Anti-personnel Mines and anti tank mines are designed for used against humans and vehicles.
With respect to anti-personal mines, anti tank Mines have
more effective explosive payloads (different explosive compounds and shaped charge effects) use of non-ferrous materials making them harder to detect.
Anti-personal mines are often designed to badly injure not kill, victim soldier may lose his legs due to its blast.But many Mines are now designed for killings.
Anti-tank mines were first used in First world war,it was Germans invention.
Blast of Anti-tank mines cover 15% area of a battle tank.But it mostly stop the movement of a tank and also can kill crew of the tank sometimes.
During First World war, Mines accounted for 15% of US tank casualties.Mostly tanks totaly destroyed and crew killed.
But During 2nd World war, every country used these Mines widely.
For example, in the Battle of Kursk, Russian combat engineers laid a staggering 503,663 AT mines, for a density of 1500 mines per kilometer.This was four times greater than what was seen in the Battle of Moscow.
During 2nd world war,
anti-tank mines were responsible for 20-22% of Allied tank losses.Reason of mostly Allied losses was German Tellermine anti-tank mine.
In modern era Anti-personal and anti-tank Mines can be fired from howitzers and aircrafts.Also many Cluster bombs are designed for to spread Mines in enemy land.
American M-15 anti-tank Mine of 2nd World war era is still most effective anti-tank Mine.
According to Ottawa Treaty 1997, many countries banned use of Mines, But this treaty has not yet been accepted by many countries including America, Israel, Russia, China, Pakistan and India.
(Personally I am against the use of anti-personal mines)
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