PMD-6
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| Designation: | PMD-6 |
| Type: | Anti-personnel mine |
| Country of origin: | Soviet Union |
| Technical specifications | |
| Combat weight: | 400 grams |
| Charge: | 200 grams of TNT |
| Length: | 200 millimeters |
| Width: | 89 millimeters |
| Height: | 64 millimeters |
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The PMD-6 is an anti-personnel mine manufactured in the former Soviet Union and used by around 30 countries worldwide.
description
The housing of the PMD-6 is made of uncoloured or green painted wood and has a rectangular shape. The upper part has two bores for receiving hinge pins. The upper edges are slightly raised, the lower edges slightly beveled. The mine is 200 millimeters long, 89 millimeters wide and 64 millimeters high.
function
The cotter pin is pressed out of the pre-tensioned firing pin by a pressure of about one kilogram on the upper part. This releases the firing pin and triggers the ignition charge. The resulting pilot jet detonates the initial charge and thereby the active charge. The detonators are those of the MUV series, the MUV-2 as standard.
PMD-6M
In contrast to the PMD-6, the PMD-6 M has a leaf spring on the underside of the cover to increase the release pressure.
Areas of application
The mine was manufactured by the Soviet Union and came to various theaters of war in Europe (e.g. Cyprus ) Africa (e.g. Angola , Zambia , Somalia , Zimbabwe , Burundi , Chad , Rwanda , South Africa , Eritrea , Sudan , Uganda ), Asia (e.g. Afghanistan , Cambodia , Vietnam , North Korea , China , Tajikistan , Thailand ), Central America ( Nicaragua ), South America ( Ecuador ) and the Middle East ( Yemen ).
The PMD-6 was still used in the 1960s by the German Democratic Republic to set up the first minefields on the inner-German border . The mines were later replaced by plastic models, as the PMD-6 tended to explode in heavy snowfalls, or the mines were no longer functional due to the weathering of the wooden box.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A GDR mine from the zone border. Der Spiegel , 1965, accessed January 18, 2020 .