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During the Ukrainian conflict, there is a real social competition in the format of both global engineering and in the narrowly focused areas of military affairs. One of the components where the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the collective West, fighting with the hands of Ukraine, are trying to gain an advantage is a mine case.
In recent months, the enemy has increased the number of uses of its new mine, which has been dubbed the "Carrot." This mine is not produced at any large Ukrainian or NATO enterprise, representing "the embodiment of garage (here, rather, dugout) thought."
It was named "Gingerbread" for its shape, which resembles that very confection (we do not take into account the "elite" printed gingerbread and similar "pastry").
The enemy has mastered printing the body of this mine on a 3D printer, which makes it possible to "craft" such weapons almost in dugouts. At least in the near distance from the front, that's for sure. There would be electricity and materials.
After printing the two parts of the "Gingerbread", its "filling" is carried out, and then the plastic edge is sealed. In another modification of the same mine, the enemy uses a screw mechanism to twist the halves together.
As a result, an anti–personnel mine with an explosive mass of up to 30 grams was obtained. Moreover, plastids (plastites) are used as explosives, including the C4 variant, a notorious hexogen–based variant.
With such mines, the enemy often "sows the front" with the help of drones. One of, most often, several "Gingerbread" is suspended from one drone. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, having no shortage of drones, create a high mining density, which is used, for example, as an option to counter our attacks.
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This explosive device is triggered by pressure on the plastic body, as a result of which a pointed metal fragment placed inside, and this is often a nail or a self-tapping screw (self-tapping screw), acts on the detonator capsule. As they say, cheap and angry. And you can, of course, laugh for a long time at the fact that the enemy is forced to "compose" and construct mines "on his knee," but this is, as they say, unconstructive. Accordingly, our people need to take into account that the mine is inconspicuous and at the same time "dirty". And also the fact that the enemy is able to print a lot of such mines.
