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The Teller mine was a German-made antitank mine common in World War II. With explosives sealed inside a sheet metal casing and fitted with a pressure-actuated fuze, Teller mines had a built-in carrying handle on the side. As the name suggests (''Teller'' is the German word for dish or plate) the mines were plate-shaped. Containing little more than 5.5 kilograms of TNT and a fuze activation pressure of approximately , the Teller mine was capable of blasting the tracks off any World War II-era tank or destroying a lightly armored vehicle. Because of its rather high operating pressure, only a vehicle or heavy object passing over the Teller mine would set it off. Of the two types of pressure-fuze available for Tellermines, the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze was notable for featuring an integral anti-handling device as standard:〔http://www.lexpev.nl/fuzesandigniters/germany/tmiz43.html〕 when the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze is inserted and the pressure plate (or screw cap) is screwed down into place, it shears a weak arming pin inside the fuze with an audible "snap". This action arms the anti-handling device. Thereafter, any attempt to disarm the mine by unscrewing the pressure plate (or screw cap) to remove the fuze will automatically release the spring-loaded firing pin inside it, triggering detonation. Since it is impossible to determine which fuze type has been installed, no pressure plate or screw cap should ever be removed from a Tellermine. The T.Mi.Z.43 fuze can be fitted to the Tellermine 35, 42 and 43 series.〔http://www.lexpev.nl/downloads/dontgetkilledbyminesandboobytraps.pdf〕 To hinder demining, all Teller mines featured two additional fuze wells (located on the side and underneath) to enable anti-handling devices to be attached, typically some form of pull-fuze. There were four models of Teller Mine made during World War II: * Teller Mine 43 * Teller Mine 42 * Teller Mine 35 * Teller Mine 29 Approximately 3,622,900 of these mines were produced by Germany from 1943 to 1944.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia: Teller Mine 43 )〕 ==Gallery== File:USA-A-Utah-p7b.jpg|Teller mine on Utah beach. Intended to explode against landing craft at high tide. File:Operation_%27market_Garden%27_%28the_Battle_For_Arnhem%29-_17_-_25_September_1944-_Nijmegen_and_Grave_17_-_20_September_1944_B10174.jpg|British engineers removing the charges which the Germans had set to blow the Nijmegen bridge, September 1944 Image:Tellermine 43 MN 2007.JPG|Tellermine 43 anti-tank mine 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teller mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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