Concealed devices set to injure or kill a person who disturbs them, from the punji stake and the mantrap to the spring gun, the cartridge trap, improvised explosive devices and the Soviet Molniya trap. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a booby trap, trap or improvised explosive device. It excludes factory-made land mines, which sit in the land mines group. Traps are cheap and often improvised, and they have been used by insurgents, guerrilla forces and defenders from antiquity through the wars of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Improvised explosive device, Wikipedia
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An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
Booby trap, Wikipedia
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A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise another human being or an animal.
Spring-gun (Wikipedia)
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A spring-gun, also known as a booby trap gun, is a gun, often a shotgun, rigged to fire when a string or other triggering device is tripped by contact of sufficient force to "spring" the trigger so that anyone stumbling over or treading on it would discharge the gun.
Mantrap, Wikipedia
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A mantrap (also written as man-trap and man trap) is a mechanical physical security device for catching poachers, art thieves and other trespassers.
Punji stick (Wikipedia)
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The punji sticks or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake.
Molniya (explosive trap), Wikipedia
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Molniya (Russian: молния, lit. 'lightning') was an explosive device used to booby trap certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache items, such as shortwave radio receivers, cryptographic materials, and allegedly even suitcase nuclear devices.
Cartridge trap, Wikipedia
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A cartridge trap is a very simple trap, made from four main components: a bamboo pipe, a piece of wood, a nail and a small arms cartridge.
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