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New Russian anti helicopter mines

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EOD

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Development of land mines in Russia never stopped. Here two of their anti heliciopter mines. Though it does not mean that these ever will get adopted. Effectivity is claimed for altitudes of up to 100m. Photo from the Russian news web.
 

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can you see or know the nomenclature or any other spec's. 100 meters is pretty high for attacking a helicopter, kind of makes the fuze seem sensitive to audio or down draft. But still a nice find
 
No nomenclatures given there. But they have more than these. Will try to find the images.
 
nice mine now I can see why a 300m range, I'll check the video again I think the nomenclature is clearly shown
 
No nomenclature there as it is almost usual with experimental stuff. Is says "dummy" on the side and the markings on top are "malfunction" and "ready".
 
Vietnamese did some fine work in this area during the war, improvised methods when the down draft of the chopper blades. The charges would be in a daisy chain. Not much find when making an air assault into an LZ you thought was secure.
 
Spaceinvader said:
I've never seen an Anti-Helicopter mine before, how do they work?
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Basically the setup is like this:
http://indomiliter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4ahm100_001.jpg

The modern mines of this type use electronic sensors and some also can direct their launching units if required. I also imagine that some use airborne sensor fuzed war head sections which are fired into the air when a chopper is detected in the active radius. The warheads do vary from directed shrapnel types to EFPs.
The first generation of improvised types used all sorts of wind vanes and and maybe horizontal pressure panels - as webereod said using the down draft of the rotor blades.

Speaking of Vietnam it is an interesting side story that the USSR developed back then a multi barrel rocket launcher in 30mm caliber named "Kolos" which was basically a shot gun firing a salvo of rockets. Good they decided not to produce these for Vietnam.
 
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Here an additional image to the initial posting:
 

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weberoed said:
Vietnamese did some fine work in this area during the war, improvised methods when the down draft of the chopper blades. The charges would be in a daisy chain. Not much find when making an air assault into an LZ you thought was secure.
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EOD said:
The first generation of improvised types used all sorts of wind vanes and and maybe horizontal pressure panels - as webereod said using the down draft of the rotor blades.
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Like this, for example ? :) ;-)

(Cong Truong)
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EOD said:
Speaking of Vietnam it is an interesting side story that the USSR developed back then a multi barrel rocket launcher in 30mm caliber named "Kolos" which was basically a shot gun firing a salvo of rockets. Good they decided not to produce these for Vietnam.
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Interesting the info about "Kolos", was it a sort of Russian variant of "Fliegerfaust" ?

Regards
stecol
 
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yes that was the basic type, there were at least 2 of moles each using some kind f wing/blade that would catch the wind
 
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