Anti-handling device
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An anti-handling device is an attachment to or an integral part of a landmine or other munition such as some fuze types found in general-purpose air-dropped bombs, cluster bombs and sea mines. It is d
Cutaway view of an M4 anti-tank mine dating from circa 1945, showing two additional fuze wells designed for use with booby-trap firing devices. Either or both fuze wells may have firing devices screwed into them if required
A stack of five M15 mines dating from the 1960s. The top two mines show additional fuze wells
Side view of an M19 anti-tank mine, dating from the 1970s showing an additional fuze well on the side of the mine (sealing cap has been removed) designed for use with booby-trap firing devices. There is another empty fuze well (not visible) located underneath the mine
Teller mine
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The Teller mine was a German-made antitank mine common in World War II. With explosives sealed inside a sheet metal casing and fitted with a pressure-actuated fuze, Teller mines had a built-in carryin
Anti-handling device
…Fuzes with an integral anti-handling feature were not only found in air-dropped bombs. For example, the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze (dating from 1943) fitted to Teller mines automatically triggered detonation if (in an attempt to render the mine safe) the pressure plate was unscrewed. Although the designs of these anti-handling…
Various Tellermines strapped to a tree. Fuzes and pressure-plates have not been fitted
Teller mine on Utah Beach, intended to explode against landing craft at high tide
British engineers removing the charges which the Germans had set to blow the Nijmegen bridge, September 1944
Tellermine 43 anti-tank mine