A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a minefield by deliberately detonating land mines in front of the vehicle that...
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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...
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Experimental. Mine exploder T2 flail – American designation for British Sherman Crab I mine flail. Mine exploder T3 flail – Based on British Scorpion flail. Development...
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Hobart's Funnies (redirect from Crab flail tank)
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...
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clear mines, either detonating them on contact, or pushing them out of the way to clear a safe channel for following vehicles. Mine roller Mine flail Chamberlain...
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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...
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the drive wheels for clearing a mine-field. The prototype copied the design of the British mine flail tanks. Type 97 Mine clearing tank GS Type 97 Chi-Ha...
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battles Flail, the cutting part in some designs of brush hog, stump grinder, and woodchipper Mine flail, a vehicle mounted device for removing land mines This...
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Experimental Matilda chassis with mine flail – never used operationally. Matilda Scorpion I / II Matilda chassis with a mine flail. Used in North Africa, during...
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Aardvark JSFU (category Mine warfare countermeasures)
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...
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Cucumis humifructus, a kind of African cucumber Aardvark JSFU, a military mine-flail vehicle Aardvark-Vanaheim, a Canadian independent comic book publisher...
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original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Aardvark Joint Services Flail Unit (JSFU) Mark III. 21 December 2000. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)...
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Conger were developed for clearing mines, but were not very effective[citation needed]. One of the best options was the flail, which had weights attached by...
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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...
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Demining (redirect from Mine detector)
an area is cleared. Mechanical devices such as flails and excavators are sometimes used to clear mines. A great variety of methods for detecting landmines...
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Ha-Go light tank and a Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank, a US Sherman Crab mine-flail tank, a British Centurion Mk. II main battle tank (MBT), a Nazi German...
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal DOK-ING MV-4 Croatia Remote mine flail 2 Tracked remote control mini flail MAN HX60 Germany Armoured EOD trucks 3 or more Initially...
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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...
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variant. BTS-2 Soviet Union Armoured recovery vehicle 5 Bozena Slovakia Mine flail Engesa EE-12 Brazil Light utility vehicle Land Rover United Kingdom Light...
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British used mine rollers to detect the presence of minefields and then used mine flails for the clearance. During World War II, the mine roller most used...
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mine. It uses a pneumatic fuze which is resistant to shock and blast, and is also claimed to be resistant to mine flails and mine rollers. The mine's...
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do their work with 681 metal detectors, 55 mine rollers and mine flails, and 15 mine-detection dogs. Mine-clearing machines include locally designed models...
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as the tanks got stuck in the mud or were taken out by mines. A lone mine flail tank finally cleared a path from the beach up toward the Mont Fleury Battery...
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after a popular cigarette lighter. M48 Minenräumpanzer Keiler: German mine flail variant based on the M48A2 hull with upgraded 986 hp German MTU 871 Ka501...
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III 75 mm (3.0 in) gun removed to allow for fitment with Scorpion III mine flail - as used on other British tanks - by REME workshops, few made in January...
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Churchill tanks. Examples include the Sherman Crab tank (equipped with a mine flail), the Churchill Crocodile (a flame-throwing tank), and the Armoured Ramp...
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dedicated bridging and mine clearance, becoming the Armoured Ramp Carrier (ARK), Armoured vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB) and Mine flail (Lobster, Crab) vehicles...
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the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Aardvark Midi Mine flail DOK-ING MV-4 Remotely Operated Mine flail Cyclops Mk4 Remotely Operated Vehicle Remote Firing...
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lost on the way in and by the time the remainder landed, Sherman Crab (mine flail) tanks had already destroyed the German artillery and machine-gun positions...
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Uran-14 are entering service in the Russian Army as of 2021. Uran-6 is a mine flail; Uran-14 is an unmanned firefighting vehicle. Uran-9s are semi-autonomous...
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