Is there a way to protect against those small frickers?
Some special boots, maybe?
They have relatively small amount of explosive, and I think they are the most commonly used AP mine by the Russian forces.
Maybe UE too, since they have 3 millions of them.
If UKies have 3 million, Russia probably has 10 times more.
tbh they are the most scarry weapon, we all saw the vids where guy jumps out of APC, and gets foot blown off before he marches 4 meters.
Toe poppers are absolutely vicious, the US M14 scared the absolute shit out of the NVA but they built them to self destruct eventually, it's unlikely that the Russians did the same.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/93966
>https://www.moma.org/collection/works/93966
those are interesting, but I doubt anyone would use them, I'd be tripping.
mine clearing personnel could, but not anyone else, yeah
Ukrainian engineers use them.
They should make them with v-hull soles
Such boots exist, professional deminers tend to dislike any armor on the feet and legs though. They feel it's cumbersome and provides a false sense of security rather than real protection.
those look like the least comfortable boot possible
>v-hull soles
I think I saw that in a KanColle fetish manga
Absolutely not. They are tough enough already to stop a toe popper, all a V would do is direct the blast into the opposite lower leg.
Those boots were designed in Canada.
Made so our deminers could walk through fields of Elsies. The original design was based on snow shoes.
elsies?
The evil carrot.
A Canadian minimal metal mine with a shape charge just big enough to punch through steel boots.
daumn
>shaped charge in the Elsie mine ensures that most of the force of detonation is directed upwards. As a result, it can penetrate a 12 ply vehicle tyre or 3/8 inch (approx 9 mm) mild steel plate. A person who has been injured by an Elsie mine generally has a small, deep, circular penetration wound which extends all the way through the bones of their foot and out the other side.
at first i thought the shape of is designed so that it can be dropped from air by the houndreds like the butterfly mine, and dig into to the ground like a nail.
they use them in ukraine
not much to be done, individual soldier lives are unimportant.
>Some special boots, maybe?
Reinforced boot has chance to save foot (it would have multiple fractures all over but possible to save with good surgeon care.
"Spider type" boots may prevent wounds completely but they are cumbersome.
I was just thinking about these the other day and how liberals claimed they were specifically designed to look like toys so kids would pick them up and kill themselves.
iirc for clearing they are scooped up with a really long gardening trowel, then gathered to a safe place for destruction.
a more novel approach may be to spot the butterflys via UAV, then dispose of them by soaking the area in explosive liquid, and dropping a detonator to trigger the chain reaction.
sounds kind of stupid tho.
>iirc for clearing they are scooped up with a really long gardening trowel, then gathered to a safe place for destruction.
Funnily enough, the most widely used method (for both sides) is hitting them with a long stick.
yeah I saw vines of Ukrainian teenagers gently picking them up puting on asphalt and
throwing bricks at them
That doesn't sound very safe.
From what I understand, the bulging side's filled with a liquid explosive. When it's squeezed, the liquid pumps a trigger mechanism in the cylindrical part. It may eventually reach its breaking point no matter how carefully you handle it. There's no way to visually gauge how close it is to going off, and the tolerances are ... generous. So you might be able to play catch with it for a while, or it might go off when you first pick it up and it flexes a bit from its own weight.
At least there's barely any fragmentation, aside from the trigger mechanism itself. So it'll usually just maim whatever body parts were close to it.
The real fun part is that it kind of looks like a toy.
>The real fun part is that it kind of looks like a toy.
i think thats a design requirement for the israeli M14-mine procurement
just don't step on them bro like walk around them lmfao
Those japanese stilt shoes give you enough ground clearance and then you make the stilt elements V shaped to redirect the energy
we need power armor and exosuits to really prevent mine and toe popper problems. Would be cheaper to just use mechnized drones at this point and just swap the legs when they go down.