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M72A1 (Anti-Personnel Mine)

Mine  
United States of America

The M72A1 is a small, US-developed, scatterable, wedge-shaped, anti-personnel bounding fragmentation (APBF) mine, which is also known as an Area Denial Artillery Munition (ADAM). A total of thirty six M72A1 are carried within the M731A1 'Area Denial Artillery Munition – Short’ (ADAM-S) 155 mm carrier (cargo, cluster, dispenser, etc.) artillery projectile. It is thought that more than 10 million M72 series mines, and its related M67 series m...

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