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A mine plow is typically mounted to a tank or military engineering vehicle. Buried land mines are plowed up and pushed outside the tank's track path or tipped over. Since modern anti-tank mines rely on a focused explosion to destroy armored vehicles, they are useless when turned upside-down; as the tank runs over the mine, it will expend its ...
The M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is a U.S. military mine- and explosives-clearing vehicle, based on the M1 Abrams chassis, equipped with a mine plow and line charges. Its first large scale use by the US Marines (USMC) was in the joint ISAF -Afghan Operation Moshtarak in Southern Afghanistan during the War in Afghanistan in 2010 against ...
D7 surface mine plow (SMP): A track-width plow designed to skim the surface of a flat roadway or trail, not to defeat buried mines. It is controlled by the driver. It is controlled by the driver. Track-width mine plow (TWMP) : Uses a raking action to clear a safe path by bringing concealed or buried mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs ...
The plow device with reversed discharges makes it possible to bury and mask mines. Demonstration of mine deployment from the rear of the vehicle The GMZ-3 provides for the advance installation of minefields in danger zones for tanks, as well as defending against attacks from tanks and mechanized units.
The engineer vehicle is based on the infantry carrier. Its most distinctive feature is a mine-clearance blade, it is most often towing a wheeled trailer loaded with additional equipment. The vehicle is capable of clearing mines on paved surfaces and some rubble clearance.
KMT-5M attached to T-54/55 KMT-5M attachments to T-54/55. The KMT-5M is a Soviet tank mounted mechanical mine clearing device in the KMT series that is designed to disable anti-tank mines by plowing up or mechanically breaking them from the lines in front of tank tracks.
A PennDOT plow truck heads west while clearing snow on Route 5 in Girard Township on Jan. 16, 2025. Chicago snowplow names unveiled The city of Chicago on Wednesday announced the winners of its ...
U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank with mine plow An amphibious assault vehicle fires a line charge to clear beachhead during an exercise at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base. In World War II, one method used by the German SS to clear minefields was to force captured civilians to cross the minefields, which would trigger any mine they encountered. [137]