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A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a minefield by deliberately detonating land mines in ... based on a M48 Patton main battle ...
Keiler mine flail (German: Minenräumpanzer Keiler, 'tusker') is a mine-clearing vehicle developed by Rheinmetall in Germany to meet the requirements of the German Army.It is a conversion of the M48 Patton medium tank chassis in combination with a German MTU MB 871 Ka 501 liquid-cooled turbocharged Diesel engine.
Mine exploder T1E6 roller – T1E3/M1 w/ serrated edged roller discs. Experimental. Mine exploder T2 flail – American designation for British Sherman Crab I mine flail. Mine exploder T3 flail – Based on British Scorpion flail. Development stopped in 1943. Mine exploder T3E1 flail – T3 w/ longer arms and sand filled rotor. Cancelled.
Sherman Morag – Israeli designation of Sherman Crab mine flail vehicle. Trail Blazer (Gordon) – A recovery/engineering vehicle based on HVSS equipped M4A1s, it featured a large single boom crane (as opposed to the A-Frame of the M32) and large spades at the front and rear of the vehicle to assist in lifting. It could also tow up to 72 tons.
Controversy surrounds the true reasons behind the mission, which most likely was to liberate Patton's son-in-law, John K. Waters, taken captive in Tunisia in 1943. The result of the mission was a complete failure; of the roughly 300 men of the task force, 32 were killed in action during the raid and only 35 made it back to Allied -controlled ...
Based on Patton family of tanks. M88 & M88A1 variants in service. [69] Isoli M60 Italy: 500 Light recovery crane mounted on truck. [70] Dragon Pakistan — Tank-mounted engineering mine plough vehicle. [71] Troll Anti-Mine Pakistan: 53 De-mining vehicle. Based on T-55 tank. [72] [68] [73] Cougar JERRV United States: 20 Mine-clearing vehicle.
George Smith Patton Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
The 17th Armored Engineer Battalion was a part of the 2nd Armored Division "Hell on Wheels". During World War II, they were active in North African Campaign, and Western Europe Campaign. 17th Armored Engineer Battalion was founded on 1 October 1933 as part of the US Army.