Wes wrote:

Trevor Jones wrote:


Get up to date maps of the land mined areas.

Never walk off the pavement or road surface.

Wait for another 150 years or so, and you can ignore this advice,
mostly. By then, most of the mines should be no longer functional.

Beautiful country. Shame about the land mines.



I think Vietnam will be a tourist destination first. The mines and dud
ordinance are older.

Wes

They are older technology, too, with a shorter lifespan.

A lot of the mines used in the Balkans were very compact, plastic
bodied, and well sealed against ingress of moisture.

Sadly, they will stay working, for a very long time.

The nasty ones wer two sizes of AP mines, that were about the size of
a boot polish tin, both the large and small sizes. Those are the PMA2,
and PMA3 mines.During the festivities there, a lot of them were used to
install perimeter security around camps or trench emplacements, and left
when the occupants departed.
http://www.nolandmines.com/minesPMA3.htm
http://www.nolandmines.com/minesPMA2.htm
http://www.nolandmines.com/minesPROM.htm

Nasty ****.

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/land...in_the_balkans

The anti tank mines were usually considered high value items, and were
picked up and reused, if the guy that installed them was able, but there
are a pile of them left out there too.

Nothing quite like seeing pictures of anti-tank mines set in trees as
booby traps against helicopters landing in an area...or a flock of sheep
that got taken out by a bounding AP mine, in a field that they had been
using for the previous several years...

It's gonna be a long time, before the woods are safe to walk in over
there.

Cheers
Trevor Jones