I can't think of a better way to remove those pesky civilians from Ukrainian battlefields, thus clearing the way for real soldiers to get down to the serious business of annihilating one another with gusto, without having to worry about those bothersome civilians getting in their way. Though they might want to be careful about stepping in civilians littering the fields and slipping, thus ingloriously and ungracefully busting their asses.
The Russians used PFM-1 mines during their Afghanistan vacation in the 80's. We called them "butterfly mines" because of their shape. They were only about 5 inches or so across the wings, so tiny with small charges. They usually wouldn't kill, but had a habit of blowing legs off and the like. The Russians seeded them all over Afghanistan by dropping them in masses from choppers.
They were still blowing the legs and arms off kids who found them and tried to play with them (because they looked like toys) years later.
Makes you wonder just who the Ukrainians are fighting for, if not their own civilians - who they seem unfazed about blowing up on the regular. I also wonder who it was that had the bright thought - "You know, they Russians are just not laying down enough civilian-killers. What can we do to litter the battlefields with more of those?"
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The Russians used PFM-1 mines during their Afghanistan vacation in the 80's. We called them "butterfly mines" because of their shape. They were only about 5 inches or so across the wings, so tiny with small charges. They usually wouldn't kill, but had a habit of blowing legs off and the like. The Russians seeded them all over Afghanistan by dropping them in masses from choppers.
They were still blowing the legs and arms off kids who found them and tried to play with them (because they looked like toys) years later.
Makes you wonder just who the Ukrainians are fighting for, if not their own civilians - who they seem unfazed about blowing up on the regular. I also wonder who it was that had the bright thought - "You know, they Russians are just not laying down enough civilian-killers. What can we do to litter the battlefields with more of those?"
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