Putkimiina

Or simply "pipe mine". Finland has not yet signed the Ottawa treaty, in which the countries promises to scrap their landmines. Different types of mines, including personell mines are very important in finnish defence planning. Many other countries that has signed the Ottawa treaty, have simply renamed some of the mines and thus making them "politically correct". It costs much money to replace the mines with other solutions with the same efficiency. As to yet the readiness brigades are the only ones that has got these other solutions, and they doesn´t use personell mines. Finland does not produce or export landmines, the last were produced 1981. All finnish landmines are stored during peace.

- Picture © Finnish Defence Forces

Lethal range: 15 meters
Wounding range: 30-50 meters
Weight: 800 g
Weight of explosives: 180 g
Manufactured in Finland

Sakaramiina 65-98

This is a simple and classical personell mine. Originally it was made entirely of plastic but in 1998 they were modified, with 8 grams of metal added. This makes it easier to find the mine with a metallic detector. The mine is supposed to be easy to deactivate as well. The meaning is not to make life easy for the enemy. Rather to make it easy for the finns after a war. Combat activites would most likely take part on finnish territory. Landmines similar to this, that could detonate when a metal detector was nearby has been scrapped.

Sakaramiina 65-98