Land Mine Clearing Machine

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Land mine clearing machine.

We work in partnership with the communities we serve. Such a device is typically detonated automatically by way of pressure when a target steps on it or drives over it although other detonation mechanisms are also sometimes used. Mine clearing machines use one of three techniques including flailing chains to beat the ground rollers to roll over and detonate mines and rakes or blades to plow through the minefields pushing the mines to the side. Keiler mine flail minenräumpanzer keiler.

Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing land mines from an area. By contrast the goal of humanitarian demining is to remove all of the landmines to a given depth and make the land safe for human use. Developed under the watch of anti landmine group the halo trust this mine munching tank of a machine weighs 30 tons and is capable of chewing through landmine infested soil at an unimaginable rate. German engineers clear a minefield utilizing a german keiler flail tank during exercise in san gregorio spain.

Clearing landmines is a painstaking process. Humanitarian mine action demining to release land containing landmines and minefields safely is guided by imas 08 20. We use a combination of methods and tools to detect and destroy landmines cluster bombs and other unexploded weapons including manual deminers machinery and mine detection dogs. This is careful and painstaking work.

Design is that it has the same standard quick fit industry fittings which allows it be attached to different commercial machines where appropriate and both the armtrac 400 and 75t 230. View our mine clearing roller system mine clearance equipment. A smaller version of the strimmer can be attached to the rear backhoe excavator of the. Most of our clearance work is done by hand but sometimes the terrain and nature of the debris makes clearing with machines more practical.

In military operations the object is to rapidly clear a path through a minefield and this is often done with devices such as mine plows and blast waves. The approach used varies depending on a number of factors including terrain vegetation and the level and type of contamination. There are several types of mine clearing machines.