Editing Land mine (section)

==Manufacturers==
Before the Ottawa Treaty was adopted, the Arms Project of [[Human Rights Watch]] identified "almost 100 companies and government agencies in 48 countries" that had manufactured "more than 340 types of anti-personnel land mines in recent decades". Five to ten million mines were produced per year with a value of $50 to $200&nbsp;million. The largest producers were probably China, Italy and the [[Soviet Union]]. The companies involved included giants such as [[Daimler AG|Daimler-Benz]], the [[Fiat Chrysler Automobiles|Fiat Group]], the [[Daewoo]] Group, [[RCA]] and [[General Electric]].<ref>{{harvnb|Landmines: a Deadly Legacy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/gen2/General2.htm |title=Exposing the source: U.S. Companies and the Production of Antipersonnel Mines |last=Human Rights Watch |issue=2 |volume=9 |date=April 1997 |access-date=June 4, 2019 |website=hrw.org |archive-date=December 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228153605/https://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/gen2/General2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2017, the ''Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor'' identified four countries that were "likely to be actively producing" land mines: India, [[Myanmar]], [[Pakistan]] and [[South Korea]]. Another seven states reserved the right to make them but were probably not doing so: China, [[Cuba]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], Russia, Singapore, and [[Vietnam]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.the-monitor.org/en-gb/the-issues/faqs/most-common/how-many-countries-produce-mines-or-cluster-munitions.aspx |title=How many countries produce mines or cluster munitions? |website=Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor: The Issues |publisher=International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition |access-date=June 4, 2019 |archive-date=June 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604223555/http://www.the-monitor.org/en-gb/the-issues/faqs/most-common/how-many-countries-produce-mines-or-cluster-munitions.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

In recent years, arms industry manufacturers have been utilizing non-static mines that can be specifically targeted in order to remove the imprecision of anti-personnel devices, promoting the use of movable underground systems, movable above ground systems and systems that can be expired (automatically or manually via strategic operators.)
Development of systems such as Termite, by arms firm EMC Operations has led to criticism from proponents of past multilateral agreements against the placement of land mines and submunitions due to expectations of similar long-dormancy period issues after systems break or fail after it was announced that vehicles would likely be armed to destroy static targets, rather than focus purely on demining efforts.