Transforming Excavators into Efficient Demining Machines: Ukrainian Civil-Military Cooperation

2023-08-16 06:57:00

Ukrainian civil-military cooperation has transformed a standard excavator into an efficient demining machine. (video capture)

[Compiled by Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report]The road of the Russian army’s counterattack was full of landmines. According to foreign media reports, nearly a year and a half following the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, Ukraine has become the country with the most landmines in the world. In addition to foreign-aided demining equipment, Ukrainian military-civilian cooperation is now solving the deadly problem of landmines, and is testing the effect of transforming a standard excavator into an efficient demining machine.

“Archyde.com” reported on the 15th that modern demining vehicles are rare in Ukraine. This kind of demining vehicle was inspired by the US military’s “M4 Sherman tanks” (M4 Sherman tanks) equipped with flails during World War II.

Vitalii, a 50-year-old engineer, said in an interview: “The (demining vehicle) device clears mines through these chains… When it rotates, its impact is like a 1,000-kilogram impact. Any mine, whether it’s an anti-armor mine or a (personnel) anti-personnel mine, will be detonated. Or we can put some knives on it that can plow the land.”

Nonetheless, Ukrainian developers believe that the excavator converted into a demining vehicle can remove any mines from the road. Volodymyr Ozoryan, a military demining expert, said: “We tested this (demining vehicle) device on anti-personnel mines, which produce a lot of power and shrapnel. You can see it on the (demining vehicle) protection panel. trace.”

Although the driver can control the demining vehicle remotely, the developers still want to ensure that the cab can still be safe in the event of an explosion under the excavator’s tracks. If one day the excavator is no longer required to perform demining tasks, then it can be returned to the purpose for which it was originally designed.

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