Searching for explosive hazards with handheld mine detectors can be both physically and mentally taxing. Explosive hazards can be buried underground, laid on the ground or placed flush with the ground ...

A landmine-detection system under development at the Georgia Institute of Technology offers potential advantages over existing technologies and could ultimately help prevent the thousands of injuries ...

Researchers pick up good vibrations to locate buried mines. Exciting a land mine may not sound like a good idea, but developers of the Seismic Landmine Detection System are doing just that. A group of ...

According to [Joanna Goodrich] in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As you might expect, this ...

Today�s mine detectors survive some tough treatment long before they ever reach the battlefields. In an age of global terrorists, military readiness means the capability to deploy equipment needed ...

WM Robots LLC has been awarded a $48.6 million contract to supply up to 1,300 handheld mine detectors over the next three years to the Navy for use in Afghanistan ...

Minehound VMR3G, handheld dual senson mine and IED detector at Cobham booth at AUSA on Oct. 12, 2015. Cobham has been awarded a $4.17 million Army contract to develop handheld mine detectors. Under ...

Several thousand people -- many of them children -- are killed each year by the estimated 110 million land mines that lie hidden in 68 countries throughout the world. Humanitarian mine-clearing ...

DAPA announced on 18 October that it awarded Hanwha Systems a contract to series-produce the PRS-20K: a new mine detection system that is also capable of finding non-metallic mines. The system will be ...

Units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have received mine clearance equipment from Japan, including special vehicles and mine detectors. Source: Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs of ...