Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Landmine


Landmine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target either human or inanimate by means of a blast and the fragment impact.

Land mines were designed for two main reasons:

-To create defensive tactical barriers - such as protecting a unit's flanks against infiltration tactics, channelling attacking forces into predetermined fire zones or slowing an invasion force's progress to allow reinforcements to arrive.
-To act as passive area-denial weapons - in order to deny the enemy use of valuable terrain, resources or facilities when active defence of the area is not desirable or possible.

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