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These are dropped in civilian areas and look like random clutter and are difficult to spot.

https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1553972823399583745?t=fU4mpeOU5tv36LeD11wl9w&s=19

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

HRW urges Ukraine to probe its military’s use of banned mines (cw amputee pics)

The blame game on these petal mines has been ongoing since the start of the war, but evidence points towards ukkkraine dropping them and then accusing Russia of doing it despite banned under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty – which Ukraine signed in 1999 and ratified in 2005.

Guess who didn't sign? no-oil joker-amerikkklap

WHILE STOCKPILING BANNED LAND MINES, U.S. BOASTS ABOUT ITS RECORD OF CLEARING THEM The U.N. has adopted an international Mine Ban Treaty, but the United States refuses to sign on

[-] DanComrd@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just wanted to add to this that neither China and Russia signed it, which is expected if the biggest imperialist nation on Earth doesn't fuckin sign it either. But the funniest of them all is this article that says the the one and only black "woke" president created an exception for the Korean Peninsula obama-socialism

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

lol weapons treaties don’t mean jack shit

August 2022. Awful of course but just wanted to point out this isn't recent.

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Well that's just straight up fuckin evil doomer

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

any child and dog on earth would pick one of those up sadness-abysmal

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

The hell is a petal mine? It sounds like a crime against humanity, is that what it is?

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago

From Wikipedia, it is a mine that can be scattered from a plane. When dispersed it glides down to the ground slowly and then explodes upon contact.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

It doesn't explode on contact, it becomes an infantry mine and explodes when disturbed after already being on the ground. So, they can just drop these mines from a plane, they'll scatter around on the ground, and then when a civilian gets too close to the mine hours, days, or years later, it blows up.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah sorry. That's what I meant.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, something that every person in the chain of command if they’re used should be literally drawn and quartered

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus who the fuck invents these things

Before seeing this post, I would pick this up

[-] Staines@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

America invented them and used them in Vietnam. The Soviets copied them.

They're extremely simple soft body plastic with liquid explosives. Squishing them and increasing the pressure of the liquid inside sets them off. Enough explosive to take most of your foot off.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Jesus who the fuck invents these things

This mine in particular was developed in the USSR and used in Afghanistan. Production and use continues with the Russian Federation.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FFS. It does look like other poster is correct, the original design is of US making, but fuck anyone who made these communist or not

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it is indeed very similar to the BLU-43 mine developed by the US and used in Vietnam. They are not only very similar in shape but they also have the same goal: inflict heavy wounds instead of outright killing.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I guess that's what they're doing with their drone people

And since most of the people using drones now probably aren't even military, they're just...giving mines to civilians and saying 'scatter these appropriately'?

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Between the depleted uranium and now these mines, it's clear Ukraine knows that it's not going to get this territory back, so they'll just poison and salt the earth out of spite.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

This is just deliberate terrorism they've bestowed upon the people of donbass since 2014.

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Good point. Forgot that they had been shelling and bombing the towns in order to save them

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

But the redditors told me they were going to disassemble the bombs and use them as drone grenades, and that's why it was okay to give them cluster bombs!

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