Gravity-deployed munition with a mechanical gravity-controlled switch

In a land mine comprising a housing having two opposite external ends and adapted to be deployed and come to rest by gravity on either of said ends;

• said mine further comprising a separate explosive charge at each of said ends, and fuze means in said housing for selectively initiating the upper charge only, in response to a firing signal;
• said fuze means comprising:
• a gravity-controlled mechanical switch including a body formed with an elongated cavity oriented transverse to said ends and having two spaced outlet passages and an intermediate inlet passage, and a solid weight slidable in said elongated cavity;
• a separate firing train connecting each of said outlet passages to one of said charges;
• and
• firing means connected to said inlet passage for applying an explosive signal wave to said switch;
• said weight being slidable along said cavity by gravity, when said mine comes to rest, to a position wherein the firing train connected to the upper charge is exposed to said firing means and the firing means and the firing train connected to the lower charge is effectively isolated by said weight from said firing means.