S-Mine

S-Mine 35. Note the fuze is in the centre of the mine body; the later S-Mine 44's fuze was instead offset.

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S-Mine 35.

The Schrapnellmine is perhaps the most well-known bounding antipersonnel mine. Developed in the 1930s by Nazi Germany, the mine consists of an outer casing surrounding the mine body, with a propellant charge underneath. When triggered, either by applying pressure to the prongs, operating a tripwire rigged to them, or by any other type of fuze that might be substituted, the propellant charge is set off, throwing the body 3-5 feet vertically whereupon the main charge detonates, creating a horizontal spread of shrapnel with a lethal radius of around 22 yards and a casualty radius of around 150 yards. This earned the mine the nickname Bouncing Betty among American troops, though this nickname has since often been applied to any bounding antipersonnel mine, not just the S-Mine. Jumping Jack was also used by Australian and New Zealand soldiers, while the French called it "The Silent Soldier".

S-Mine dischargers were also mounted in brackets on the hulls of early production Wehrmacht armoured vehicles, used for close-range anti-infantry defence; early versions of the Tiger I had five such devices. These were essentially small mortars that fired the mine's bounding body as a projectile.

The S-Mine appears in the following:

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage - Fünf Nächte)	Vsevolod Sanayev	Starshina Yefim Kozlov		1961
Hell Is for Heroes				1962
The General's Daughter				1999
The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie)			on the image	2010
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed				2012
Land of Mine		German POW		2015
Battle of Jangsari, The		South Korean student-soldier		2019

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Release Date
Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 2			Training	1983
Front				2014
NCIS - Season 12			"The Lost Boys" (S12E23), "Neverland" (S12E24)	2014 - 2015
NCIS - Season 13			"Stop the Bleeding" (S13E01) (recap)	2015-2016

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory				2003
Battlefield: Vietnam	Bouncing Betty			2004
Call of Duty: World at War	Bouncing Betty			2008
Combat Arms	M16A1 Mine			2008
Company of Heroes 2				2013
Sniper Elite III				2014
Heroes & Generals	S-Mine			2016
Call of Duty: WWII	S-Mine 44			2017
Post Scriptum	"S-Mine"			2018
Battlefield V	AP Mine			2018
Enlisted				2021

Note: diagrams

Diagram of the body of an S-Mine.

Diagram of the sensor of an S-Mine.