Unknown Mine Fuze

[Eggburt1969]

Send to myself via my boss (Colin King of many mine and other EOD-related publications) from a fuze and munitions collector in the US.

Markings seen include: pressed-in Latin script AOG-69, which could be its designation, or something like a factory code and year of production; a white triangle; and a white script and a punch-marked 'INERT'.

It has an upper assembly 'similar' to the MVZ-62 (МВЗ-62), but the lower area would seem to be from the MVZ-57 (МВЗ-57) and sized for the fuze well of the TM-57 (ТМ-57) anti-tank blast mine. So overall a bit like an MVZ-57, but an outer shell, arming button, and safety pin like the MVZ-62.

At a guess something from a former Warsaw Pact country, but that is just a guess. Any ideas of its country of origin, its history, its designation, and its usage would be appreciated by my boss and the US collector.

 

[jvollenberg]

I have one, but it has the manufacturers markings on it. I have it as Hungarian.

Joe

 

[Eggburt1969]

Unfortunately I have next to nothing on Hungarian munitions, including mines, but it's good to know it may be Hungarian.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hungarian Mine Fuzes

I have had these fuzes for 7 years and finally need to have a correct ID and how they are used. I believe the large fuze is for the UKA-63 AT Mine but how are the smaller fuzes used? White one is marked : EBG 68A and brown is marked EBG 68. Is one a practice fuze? I notice the differences in...

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[microplastic]

UKA-63 Anti Tank mine

 

[Eggburt1969]

Many thanks all, info passed onto the fuze and munitions collector in the US.

 

[strakv]

AOG stands for "Atombiztos Óraműves Gyújtó" which means "Atomic blast proof clockwork fuze". They are designed to eneable the mine whitstand the pressure of a large blast.
The white markings are applied later by a Czech firm that sells surplus inert ammo.

 

[EODGUY]

To me "clockwork" implies a time fuze, which makes no sense in an AT mine. Could it mean "mechanical"?

 

[microplastic]

I think clockwork is correct because all the characteristics of a clockwork are met: spring preload, mechanical action in a certain time, rewindable. However, in the manual it is called a mechanism.

 

[HAZORD]

The clockwork would be the arming delay period.