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The NVA used factory made land mines supplied to them by the USSR and Red China. The VC often made their mines from dud US bombs and artillery shells. US/allied forces used the anti-personnel claymore mine (command detonated).
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe vast majority of vehicular land mines were factory built in Communist China (referred to as "Chicom" (meaning Chinese Communist) grenades, rifles, mines, etc.) and simply sent across the border via truck. They were metallic in construction, roughly 15" across and about 4" tall; and extremely powerful. One such mine could shatter a solid rock (boulder) that was the size of a common full sized pick-up truck.
These mines normally just blew one to two sets of road wheels off of the standard US Army M48 Patton tank (a 52 ton tank). However, the same mine would completely destroy an ACAV or Sheridan light tank, by igniting fires and explosions within the armored vehicles.
The rest were imported from the US.
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