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YaM-5K

Mine  
Russian Federation
USSR

The YaM-5 is a wooden-cased AT blast mine developed by the Soviet Union. The mine consists of a rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid. An MUV pull fuze is housed in the lid on the unsupported side along with a wooden peg attached to the igniter's pin. The wooden peg is retained by two eyelets. Sufficient pressure on the lid causes the wooden peg and the fuze's pin to be forced down, out and away from the fuze. The fuze then functions, initiati...

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