This is a mine invented by germans in ww2. The germans invented this mine to create maximum dammage. To do this they invented the mecanism to propell upwards and after a delay the mine whould get to about the waist height or higher the sudenly would explode and send mass amounts of shrapnel in to the enemie. This mine design killed many alied soldiers durring ww2. The mine is aproximitly 5 inches tall without the fuse, and about 4 inches in diamater. the way this mine was (triped) trigered is that there is a 3 prong presion sensor at the top of the fuse and if weight is put on them it will get triggered. To get the most use of this mine weapon is that the german army developed an attachment to put on the fuse thats whould be relayed to a trip wire so that it would be much more usefull and versatile. here is the design of the bouncing betty
this is how the allies would disarm the mines, at first they would probe with sticks or bayonets and try not to set off the mine then when found they would try to slip a pin( sewing pin) into the safety hole to stop the fuse from getting compressed and setting off after the safety was on they would unscrew fuse and the mine whould be unable to be set off. thanks for reading and keep coming back to read my blogs.
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