Chinese Type TM-62 A/T Mine.

[ron3350]

I need an ID on this Chinese green plastic anti-tank mine which I think is a copy of the Russian TM-62P2 mine?
It has no filler plugs unless the base screws off (it is too tight) and side ribs.
The strap looks well worn and it had traces of soil on it so maybe it was buried.

335mm x 88mm high without the fuze. Fuze is 118mm diam x 46mm high. The inner part tilts on 2 springs and seals on a black rubber gasket.
Is it a real mine or a practice one?

 

[sgdbdr]

I think the round symbol at the beginning of the marking means it's a practice mine.

 

[DF-41A]

The stencils on the front shows it's a TM-62 practice mine. However TM-62 is not known to be adopted by PLA. So my guess is that it's a kind of training equipment for mine sweeping/defusing. A lot of these were made, mimicing US/Russian mines, others too.

 

[pzgr40]

the fuze looks like a copy -what else to expect from China - of the MB-62 fuze

 

[Eggburt1969]

the fuze looks like a copy -what else to expect from China - of the MB-62 fuze

I'm not sure if you posted the fuze's designation in Latin script or Cyrillic, but the fuze would seem to be a copy of the Soviet/Russian MV-62 (RU: МВ-62) model. As far as I'm aware, I'm not sure about other languages, in German the Cyrillic letter 'В' (GB: V) gets transliterated as a 'W'. As such the MV-62 is normally seen as the MW-62 in German texts.

The mine itself would seem more closely related to TM-62P (RU: ТМ-62П), but it is not an exact copy. The TM-62P2 (RU: ТМ-62П2) is a similar design to the TM-62P, but the Chinese mine seems to share more features with the TM-62P than the TM-62P2.

 

[The Lieutenant]

The fuze looks like the Romanian P-62. The body of the mine itself seems different from the TM-62P, at least as far as the ribs and the upper part where the fuze is located. The dimensions also don't add up: I find the TM-62P to have a diameter of 310mm and a height of 100mm.