Booby trap
A roadside bomb also hidden charge ( English booby trap ), is is "a device or substance which intended constructed or adapted to kill or injure, and occurs unexpectedly in activity when a person an apparently harmless object from brings its position or approaches it or undertakes an apparently harmless act ”(definition in the sense of Protocol II to the UN Arms Convention ).
Non-industrially manufactured booby traps are known in German as unconventional explosive devices or incendiary devices (USBV), in English as IED ( Improvised Explosive Device ). Unexploded explosive devices are called English Unexploded Ordnance designated (UXO).
Mode of action
Booby traps can be used, among other things, in the form of a seemingly harmless movable object that is specially designed to detonate if touched, changed in position or approached. Booby traps have been attached to the wounded, corpses, children's toys , kitchen or hygiene items, in food and beverage packaging or animals, but also to household items and under manhole covers or pavement slabs.
Hand grenades can be converted into booby traps in which the loosened safety pin is triggered by a trip wire. An unlocked hand grenade with a pulled safety pin can serve as an anti-lift device under a land mine . If such a mine z. B. raised by a clearing party, the percussion detonator is relieved and the hand grenade is ignited. The detonation takes place after a few seconds delay. In addition to the tripwires, which are usually laid just above the floor (at ankle to knee height), other trigger mechanisms such as a light barrier are also used.
A special form of booby-traps are projectile-forming charges , which were used in the Herrhausen assassination , and which use the Misznay-Schardin effect , and thus have an armor-piercing effect.
The trigger for booby traps also can print igniter are triggered by an electric detonator, and of two metal poles and a battery are produced mechanically as a pyrotechnic pressure igniter, as a remote-triggered detonator by cables as in the M18 Claymore directional disintegrating agents, or by radio with a Cell phone triggering an electric primer.
The self -firing systems laid on the former German-German border were anti - rifle mines with a directed fragmentation effect.
According to the Ottawa Agreement , soldiers of the contracting states are prohibited from using booby traps and anti-personnel mines, except by pioneers in marked and documented minefields to prevent them from being cleared.
See also
literature
- U.S. Army Field Manual FM 5-31 Boobytraps, 1965
Web links
- Prohibition of the use of certain booby traps according to Federal Law Gazette 1992 Part II, page 971
- Prohibition of the use of booby traps and other devices according to Swiss federal law
- Humanitarian Impact from Mines other than Anti-Personnel Mines A report of the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining ( engl. , PDF file, 1.07 MB)
- Booby traps are the poor man's weapons. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013 ; accessed on October 16, 2018 .