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- See also changes related to Mine (land warfare), or pages that link to Mine (land warfare) or to this page or whose text contains "Mine (land warfare)".
- Mine (disambiguation) [r]: Disambiguation page, linking to several different kinds of mines, including resource extraction and military [e]
Parent topics
- Land warfare [r]: The operations of predominantly land-based military forces to control areas of ground or defeat other land forces; separate air and naval services support these operations; they involve combat arms such as infantry, armor, artillery, combat engineers, army aviation, and special operations, as well as combat support and combat service support [e]
- Explosives [r]: Explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitroglycerin. [e]
Subtopics
- Anti-tank warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-tank weapon [r]: A guided or unguided weapon intended to penetrate armored fighting vehicles; may be a cannon-fired projectile, unguided rocket, gravity bomb, cluster submunition or land mine, or other means of disabling or destroying the target [e]
- Antipersonnel cluster submunition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antitank cluster submunition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. [e]
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Defense
- Assault Breacher Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Combat engineer [r]: Ground combat troops trained and equipped to improve the mobility of one's own side by breaching enemy obstacles, building bridges, etc.; blocking enemy mobility with barriers, demolition, mine warfare, etc. [e]
- Demining [r]: A subset of mine warfare, usually refers to clearing land mines after the end of conflict; it is sometimes called humanitarian demining, and is often done by organizations much more poorly equipped than combat engineers [e]
Field experience
Vietnam War
Iran-Iraq War
- French support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war [r]: French technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; France and the Soviet Union were the leading military suppliers to Iraq [e]
- Italian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
Afghanistan War (2001-)
- Farah Province [r]: A province on Afghanistan's western border with Iran. [e]
- Shomali Plain [r]: A plateau north of Kabul which is mainly agricultural. [e]
- Boobytrap [r]: An improvised destructive device, not necessarily explosive, whose destructive property is triggered by an action of the victim [e]
- Improvised explosive device [r]: A destructive device, not completely made from purpose-built military components, that is intended to cause destruction by means of an explosive charge and perhaps other components that increase damage [e]
- Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- BLU-91-B (submunition) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cluster munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Future Combat Systems [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fuze [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Khmer Rouge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lao Cai Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Littoral Combat Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M109 howitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M242 Bushmaster [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M26 (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M30 (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MGM-140 ATACMS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mine (naval warfare) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Physicians for Human Rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tank (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description