antipersonnel
Designed against people
Antipersonnel describes weapons or devices designed to kill or injure people rather than destroy equipment or structures: antipersonnel mines, antipersonnel grenades.
The term is military and appears most often in discussions of weapons treaties and humanitarian concerns about indiscriminate harm to civilians.
Buried pressure-activated explosive
- mineOre excavation site
- grenadeHandheld thrown explosive
- claymoreScottish great sword
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
booby-trap · IED · explosive · detonator · flechette · fragmentation · projectile · munition
Ground combat troops
- combatArmed hostile engagement
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
counterinsurgency · engagement · guerrilla · minefield · deployment · soldiers · battalion · platoon
Removing buried explosives
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- amputeeOne without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
civilian · victim · ban · treaty · Ottawa · advocacy · rehabilitation · remnants
Obstruction preventing passage
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- deterrentThing that discourages action
- denialRefusal to accept reality
obstruction · emplacement · concealment · camouflage · buried · hidden · positioned · strategic
landmine
Buried pressure-activated explosive
shrapnel · booby-trap · IED · explosive · detonator · flechette · fragmentation · projectile · munition · ordnance
infantry
Ground combat troops
ambush · counterinsurgency · engagement · guerrilla · minefield · deployment · soldiers · battalion · platoon · artillery
demining
Removing buried explosives
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- amputeeOne without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
casualty · civilian · victim · ban · treaty · Ottawa · advocacy · rehabilitation · remnants · contamination
barrier
Obstruction preventing passage
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- deterrentThing that discourages action
denial · obstruction · emplacement · concealment · camouflage · buried · hidden · positioned · strategic · protected
antipersonnelantitank
Designed against armored vehicles
antiship · bunker-busting · antiaircraft · anti-aircraft · anti-submarine
- antipersonnel mineGround-buried anti-infantry explosive
personal, personality, anti, personally, impersonal, personable, personnel, personalize, nonperson