12.06.2023, Donetsk.
The Ukrainian armed units actively use German anti-tank mines in the Donetsk direction, a sapper of the Yug army group said, RIA Novosti informed on June 11.
“Ukrainian armed units are equipped with NATO weapons. We encounter German anti-tank and anti-personnel mines very often,” the Russian serviceman said.
The sapper reported that he encountered a mine AT2. This mine is installed remotely, with the help of Mars Multiple Rocket Launcher System (MRLS) (analog of HIMARS).
It is reported that it is a mine with a warhead to penetrate the belly of armour vehicles, which is also dangerous for people.
Open sources report that a single salvo of MLRS can plant more than 300 mines. The mine is compact, plastic, with a thin metal casing, and has a trigger sensor in the form of an antenna. The weight of the mine is about 2.2 kg of which 900 g of explosives. Can be equipped with a magnetic sensor, which can react to a metal detector or heavy armor plates of an armored vest.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
