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The OZM-4 metallic bounding fragmentation mine. A fragmentation mine is designed to kill the person who sets it off and to injure anybody nearby by propelling fragments.
The cylindrical mine body is initially located in a short pot or barrel assembly activation detonates a small explosive charge, which projects the mine body upwards. As it "bounds" into the air, the mine is activated by an anchor cable secured to the barrel assembly which remains on the ground; the cable pulls a pin from the fuse on the mine's body.
The resulting blast shatters into more than 1000 metal splinters, some of which may be preformed, over a much wider radius and area than wouldbe possible with a surface or buried mine of similar size.
Killing radius - at least 25 metres. A common example, the Italian Valmara 69, can be found all over northern Iraq.
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