MON-100

The MON-100 is a Soviet directional anti-personnel mine created in the early 1960s, built as a circular, sheet-metal-bodied fragmentation mine that takes its designation from its 100-meter lethal range. It weighs 5 kilograms, is concave and bowl-shaped with a webbing carrying handle, and detonates 2 kilograms of explosive to drive about 450 steel fragmentation rods outward. Like other Soviet directional mines it can be command-detonated with a manual inductor or triggered by a mechanical pull switch or seismic sensor, and is typically mounted above ground or in a tree to spread its fragments. It was deployed in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia, and was copied by other countries, including as the Vietnamese MDH-10 and the Cambodian KN-10.