Rocket-powered mine clearing explosive - GIF

[Jon]

Rocket-powered mine clearing explosive.




Previously:

International Harvester automatic towed mine planter
Armored excavator hits land mine - video
WWII Churchill tank converted into mine clearer
Woodburner from naval mine - photo

[Moby Duck]

I don’t understand this at all. Somebody had to lay that track through a potential minefield, right up to the mine. Why didn’t they just counter mine it?

[jdurand]

Somebody made a lot of money off that, that's why they did it.

[desbromilow]

I don’t understand this at all. Somebody had to lay that track through a potential minefield, right up to the mine. Why didn’t they just counter mine it?

the way it jumps abit, I'd guess they laid the track long enough to point it in the right direction, then the rocket keeps going in that direction off the track, and into the minefeild. With the track in place, they can send one rocket after another along the same path until they know there is a clear straight line through the area - or advance the track to the previously exploded mine crater, then keep sending along the same straight line.