During the recent Russia-Ukraine war, a video has attracted widespread attention. The footage shows that the Russian army, which has two tanks and an infantry fighting vehicle, is advancing along the road when it suddenly comes under heavy fire from the Ukrainian army. First of all, one of the combat vehicles that rushed to the front touched a TM-62 anti-tank gun, which was immediately thrown away, leaving a deep mark on the armor, and there was no way to move forward. Then, a Ukrainian anti-tank gun hit an armored combat vehicle behind, and the people on it jumped off the combat vehicle and ran towards the forest next to the road. However, as soon as they ran out, the suicide aircraft of the Ukrainian army roared and smashed on the armored vehicle, causing an even more violent ** sound. As a result, one of the tanks in the center wanted to turn around the ruins in front of it, but once again accidentally stepped on an anti-tank gun, and the entire hull was punctured, and the engine **. In less than a minute, the armored vehicles of the entire ** army were blown up.
Seeing this video, people will sigh like this: Why is this thing that looks very old still so useful on the modern battlefield?
In fact, the development of anti-tank mines and tanks appeared almost simultaneously. Back in 1917, at the Battle of Cambrai, Britain was the first to commit tank troops, inflicting heavy losses on Germany. The following year, the Germans created the first anti-tank mines by burying the modified ammunition in the soil and directly destroying the enemy's combat vehicles.
The photo shows the remains of "Deborah" in the Cambrai Tank Memorial, which is covered with anti-tank mines.
Between the First and Second World Wars, with the advancement of science and technology, the number of landmines increased, and about 21% of combat vehicles died from mines. Its main structure is composed of three parts: explosives, fuses and initiating mechanisms.
The first is the "anti-orbital lightning", its lead is a protruding elastic plate, under the action of downward air pressure, the elastic plate will rotate in the opposite direction, and the middle firing pin will hit the detonator, thus triggering **. When the bomb is detonated, it releases a high-velocity jet of metal, which can pass through the enemy's armor, destroy their tank, and destroy their tank.
Structural diagram of the MVCH-62 type ***62 anti-tank gun.
The second is the dual anti-track and anti-chassis mines, which use a variety of electromagnetic, sonic or vibration induction devices to detect and trigger mines, and their targets are the chassis or under the wheels of relatively weakly armored combat vehicles.
The third type is the anti-tank missile, which is similar to a missile launcher, which hides a large-diameter missile on the side of the road and launches it through millimeter-wave radar or other detection devices, targeting the side armor of the tank, while the latter is a relatively low defense area.
The fourth is a bomb called an "anti-tank gun", which, after detecting a combat vehicle, launches it to a height of more than 50 meters, while opening a parachute to search for the enemy below. Once detected, it detonates above the enemy's head and fires an EFP (EFP) that hits the target directly in the head, which ordinary tanks cannot withstand.
TM-62 is currently the most frequently used anti-orbit mine in the Russian-Ukrainian war, divided into TM-62M (metal mine shell), plastic mine shell TM-62P, shellless TM-62D and other 4 types, mainly TM-62M, quality 95-10 kg, starting pressure 200-500 kg, no secondary initiation chamber, MS-3 anti-blasting device at the bottom.
Anatomical pattern of the TM-62P2 plastic armored anti-tank mine.
The TM-62M anti-tank gun has a very large number of **, once it is run over by a combat vehicle, the tracks will inevitably be destroyed, and the chassis will also be greatly damaged, maybe it will be **. In the absence of a detonating device, it can be smashed with a fist, it can be cut with an ax, it can be cut with a saw, it can be used to cut, and it can be used to deal with.
BMP armored vehicle destroyed by TM-62M anti-tank guns.
Russia and Ukraine have planted a large number of anti-tank mines along roads, bridges, forests and other important areas along the forward positions that stretch for thousands of kilometers in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army has placed more than 1,000 to 20 million minefields in key areas on the border between northern Ukraine and Belarus, the largest of which is more than 10 kilometers long.
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a stalemate, the importance of anti-tank guns has become increasingly prominent, and at the same time, both countries have made various innovations in the use of anti-tank guns. In addition to conventional minelaying methods, there are also artillery, rockets, ground drones, drones and other methods, which can quickly, long-range, and covertly lay large areas of mines, posing a great threat to the enemy's armored units.