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official name German S. Mine

Antoon

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Wat is the official name of the abbreviation S. Mine?

I have found the following names on internet; Schrapnellmine, Sprüngmine and Splittermine, but no official German manual or factory drawing with the name written in full.


Greetings - Antoon
 
I seem to remember that the official name was: Schrapnellmine. Other names were not official: Springmine, Schützenmine, Splittermine
 
Wat is the official name of the abbreviation S. Mine?

I have found the following names on internet; Schrapnellmine, Sprüngmine and Splittermine, but no official German manual or factory drawing with the name written in full.


Greetings - Antoon

SPLITTERSPRINGMINE, Fragmentation Mine.
 

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The document from the Sprengschule Dresden is also a secondary document.
The source mentioned in that document: TM 9-1985-3 is about projectiles and projectile fuzes.
The primary German source as mentioned in that document: H.Dv. 220/4b gives no name.
The German manual: H.Dv. 220/4c gives also alone the abbreviation S-Mine 35.
 
This is the case, according to the document from the School of Dresden, the denomination (Bezeichnung) is S-Mine 35. Splitterspringmine and Schuetzenabwehrmine (munitionssorte and munitionsart) are therefore the internal subclasses of the macro-categories (Hauptgruppe) mine....
 
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I think it's just Mine "type S" otherwise, there wouldn't be just a "S" in the full name, as well as in the short (abbreviated) name :

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