eli5: Do real mines explode the moment it is stepped on or when the foot is released?

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Saw too much movies where people step on mines and they don’t explode if the foot stay on. Do real mines work this way?

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Most of them go boom immediately. There are some that may wait after being triggered because they work by launching themselves upward to chest height and exploding into a circle of shrapnel to take out a whole group (but those typically use tripwires and launch immediately as well).

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