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The mine flail consists of a number of heavy chains ending in fist-sized steel balls (flails) that are attached to a horizontal, rapidly rotating rotor mounted on two arms in front of the vehicle. The rotor's rotation makes the flails spin wildly and violently pound the ground.
Keiler is built on the M48 Patton medium tank hull. Developers removed the turret of the Patton and fitted the vehicle with a heavy-duty rotor-powered mine flail, a rapidly rotating cylinder mounted between two arms in front of the vehicle consisting of two shafts with 24 chains terminating in large metal "feet". [3]
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. Mine exploder T3E2 flail – E1 variant, rotor replaced with steel drum of larger ...
The Aardvark AMCS Mk4 is a British-made mine flail vehicle built by Aardvark Clear Mine Ltd of Dumfries, Scotland.. The AMCS flail system was developed in Aberdeenshire by David Macwatt of Elgin, Scotland and George Sellar & Son of Huntly (system designers were James (Barney) Hepburn, Pat McRobbie and Alistair Birnie) with the cooperation of Ford Motor Co, Basildon.
Mine exploder T2 flail: British 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. Mine exploder T3E2 flail: E1 variant, rotor replaced with steel drum of larger diameter. Development terminated at war's end.
Type 97 Chi-Yu mine flail tank. Type 97 Chi-Yu mine flail tank; Type 97 Chi-Ha fitted with 2 revolving drums with rows of chains mounted on glacis plates and linked to the drive wheels for clearing a mine-field. [26] The prototype copied the design of the British mine flail tanks. Type 97 mine clearing tank GS fitted with rocket launchers
The much more successful KMT-26 mine roller (weight 1.55 t, mine-sweeping speed 6–8 km/h, able to absorb up to 3 anti-tank mine explosions) was developed and tested in July 1934; three such mine-exploding rollers were produced. An experimental mine flail was tested in August–September 1939 also. Mine sweeps could be mounted on T-26 or ST-26 ...
Bionix Counter-Mine Vehicle (Trailblazer) - The SAF has inducted a 30-ton class Counter-Mine Vehicle (CMV) built on the Bionix chassis called the Trailblazer, which uses a mine flail system. In addition to mine-clearing, the Trailblazer is able to mark its trails using a lane marking system with pneumatically fired rods, enabling vehicles to ...