MON-50
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thumb|alt=A green plastic-body mine supported by a pair of scissor legs, with "К ПРОТИВНИКУ" (K PROTIVNIKU; to the enemy) stenciled on the front.|Non-armed MON-50 displayed by the Swedish military's EOD and Demining Centre. Text reads "К ПРОТИВНИКУ" (k protivniku, "towards enemy").
The MON-50 () is a Soviet rectangular, slightly convex, plastic bodied, directional type of anti-personnel mine designed to wound or kill by explosive fragmentation. It first entered service in 1965 and is a copy of the American M18 Claymore with a few differences. Its name is derived from Russian мина осколочная направленного (mina oskolochnaya napravlennogo), "directional fragmentation mine".