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MAUS
Antipersonnel Mine

Description
The MAUS is a flat cylinder mine that comprises two threaded steel retaining rings holding a neoprene pressure dome and plastic base against a threaded plastic mine body. The mine is sealed with three large 'o' rings. The MAUS has only one opening in its base, for a detonator well, hereas the MAUS/1 has an additional plug that either provides access to the expansion bulb or possibly acts as a vent from the diaphragm. The mine uses a pressure pneumatic fuze, which prevents the armed mine from exploding on ground impact without a fuze arming delay. This resistance to explosion caused by the rapid pressure pulse on impact also provides resistance to initiation from overpressure blast or flail countermeasures. The Italian Mina antiuomo Seminabile, MAUS, is the initial production version of the MAUS/1, which is currently used by the Italian Army. This scatterable antipersonnel blast mine was designed to be hand emplaced or scattered from up to 100 meters altitude at 100-m/s velocity. The MAUS, which is now obsolete, entered production in 1965 as an adaptation of an ealier prototype version with an all plastic body.

Manufacturing Country
Italy

General Information
Flat Cylinder
46 mm in Height
89 mm in Diameter
0.275 kg total weight
Plastic, neoprene, and steel case
OD Green
Explosive type - Tetryl
Main explosive weight - 0.0155 kg