The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An electrically operated explosive device that was buried in a road by Viet Cong fighters and recovered by Australian sappers from the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The three components consist of the explosive charge (top), the wooden triggering device (centre) and the two plastic battery packs that each hold three 1.5 volt batteries (bottom).
An example of a recovered shaped charge mine that had been placed by Viet Cong fighters and excavated by Sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers. The homemade wooden pressure contact plate (left)
An example of a booby trapped shaped charge mine that has been placed by Viet Cong fighters and excavated by Sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers. The homemade pressure contact plate (centre) i
Explosives, battery packs and a triggering device which were recovered from a captured Viet Cong arms cache during Operation Portsea.
A Viet Cong explosive device that has been discovered placed in a drainage culvert. The device consists of a block of TNT with an electrically fired detonator that can be command detonated via the red
Command pull improvised explosive device consisting of a plastic bottle and battery pack. The battery pack is made of 16 D cell batteries arranged in two tubes of eight, each wrapped in 1mm thick yell
A matrix of ball bearings in concrete that sat in the lower third of the charge casing for a directionally focused improvised explosive device (REL46089.002). It has fragmented and a number of the bal