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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.
Božena 4 UGV with mine flail in Polish service. It is known that flails do not reliably detonate all the mines in the area being swept, leaving it potentially hazardous. Some mines, such as the Italian MAT/6 mine, are designed to be flail resistant. Mines that have been buried for many years may become unreliable and fail to detonate when ...
Mine exploder T1E5 roller: T1E3/M1 w/ smaller wheels. Experimental. Mine exploder T1E6 roller: T1E3/M1 w/ serrated edged discs. Experimental; 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 ...
A USMC M67 Flamethrower Tank in action near Da Nang, Vietnam. The Ensure 202 expendable tank-mounted mine roller was tried in Vietnam on the M48 tank. M48 AVLB: armored vehicle-launched bridge Former M48A3 with 60-foot (18 meters) scissors bridge mated to the M48A1/M48A2 hull. Most were upgraded with the M60 Hull PIP Update Kit.
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum. A minecart , mine cart , or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch ) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway , used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining .
The first design steps for the MineWolf mine clearance machine were made in 1998 based on a concept by Heinz Rath of integrating a commercial platform with tiller and mine flail tool. The first prototype was constructed by consortium under the leadership of RUAG in the production facilities of AHWI.
A preserved, World War II, Sherman Crab – an M4 Sherman tank fitted with a flail. During World War II the Sherman Crab was the primary (and most effective) mine clearance vehicle for the 79th Armoured Division, but AVREs carried a range of mine clearance devices to supplement them.
Crab: A modified Sherman tank equipped with a mine flail, a rotating cylinder of weighted chains that exploded mines in the path of the tank. DD tank (from "Duplex Drive"): An amphibious version of the Sherman created by fitting M4A1 and M4A4 with a large watertight canvas housing. This increased displacement so the tank was able to float and ...