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Contribution to the thread by Dr Thrumpkinz:

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[infidel66687]

Originally Posted by evilcommie ↗

Ukraine or Novorossiya depending on which perspective you take.

Camera man had what looked like a Bulgarian AK74.

[nascarfan7]

Excellent, informative post. I feel like I just attended an expensive forensic science course.

[Omegas3]

This was a really great post. Well done!!!

[WindsofWoe22]

Great post

[SweetPeach]

Every Veteran deserves a thank you... For protecting average civilians, like myself, from horrors such as these. Great, informative content.

[country666]

Originally Posted by fapfapfap ↗

This is a HOF-level post on here.

I love when DR is an objective discussion of some kind of death/gore situation rather than a bunch of degenerates just spewing trash at each other.

Stay out of the water cooler then. That place is cancer in it's purest form lol.

[rudderman]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I googled the PMN4 mine, to see how you can disable it, and according to Google, this is nearly impossible. When the activating pin is pulled, a spring loaded wire cuts through the firing pin retainer, and the mine is then live and cannot be deactivated.
HOWEVER, the same article shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq, standing next to about 100 of these mines, piled up together, that they apparently DID deactivate somehow. Anyone here know how that would have been done?

you googled wrong mine, it was old PMN mine obviously. it was only PMN model with cutting wire delay.

also it was only PMN model with separate fuse. it's obvious from wiki photos as all mine cases there have a small fuse hole opposite to striker assembly.

all other PMN models, PMN-2 and newer all had an integrated fuse in waterproof case. just pull out arming pin and you're all set.

my best guess is those Iraqi mines at wiki pics were never armed at all.

as to deactivating, there's how some Cambodian guy do it (it is a PMN-2 mine also it was planted upside down)

[rudderman]

interesting video.

analysis is pure fantasy.

The landmine stepped on in the video was Russian PMN-4 anti-personnel mine

any reasons to think so? why not PMN-2 which was produced in more quantities and is much more available at any former Soviet army storage?

An exploding landmine sends its blast directly upwards.

wrong. there's no blast directing elements in PMN models. it is basically 5 cm high plastic box 12 cm in diameter with ring shaped piece of HE inside, put in a 3 cm deep earth hole. it's basically piece of HE on a flat surface.

if you need blast direction, put it on a frying pan or something.

The boot’s reinforced uppers that provide great support also inhibits the penetrating blast from venting and dissipating into the surroundings.

wrong. blast source is outside the boot. blast wave IS in surrounding where do you think blast inside the boot will dissipate to?

OP you basically don't know what you're talking about. in unedited version of your post you talked about Kevlar shrapnel.

man do you even know what Kevlar is?

2nd, do you understand when you're standing on a piece of HE, everything in your feet is shrapnel?