The POMZ-2M is a stake-mounted anti-personnel fragmentation mine made in the former Soviet Union. The body of the mine is a cast-iron thick-walled tube with five rows of cast fragmentation “chunks”. This is usually mounted on a short wooden stake. Because the mine is easy to copy, dimensions and colour may vary. The body of the mine is usually painted olive green. The wooden stakes may be green, brown or unpainted.
This is the Russian POMZ-2M, a high-explosive (HE), cylindrical, cast-iron body, anti-personnel (AP), stake-mounted, landmine which is designed to wound or kill by its fragmentation also made in North Korea and has been widely copied being one of the most common fragmentation landmines encountered worldwide. It is produced with slight modifications in China as the Type 59 fragmentation landmine, the Czech Republic as the PP-Mi-Sk and Yugoslavia as the PMR. The POMZ-2M is the most current in a long line of Russian stake landmines. One of the major improvements in the POMZ-2M over the original POMZ-2 is that the fuze cavity is threaded and has a gasket to prevent water from entering the landmine body. The POMZ-2M has 5 fragmentation rows while the POMZ-2 has 6 and is most commonly found with the MUV series of pull fuzes. The POMZ-2M contains 75g of TNT to propel fragmentation to a lethal radius of 10 metres on actuation, it is often found in rows or clusters of 4.
The POMZ-2M has a threaded hole in the top into which its fuze is screwed. The mine has been copied in many countries.
Height: 107mm (mine body only)
Diameter: 60mm
Main charge: 75g TNT
Fuze: The fuze is usually an MUV with a tripwire attached.
