Demilitarization Plan for Non Self-Destruct and Self-Destruct Antipersonnel Land Mines

摘要

The United States goal is to have all non self-destruct land mines demilitarized by 31 December 1999. To support this goal, this report pmvides recommendations for demilitarizing these mines as well as self-destmcting land mines. Although the use of open buminglopen detonation (OBIOD) is the primary method for destroying obsolete munitions because of its simplicity and low cost, increasing environmental regulations are expected to severely limit, if not eliminate the use of OBIOD in the near future. For this reason, OBIOD was not considered in this plan as a demilitarization method. The demilitarization methods and technologies that are addressed in this plan have either been developed by the Armament Systems Process Division of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center under the direction of the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center, or are based on existing methods used for other items. All methods that are presented in this plan allow for the recovery of materials, with the degree of recovery tied to the activities and economics of the demilitarization method.