Tecmash unveils world's first remote-controlled anti-personnel mine with contactless detonator
MOSCOW. May 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Concern Tecmash (part of the Rostec state corporation) presented a new mining system developed at the Scientific-Research Engineering Institute (AO NIII) facilities, called KPOM-3 cluster with POM-3 remote-controlled anti-personnel fragmentation mines, at an advanced technology day of Russian law enforcement agencies, the company's spokesperson said.
"It is a unique development: the POM-3 mine that forms part of the cluster is the world's first remote-controlled anti-personnel mine with a contactless detonator. The mine has a contactless target sensor and five set times for self-elimination. The POM-3 mine's response time was increased by a factor of 1.3," Tecmash's General Director Sergei Rusakov said, according to a statement obtained by Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
AO NIII's General Director Igor Smirnov said the priority of the KPOM-3 and POM-3 technical solutions is protected by two invention patents received by AO NIII. "The POM-3 mine conforms to the requirements of the Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Convention," Smirnov said.
Tecmash's demo program includes practical tests of a Balkan 40-millimeter automatic anti-personnel grenade-launching complex, an RPG-7V1 hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, smoke grenades, non-lethal weapons, and so on, the Tecmash spokesperson said.
