US Army's Minotaur unmanned vehicle clears paths through Afghan minefields
4,132 views · Published 24 December 2012 · 0:58 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: News Direct · 2012 · Science & Technology
The US Army uses the Minotaur unmanned vehicle to detect and detonate improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the single biggest killers of US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Minotaur mine-roller robot is a robotized T110 Bobcat diesel-powered loader equipped with mine-detonating roller, surveillance cameras and radios. A soldier drives it from a safe, stand-off distance using a remote control pad. The Minotaur is especially useful against pressure-plate mines that tanks and armored vehicles drive over without detonating but which are triggered by dismounted soldiers, who carry so much equipment that they actually generate more pressure than a tank.
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