Improvised Antitank
Notes: This is a
homemade antitank mine, consisting of a box filled with explosives and fitted
with a pressure plate requiring 150kg to detonate (although this is highly
variable). Similar mines are
produced throughout the world. The
mine has a 10% chance of misfiring.
Weapon |
Weight |
Price |
Type |
Damage |
Penetration |
DPV |
Improvised Antitank |
10 kg |
$350 |
Nonmetallic Antitank |
C16 B16 |
80C |
26 |
Improvised APERS
Notes: This is a
homemade Claymore mine, consisting of a metal backplate, a sheet of plastic
explosive, and a layer of nails, scored wire, scrap metal, glass, and other such
trash. It is normally detonated
from a remote position, but a tripwire can be improvised.
The mine has a 10% chance of misfiring.
Similar mines are produced throughout the world.
Weapon |
Weight |
Price |
Type |
Damage |
Penetration |
DPV |
Improvised APERS |
3 kg |
$75 |
Directional APERS |
C3 B50D |
Nil |
9 |
Improvised
Stake Mine
Notes: This is a
form of antipersonnel stake mine, a primitive version of mines like the Russian
ROMZ-2 and the World War 2 German M-43.
It is easily-made and can actually made with parts of other mines and a
grade of concrete that is home-made and not useable for building purposes.
Both the Russians and Germans in World War 2 used them, and they are or
have been used by guerilla forces such as the Viet Cong, the Mujahedin, and
present-day insurgents and irregulars such as Chechen guerillas, Taliban, and
Al-Qaida. The most complicated part
of the mine is the fuze – it is a pull-type fuze actuated by a tripwire, and
usually has to be scrounged from other explosives or explosive kits.
You may also need a blasting cap, depending on the type of fuze
available. If you want to get fancy, you can add a radio detonator, but the mine
is so crude that it is usually not worth going to that kind of trouble. The mine
is crude, but has the virtue of being unaffected by overpressure
Inside the mine
is a small charge of whatever explosives are available – even a short length of
dynamite can be impaled on the central stake.
You then surround the mine with a cylinder of concrete, cement, or clay
which has a lot of pebbles, nails, screws, chunks of metal, sharp rocks;
whatever is jagged and available.
You mount this on a stick of some sort that has a central spike on it, which can
be as simple as a long nail. Let
the clay, concrete, or whatever dry until it’s nice and hard, then drive it into
the ground like any other stake mine.
Attach the tripwire. Voila.
Simple and nasty. Like most improvised mines, the Improvised Stake Mine
has a 10% chance of misfiring.
Weapon |
Weight |
Price |
Type |
Damage |
Penetration |
DPV |
Improvised Stake |
1.5 kg |
$98 |
Antipersonnel |
C4 B8 |
Nil |
5 |