PTM-3 mine
Soviet scatterable anti-tank mine
The PTM-3 (Russian: ПТМ-3: ПротивоТанковая Мина-3) is a Soviet scatterable self-liquidating shaped charge anti-tank mine. The mine's case is made up of a stamped steel body with notches in its side. The notches allow the mine to produce a shaped charge effect on five sides - 4 on the sides, and one on the end face. The mine has two arming stages - pyrotechnic and mechanical, and has a magnetic influence battery-powered fuze BT-06 (Russian: БТ-06). The mine can be delivered using the BM-30 Smerch (9M55K4), BM-27 Uragan (9M59), BM-21 Grad (9M22K) MLRS, helicopter-mounted minelaying system VSM-1, remote mining machine UMZ (Russian: УМЗ) or portable mining kit PKM (Russian: ПКМ: Переносной Комплект Минирования). During the Russo-Ukrainian war, the mine has been dropped from Shahed drones. It cannot be placed manually, and must only be placed using remote minelaying systems. The mine was introduced in 1951.
Action
The mine can be deployed on soil with various minelaying systems utilizing KPTM-3 cassettes - each containing one PTM-3 mine. A rope is attached to the body of the cassette and the pin of the mine.
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