The “toy” like appearance is pretty obviously an emergent side-effect. Much less for wanting of an “I would NEVER!” attitude regarding the hypothesis of aiming

The “toy” like appearance is pretty obviously an emergent side-effect. Much less for wanting of an “I would NEVER!” attitude regarding the hypothesis of aiming these weapons at little kids; but more to the point, you cen see the intent of the design is generic and unassuming, and not actually coaxing of an audience. It’s designed for air drop, so it has aerodynamic wings. It’s a mine, so it needs to blend into the appearance of the terrain (all mines employ booby trap tactics on some level, since they cannot rely on people to use them to commit suicide). It’s designed to harm military personnel, which are often model examples of some of your strongest humans; which, of course, means it will harm anything weaker than a physically fit 100KG person wearing boots, gloves, flak jacket and a helmet. Mines, as a strategy, fall under the “area denial” category. That means blocking paths. Any path. Area denial means: NO HUMANS. Actually, it means kill anything that moves, including animals. A cargo bay full of these things will stop a column of pregnant women, the elderly, people in wheel chairs. The scope of fittest below fully armed soldier has a lot of bycatch. Sometimes, mines are not even dolphin-safe.