Firing Pin - Images

Images

  • Cutaway view of an M4 anti-tank mine showing integral firing pin

  • Gyata-64 anti-personnel mine

  • PM-79 antipersonnel mine

  • Valmara 59 bounding mine

  • MD-82 mine (Vietnamese near-copy of the M14 mine)

  • Military boobytrap firing device from USSR (normally connected to a tripwire) showing integral striker. The detonator on the end is inserted into a block of explosive e.g. Semtex

  • USSR booby trap firing device - pull fuze: normally connected to a tripwire

  • USSR boobytrap firing device - pressure fuze: victim steps on loose floorboard with fuze concealed underneath.

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