06-14-2023, 06:55 PM
(06-14-2023, 05:13 PM)dabigv13 Wrote: FWIW if you watch videos from Ukraine you will see Ukrainians regularly clearing TM62 anti tank mines by kicking them out of the way or picking them up with their hands.
TM62 are, of course, mines designed to be buried and cannot be deployed artillery or rocket systems. They can be deployed by helicopters. The Russians have often been reduced to simply placing these mines on the surface, where Ukrainians have "cleared" them as you describe. I wouldn't recommend this, not because the mines have "anti-tamper" capability, but rather because Russian QC is so bad they might simply be unstable :-). When buried, these mines are very deadly and if the plastic case variant is used, hard to detect. Good engineers can also lay these mines with an anti-personnel mine under it. This makes lifting the mines by hand quite dangerous. Mine plows don't much care though.
The Russian PTM-1S is designed to be deployed by Grad or Uragan rocket systems. It does not have anti-tamper capability but Russia often fires a mixture of anti-personnel mines with them. The PTM-3 OTOH (a much bigger mine) cannot be moved after it arms. It is a magnetic mine that will explode when the earth's magnetic field around it is changed, either by a large metal object or by the mine being moved. For some reason as I understand it, the TM62 with an MVN-72 magnetic fuse does not reliable explode when moved/lifted, although it "may". Presumably the Ukrainians are familiar enough with the TM-62 to recognize those using magnetic fuses and behave accordingly.
NATO FASCAM devices absolutely do have anti-disturbance capability and therefore must be removed using mechanical assistance. You can't just pick them up.
