A New Approach Towards Mine Clearing?

The Mine Kafon is a low-cost wind-powered mine detonator with the appearance of a giant, spiky-armed tumbleweed. Mine Kafon: The Low-Tech, H...

U.S. Navy Scrambles To Confront Iranian Mine Threat Against Shipping

Iran Mine Threat Scares Navy; CNO Scrambles To Fix Decades Of Neglect -- Aol Defense WASHINGTON: Iran's threat to strangle oil tanker tr...

Here Comes The Robot Subs

The Navy will send a robotic sub -- shown here as a model -- to hunt buried mines. Photo: Spencer Ackerman/Wired Navy Will Give Nearsighted ...

Afghanistan's IED Experts

A soldier tackling an IED in Afghanistan. Photograph: Stuart Webb In The Line Of Fire: Afghanistan's IED Experts -- The Telegraph The Ar...

Drunk Driving Soldier Who Committed Numerous Crimes Gets A Free "Get Out Of Jail Card" Because He Clears Mines In Afghanistan

Trooper Henry Wallace (not the man pictured above) had downed a staggering 11 pints of lager and six shots in just two hours before getting ...

The British Hurt Locker Team And The Astonishing Bravery Of One Man

Iain Martin hard at work on the found on the Bandi Barq Road in Gereshk The British Hurt Locker Team And The Astonishing Bravery Of One Man ...

Video: Half-Kilometer-Long Explosive Whip Clears IEDs The Explode-y Way

From Popular Science: Clearing battlefield obstacles has pitted trapper against sapper since Roman times. But whereas the minefields and dra...

How to Clear A Town Filled With Booby Traps

A Stryker sits in the foreground as a plume of dark smoke from a 500-pound bomb blast rises into the air during a clearing operation in Bya...