Anti-personnel weapon
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anti-personnel-weapon-301-18650177
title:
Anti-personnel weapon
text:
An anti-personnel weapon is a weapon primarily used to maim or kill infantry and other personnel not behind armor, as opposed to attacking structures or vehicles, or hunting game. The development of defensive fortification and combat vehicles gave rise to weapons designed specifically to attack them, and thus a need to distinguish between those systems and ones intended to attack people. For instance, an anti-personnel landmine will explode into small and sharp splinters that tear flesh but have
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Materiel designed to kill and injure infantry units
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-personnel_weapon
date created:
date modified:
2022-06-01T15:27:38Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/M18_Claymore_Mine.jpg","width":1432,"height":1116}
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13
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