| The ZAPS (Lit; Zimbabwe Anti-Personnel Shrapnel) aka 'Ploughshear' is a circular, plastic bodied, directional anti-personnel mine which is designed to wound or kill by
fragmentation.
The olive or brown coloured mine resembles a large bowl. The rear face of the mine is convex and the front face concave. There is one fuze well that runs through the centre
of the mine with reinforcing ribs radiating from the well in a star-like pattern. The well is threaded to attach a mechanical fuze at the front. The rear will also accept an electric
detonator. The mine can be aimed by sighting it through the fuze well.
ZAPS can be command detonated or tripwire activated with only 2.5 kg of pull. Once the fuze has been activated, the detonator will function and carry on the explosive train to
the main charge. The explosive detonates and propels approximately 450 steel fragments in a 30 degree cone to a lethal radius of 30m and hazardous radius of up to 250m.
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