Anti-Cruise Missile mines (Soviet & NATO proposals)

[Grey Havoc]

...The most detailed and interesting of the articles on Vietnam was
published in Vestnik protivovozdushnoy oborony by Major Ye. Dzhugashvili,
under the title "Combat with Low Altitude Targets."...


58 Dzhugashvili (1972; 85-86). The use of "mines" placed along possible
attack routes fused to detonate when an aircraft flies overhead is also
mentioned as one way to destroy very low altitude aircraft. This rather
odd approach also appears in several articles in the late- 1970s- -early
1980s concerning the cruise missile threat, but this appears to be the
first reference.


ORGANIZATIONAL AND BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS

IN SOVIET DEFENSE DECISION MAKING:

A CASE STUDY OF THE SOVIET AIR DEFENSE FORCES

by

JOHN WILLIAM RIX LEPINGWELL

The use of mines has also been proposed for combat
against cruise missiles and other low-flying targets.
Development of specialized small-scale sensors (acoustic
sensors for preliminary target detection and laser sensors
for semi-conductor sets, for pin-pointing coordinates) is
planned for these targets, as well as mines with self-forming
destructive components, whose action is
directed upward to an altitude of 100-150 meters.
According to the data of the magazine WEHR TECHNIC,
such mines could be utilized for air defense of
slow-moving and stationary objectives, and for creating
obstacles in the proposed cruise-missile flight paths.
Mines can be installed in advance, quickly excavated
and reinstalled. It is proposed that they be brought to
combat readiness and removed from readiness by use of
target-recognition radio channel equipment. Mine distribution
density in the terrain is determined by the
required target kill probability. The developers feel that
such mines must be low-cost and interference-resistant.


Battle Against Cruise Missiles
VESTNIK PROTIVOVOZDUSHNYY OBORONY
No 12, Dec 1988

 

[Jemiba]

That roughly falls in this category, I think: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,17864.msg173428.html#msg173428,
just deployed on land, maybe cheaper per single round, but certainly requiring much higher numbers.