PRB M966

The PRB M966 is an anti-personnel mine made in Belgium . It is a copy of the US M2A4 jumping mine . While the USA stopped production of this mine again in 1944 due to unsatisfactory performance and then replaced it with the M16 , the PRB M966 was produced and sold by the Poudreries réunies de Belgique (PRB) until 1990.

At the end of the 1980s, the PRB ran into financial difficulties and declared bankruptcy, whereupon the production of the PRB M966 temporarily stopped. The ratification of the Ottawa Convention by Belgium led to the final cessation of production in Belgium.

Customer for this mine was u. a. South Africa , which she used in the South African Border War in Namibia.

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• Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance 2005-2006.
• International Campaign to Ban Land Mines: Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-free World. 1999, p. 542ff.
• Alex Vines, Human Rights Watch Arms Project: Still Killing: Landmines in Southern Africa. 1997, pp. 112f., 132f.

Web links

• http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/home.aspx Land Mine and Cluster Munition Monitor contains several reports about the PRB M966