Landmine GYATA-64 Hungarian antipersonnel mine Inert in excellent condition

Landmine GYATA-64 Hungarian antipersonnel mine Inert in excellent condition

These relics of the cold war have been cleaned, inspected and are in excellent condition.

They include an inert fuse that will release a firing plunger.

These are identical to live mines in every detail except for no energetic material.

From Wikipedia 

“The GYATA-64 is a Hungarian antipersonnel landmine, very similar to the Russian PMN mine in design and appearance. However, the Gyata-64 mine has a 300 gram explosive charge compared with the 249 gram charge in a PMN mine. As a result, the Gyata-64 is the most powerful AP blast mine commonly encountered, for which reason it is particularly deadly.

Hungary ceased production of all antipersonnel mines before 1995 [1] and by 1998 had destroyed its stock pile of 149,686 GYATA-64 mines.[1] Approximately 1,500 were retained for training and research as of 2004. Legacy stockpiles may exist in some foreign countries, in addition to those already planted in existing minefields. Examples have been found in Mozambique, Angola, Lebanon and Yemen.”

This is the Hungarian GYATA-64 (Gyalogsági Taposó Akna), a High-Explosive Blast (HE-Blast), delay-armed, pressure-operated, Anti-Personnel (AP), blast landmine based on the design of the Russian PMN.

The landmine has a Bakelite body with a flat black rubber pressure plate, which engages with the sidewall of the landmine body.

The GYATA-64 fuze runs transversely through the landmine body, with the arming assembly and pin protruding from one side.

The pin and the lead-shear delay mechanism in the arming assembly retain a spring-loaded striker.

The detonator plug assembly protrudes from the opposite side of the landmine body.

Unlike the PMN, the stab-sensitive detonator and booster assembly in the GYATA-64 are attached to the plug.

In the center of the landmine is a spring-loaded plunger with a key-hole shaped shutter in the lower section to retain the striker.