you mean that little booger that would shoot up waist height and blow ya up? ------------------ Out side is America!
That's the one, the original 'bouncing betty'. I read a quote somewhere where a US GI called it the "scariest thing in all of europe", mainly because it was so good at inflicting a soldiers most dreaded injury.
S-Mine 35 Height: 5 inches Diameter: 4 inches Weight 9 pounds TNT: 14 + 4 ounces Firing Load: 360 steel balls Trip Weight: 15 pounds Mine jumps 3 to 5 feet before detonation Method of Employment: This mine may be tripped by a pressure trigger or by one or more trip wires. It may also be fired electrically. It was transported in wooden boxes, with 3 contained in each. The mine was made to explode after jumping, using a propellant charge, but this was sometimes replaced with a conventional charge, causing it to explode on, or more accurately said, in the ground. Method of Neutralization: Direct neutralization of the igniters, after finding and cutting trip wires. Unscrew plugs and remove detonator to disarm. Shü-Mine 42 Weight: 1.1 pounds TNT: 200g A much simpler mine than the S 35, the Shu-Mine 42 is made of impregnated plywood, cardboard, and painted dull black, making an easy manufacture as well as use. Method of Neutralization: Being aware for anti-handling devices, as always, and see whether the pin is firmly in the striker. If so the mine may be lifted. Mines with displaced pins should be destroyed in place. S-Mine 44 Height: 5 inches Diameter: 4 inches Weight 9 pounds TNT: 14 + 4 ounces Firing Load: 360 steel balls Trip Weight: 15 pounds Mine jumps 3 to 5 feet before detonation Lethal to 22 yards, casualties to 110 yards Method of Employment: The igniter is tripped by both push and pull triggering. This makes this mine extremely dangerous to handle once armed. The weapon can cause casualties up to 110 yards, a powerful range. Similar to the S35, the S44 jumps before explosion. The main operational difference in the two mines is the S44 has a coil, which when extended completely during the tripping of the mine, pulls the firing pin in the charge and explodes. Method of Neutralization: As a general rule, this mine is better left in place. Source: http://www.axess.com/users/pete/mines.html ------------------ "Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!" - Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe (Guadalcanal, January 13, 1943)
