German designation : Gl Mi 43 Diameter : 152 mm Height : 120 mm Cartridge : picric acid and TNT Initial pressure : 17 - 20 kg
The mine was made of glass to reduce its retrieval by a minehunter (it contained almost no metal) The cap contained a thin glass plate which broke under pressure and initiated the fuse, which detonated the charge which contained 200 g of TNT
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I'm also adding some pictures
I'll fix the initiation method a little bit the initiation of the mine occurred on stepping on the cap under which was the pressure igniter, you can see in the photo which then initiated the igniter and ...........
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I'm going to be somewhat off topic but it's related to the topic at hand. The use of glass and possibly wood (simply a substitute material) is not so much conditioned by its "non-metallicity" in order to avoid detection by a metal detector, but primarily by the use of materials that are not stragically important and irreplaceable elsewhere. And it also relates to the use of production capacities. The sheet metal pressing plant just replaced the tools of the nohla to produce anything. What could a glassworks or a joinery factory produce? The same is true of the rumour about using glass shells because of their greater wounding power. It's nonsense for the very reason that glass is pulverized by the blast and has no wounding effect in itself.
P.S. The impossibility of detection is actually a by-product. But certainly not scannable.
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In this case, is it really about the off topic, mine was done at a time when even the germans spare production nezaváděli, in this particular case, it was really all about it that was not detected by the minohledačkou. Later the mines were of some non-metallic materials made really of the reasons the investigation (usually was used in the concrete and metal debris) in the case of glass shells with glass break dust (first it goes předfragmentovat) be thrown on the shards that may have the same ranivost as metal but have the disadvantage of their lower weight and therefore energy (the advantage is that difficult in the body to detect and are not seen to be on an x-ray) . At this mines is, of course, střepinový effect side, goes on the landmine that is stored in the country and acts against individuals. When it comes to the fuse of the mines, at the Glasmine have been used as a classic roznětka so roznětka consisting of acid pikrovou enclosed in the cap to which the initiation took place the breaking of the glass plate after the došlápnutí on a landmine..
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