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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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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.

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.

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

Best look at the primer and explosive layer so far!

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?

Just this so far.

Wowwwww very simple.

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

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