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Mine clearance services, security and UXO detection and clearance - MineTech International - MineTech's MT140 blows away mechanical performance barriers
Although designed to deal with anti personnel mines, the strength of the structure will give protection even over an exploding tank mine. The ...
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Specialized Services - Mine Mechanization and Automation at CANMET-MMSL
The site has personnel, mining equipment, and surface facilities comprising offices, laboratories ... are the water-powered rockdrill Candrill, fuel cell locomotive, anti-vibration rockdrill handle, multi-function drilling carrier, tele-operated ... mining web site summarizes the operating data from actual mines operating around the world. To see what other ...
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RONCO: Humanitarian Land Mine Clearance
Each animal is trained to detect explosive odor signatures like TNT or the scent of monofilament line or metallic wire whether used on booby traps, mines ... sometimes alter the original emplacement and complicate location and removal; yet, both anti-personnel and anti-tank mines have been found at levels below the surface where they have ...
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RONCO: RONCO in the News
Polish sapper was seriously wounded last week when he stepped on an old Soviet anti-personnel mine. Days earlier, a 12-year-old Afghan boy was killed when he strayed from ... , he said, there are about 700 different varieties of mines in the world, ranging from large metal anti-tank mines to the smaller, plastic anti-personnel mines that dominate in Bagram. The sappers work seven days ...
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From Mines to Vines
C L E S A N D R E V I E W S From Mines to Vines by Sharon Abercrombie EarthLight Magazine #40, Winter 2001 The transformation of killing fields ... , crafted by activists throughout the world, is asking nations to stop producing, selling, and using anti-personnel landmines. More than two-thirds of the world's countries have signed on, but the ...
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(9/22/97) Clinton Blasted on Landmines Decision
Demilitarization for Democracy research group, also denounced Clinton's latest moves. The directive to develop substitutes for anti-personnel mines appeared to exclude the self-destructing anti-personnel mines that are used to protect anti-tank mines ...
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"Woefully Inadequate" U.N. Actions to Ban Landmines
Estimates of 100 million landmines worldwide According to the ICRC 35 governments have backed an outright ban on anti-personnel mines, of which 16 have ... , Mason-Hanger and Day & Zimmerman. Anti-personnel mines are either blast or fragmentation mines, based on the types of injury that they inflict. Blast mines produce a single upward explosion that ...
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They are the German Shepherds who help sniff out the 56 different types of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines that infest Afghanistan after more than two decades of war. These four-legged heroes ... are at their best when indicating individual mines, rather than concentrations of mines. Dogs can work fast in areas with a low density of mines and are best for detecting the boundaries of ...
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The dog handlers and their dogs must demonstrate to UNMACA that they can safely and efficiently locate the hidden mines at ... exist in Afghanistan – since 1989. During that clearance, more than 300,000 anti-personnel mines, more than 17,000 anti-tank mines and more than eight million pieces of UXO since 1989. On behalf ...
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Mine clearance services, security and UXO detection and clearance - MineTech International - Glossary of Terms
APM Anti-personnel mine - a mine designed to injure or kill one or more persons. It will be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person. Anti-personnel mines ... and sub-munitions. A bomb containing and dispensing sub-munitions which may be mines (anti-personnel or anti-tank), penetration (runway cratering) bomblets, fragmentation bomblets, etc. Demining Humanitarian demining activities ...
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