Anti-tank mine

Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. It is this last treaty that has been the subject of much international attention in the last few years. That attention was generated through a multitude of causes including: the

Motorolla, a multinational telecommunication company was involved in selling electronic parts to mine manufacturers, indirectly contributing to the deaths caused by anti-personnel landmines. Back in January 1996, the news broadcasting Motorola’s semiconductor chip being found in a Chinese-made landmine in Cambodia spurred public debate over the company’s ethical code of conduct (HRW, 1997). Anti-personnel mines are explosive weapons built to harm and kill enemies, they are placed just below the grounds

Jennifer Womble POLS 486 Dr. Switky The ways and reasons land mines are used has changed dramatically since WW1. What was once considered to be cutting edge defensive technology has turned into an offensive tactical device and extremist’s tool to wreak havoc on an enemy or marginalized population. Connecting the history of landmines to the conflicts we have discussed in this class will take several steps. The first part of this paper will discuss the history of landmines, how they are detonated

network of trenches. In the Atlantic Wall, there were hundreds and hundreds of machine guns and heavy artillery. Then Rommel put in the mines. There were 6.5 million mines and 11 anti-personal mines, in all on the beach heads. There were mines of all sorts and kinds. There was the S-Mine (the soldiers called it Bouncing Betty’s), which were (anti-personal mines) shot into the air after being triggered and exploding in the air while sending a lethal spray of steel

Unfortunately Britain and Canada both failed their attack but weakened the wall with bombs and tanks. Hitler's “Atlantic Wall” was an extremely long wall (length wise) and was no easy task to get through. The military had to pass anti-tank guns, mines, belgian gates (anti-tank gates), and anti-landing craft obstacles. Those were just the weapons there was also plenty of soldiers armed and ready to fight. Now the anti-tank guns were not in plain sight in fact they were actually disguised as houses and watchtowers

channel tanks into killing zones The development of fast-moving reliable tanks led to many ideas of how to slow or disable them. One of those ideas was to design obstacles to immobilize tanks by lifting their treads off the ground from below. These traps were first used during World War Two, predominantly in Europe, and were called Dragon’s Teeth. They are square pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete, arranged in irregular rows, and the idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing

duty equipment like tank.”M48 Patton medium tank, M551 Sheridan, Centurion main battle tank (Australia). The American used a few Sherman M4A3-M4A6 medium tanks in Vietnam (The M4 Sherman medium tank was the most common Allied tank used in World War II.) However, by the time the Korean War had ended, the Americans had, for the most part, replaced the Sherman with more modern tanks. The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong were supplied with Soviet tanks: the T-34/85 medium tank, which was first used

history and there are lots of reasons why the Allies had success in the invasion. In this essay I will focus on three reasons I believe to be the most significant to victory. Those reasons are Air Supremacy, Unique and adapted tanks and Operation Fortitude South. D-Day tanks were specialised to fit the environment of Normandy while still being effective in combat. Air Supremacy was crucial to distract the Germans with the gliders, paratroopers, bombers, and fake dummies. Operation Fortitude South

wondered what types of guns were made or used in the vietnam war? The vietnam war was a start of new weaponry and artillery for war. In the vietnam they took weapons from world war II and modified them into better weapons. They also used helicopters and tanks while fighting in the war. In the vietnam war they used a gun called m14 which is a modified version of the m1 Garand from world war II. The m14 has different prototypes like the T25 and T47. The m14 was developed to replace seven different weapons

cliffs above. Beach obstacles included concrete cones, angled poles with mines attached to them, and sharply angled steel trails. Emplaced in the sand and shale were anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, barbed and concertina wire. In the cliffs above the Germans had emplaced bunkers, machine gun nests, tank turrets, and connecting tunnels. German defense weapons included 35 pill boxes, 60 light artillery pieces, 18 anti-tank guns, 85 machine gun emplacements, 38 rocket emplacements, and the basic