Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War - Bennett Park Raiders

CHAPTER 5
MINE WARFARE
Mine warfare is a favorite technique with the guerrilla. It is a relatively
inexpensive way to attack personnel and vehicles. Most
Mujahideen mines were anti-tank and anti-vehicular. When the
Mujahideen employed anti-personnel mines, they prefered the directional
mine (similar to the U.S. claymore mine). Soviet mines were
mostly anti-personnel. During the war, the Mujahideen were supplied
with many types of foreign anti-tank mines. Often, the Mujahideen
would stack three anti-tank mines on top of each other to guarantee a
catastrophic kill. Many Afghans are inveterate tinkerers and they
preferred to make their own antitank mines from unexploded ordnance
and other antitank mines.