective I imagine. Plus, probably extremely lightweight. I'm guessing a bomber hexacopter could carry quite a lot of these. Probably have a designed setup for that. Have we seen it yet?

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Roy🇨🇦1 year ago

Just this so far.

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teo firo1 year ago

Wowwwww very simple.

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Patrick Shan1 year ago

Maybe Ukraine should drop these in Russia. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

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Roy🇨🇦1 year ago

Most likely is the percussion primer of an 12.7mm MDZ cartridge, with a few grams of an explosive booster such as PETN.

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