anti-personnel
Adjective
Meaning
anti-personnel
(military) Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.
An anti-personnel mine will kill a soldier but is ineffective against a tank.
Synonyms
Examples
Anti-tank minefields can be scattered with anti-personnel mines to make clearing them manually more time-consuming; and anti-personnel minefields are scattered with anti-tank mines to prevent the use of armored vehicles to clear them quickly.
Anti-handling devices can be found on both anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines, either as an integral part of their design or as improvised add-ons.
And, in addition to high-explosive anti-tank rounds, the M50’s recoilless rifles could be loaded with anti-personnel canister ammunition filled with metallic flechettes.
; Area Denial Artillery Munition System (ADAMS) : An artillery round that releases anti-personnel mines.
In most cases these minefields consist of a combination of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, with the anti-personnel mines making removal of the anti-tank mines more difficult.
It was estimated that these minefields had anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines.