Butterfly mines? Both sides have them but who is using them? Their use has been outlawed but the have a strange habit of showing up in places where Russia has been involved like Afghanistan and Syria and now Ukraine. They are showing up in neighborhoods.
The are launched several ways from being tossed out of helos to dropped like a cluster bomb to launched in a missile 20 miles away. All people hear is a semi loud pop as the missile deploys and sometimes the slap of them hitting the ground. Called the kid killer mine cause they look like child's toys. They blow up when disturbed or sometimes on a timer.
Thry contain A small ammount of liquid explosive but have no metal so metal detectors can't find them but also no shrapnel. The explosion won't kill out outright but will sever what ever limb near. Unless you bleed to death. You can "disarm" them by hitting them with a long section of pvc pipe to set them off.
It's a war crime to use them in cities. Or anywhere for that matter.
Ukraine destroyed almost all of theirs but Russia refused to get rid of them.
So who is using them. Each side says the other is responsible but oddly enough as said they show up everywhere Russia is involved in. Russia also prosecute war thru the use of mass artillery strikes mine laying and has a history of purposely going after civilian areas. Basically kill and terrorizing the most people possible, on each side, to win.
The are launched several ways from being tossed out of helos to dropped like a cluster bomb to launched in a missile 20 miles away. All people hear is a semi loud pop as the missile deploys and sometimes the slap of them hitting the ground. Called the kid killer mine cause they look like child's toys. They blow up when disturbed or sometimes on a timer.
Thry contain A small ammount of liquid explosive but have no metal so metal detectors can't find them but also no shrapnel. The explosion won't kill out outright but will sever what ever limb near. Unless you bleed to death. You can "disarm" them by hitting them with a long section of pvc pipe to set them off.
It's a war crime to use them in cities. Or anywhere for that matter.
Ukraine destroyed almost all of theirs but Russia refused to get rid of them.
So who is using them. Each side says the other is responsible but oddly enough as said they show up everywhere Russia is involved in. Russia also prosecute war thru the use of mass artillery strikes mine laying and has a history of purposely going after civilian areas. Basically kill and terrorizing the most people possible, on each side, to win.
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