Area Denial Artillery Munition
Illustration — FM 6-40 depiction of the M731 155mm projectile, featuring bisected view and close up of an individual M72 land mine Area denial artillery munition (ADAM) is a family of United States land mines and 155 mm artillery projectiles. The mines carried by these projectiles are the M67 long-duration anti-personnel mines and M72 short-duration anti-personnel landmines intended to maim or kill enemy combatants. The duration refers to the self-destruct time, which is set at the time of manufacture to 4 or 48 hours.
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Area Denial Artillery Munition
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Illustration — FM 6-40 depiction of the M731 155mm projectile, featuring bisected view and close up of an individual M72 land mine Area denial artillery munition (ADAM) is a family of United States land mines and 155 mm artillery projectiles. The mines carried by these projectiles are the M67 long-duration anti-personnel mines and M72 short-duration anti-personnel landmines intended to maim or kill enemy combatants. The duration refers to the self-destruct time, which is set at the time of manufacture to 4 or 48 hours.
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M67/M72 mine
M67/M72 mine
Once the mine lands, it launches seven tripwires before arming itself. Any disturbance of the tripwires will trigger the mine. The mine is detonated only via electric current; if its battery charge drops below a pre-set level, the mine self-destructs. Even if it fails to self-destruct, the battery will fully discharge after 14 days, rendering the mine inactive. The mines contain a spherical warhead in a cavity, along with 51 g of M10 liquid propellant. The cavity allows the propellant fluid to settle under gravity in the correct position beneath the warhead, making it launch upward irrespective of the mine's orientation. Upon activation the spherical warhead is launched to a height of 1 to, where it detonates, producing approximately 600 fragments travelling at 900 m/s.
• Self-destruct time: • M67: 48 hours • M72: 4 hours • Height: 82.5 mm • Width: 57 mm • Weight: 540 g • Explosive content: 21.9 g of composition A5 (RDX/wax)
M692/M731 155 mm projectile
M692/M731 155 mm projectile
• Weight (fuzed): 46.7 kg • Calibre: 155 mm • Length: 899 mm • Contents: • M692: 36 M67 mines (long delay) • M731: 36 M72 mines (short delay)
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- 1.FM 20-32 Mine/Countermine Operations Headquarters, United States Department of the Army, Februar 2004, „3-11“ bis „3-13“ https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/FM%2020-32%20W%20CH%201-4.pdf
- 2.Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 3-17, Department of the Navy, Februar 2000, Appendix A: FASCAM Characteristics https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/usmc/mcwp/3-17/appa.pdf
- 3.Who is Honeywell?, 1973 Verleger: Clergy and Laymen Concerned; National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex, Seite 6–7
- 4.Department of the Army Historical Summary, Band 972, United States Army Center of Military History, 1980, S. 237–238 https://books.google.de/books?id=hW697cHss4UC&pg=PA237
- 5.Remote Anti-Armor Munition (RAAM), GlobalSecurity.org
- 6.Landmine Monitor Report 2002, Verlag Human Rights Watch, 2002, ISBN 978-1-56432-277-7, S. 681https://books.google.de/books?id=ZPj16Xxyi9kC&pg=PA681
- 7.M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition (PDM)
- 8.Brian M. Green, John M. Gallagher: Reviewing The Army's Mine, Countermine, Nonlethal Weapons, and Demining Programs., in: „Army RD & A Bulletin“, Januar-Februar 1999, S. 46 https://books.google.de/books?id=8-j9V0ITRpMC&pg=PA46
- 9.M1023 Remote Area Denial Artillery Munition (RADAM), GlobalSecurity.org
- 10.Information on U.S. Use of Land Mines in the Persian Gulf War, Government Accountability Office, September 2002, S. 7, 39 https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-02-1003.pdf
- 11.Munitions Cryofracture Demil Facility for the Area Denial Artillery Munition (ADAM) 155MM Projectile, 2015, United States Army Research Development and Engineering Command
- 12.Howard Altman. Anti-Personnel Landmines Included In U.S. Aid Package To Ukraine For First Time. The Warzone. 2024-11-22.
- 13.@GrandpaRoy2. Ukrainian gunners of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade prepare for firing American M692 155mm projectiles, each containing 36 M72 anti-personnel landmines. X.com. 2025-01-24.
- 14.M67 / M72 Area Denial Anti-personnel Mine (ADAM), GlobalSecurity.org
- 15.John Pike: M67 / M72 Area Denial Anti-personnel Mine (ADAM), Federation of American Scientists, 21. Januar 1999
- 16., United States Army, April 1994, S. „3-143“
- 17.David Hambling: The Creation of ADAM, the Insidious Radioactive Cluster Mine 7. April 2016, Popular Mechanics
- 18.John Pike: Family of Scatterable Mines – FASCAM, Federation of American Scientists, 19. Februar 2000
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