S-mine
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The German S-mine, known by enemy Allied Forces as the "Bouncing Betty" on the Western Front and "frog-mine" on the Eastern Front, is the best-known version of a class of mines known as bounding mines
An American paratrooper in the process of removing a live S-mine. On the left is a Mark I trench knife.
S-mine in a museum
American paratrooper using a knife to probe for mines
Smine diagram
Land mine
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A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon often concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near it. Land mines are divid
Examples of anti-personnel mines. Center: Valmara 69 (a bounding mine); right: VS-50
Swedish FFV 028 anti-tank-mines of the German Bundeswehr (inert versions)
Roman caltrop
Chinese illustration of a land mine with eight explosive charges, from the Huolongjing, 14th century