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FM 5-31 Booby Traps

FM 5-31

Booby Traps

Army · FM · Sep 1965 · 130 pages

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1.Purpose and Scope a. This manual contains procedures, techniques, and expedients for the instruction of the soldier in the assembly, use, detection, and removal of boobytraps in combat. b. Included are descriptions and discussions of the design and functioning characteristics of standard demolition items -- firing devices, explosives, and accessories - and missiles, such as hand grenades, mortar ammunition, artillery ammunition, and bombs. c. This manual also contains information on a variety of items and indigenous materials useful for improvising firing devices, explosives, and pyrotechnic mixtures for guerrilla warfare appli- cations. d. Factory-produced boobytraps (dirty trick devices) are described. Most of these have been developed and used in the field by foreign armies. e.

DesignationFM 5-31

EditionSep 1965

StatusSuperseded

Pages130

FunctionEngineering

CollectionHistoric

Editions 2

References 6

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