The Pentagon returns to the system of remote mining "Volcano"
Archival photo: ground-based mining system "Vulkan" on the basis of the track conveyor Bv206.
The Pentagon proposes to upgrade the system and then put it into operation in 2018.
“The Vulcan system is a product of the Cold War, when military strategists thought about mass tank breakouts. The system was in service with American units until the late 1990s of the last century. The main task of this system is to quickly mine the terrain in tank-hazardous areas or in the areas of breakthrough of enemy troops in order to slow down their advance and give their anti-tank units time to deploy, ”explains the Izvestia newspaper.
Mining is done from helicopters or trucks - “in a matter of minutes, create a minefield of the desired configuration, it can be either purely anti-tank or mixed, in order to complicate the task of enemy sappers,” the article says.
In the 21-th century "Volcanoes" went to the warehouses. The only place where they continue to be on duty is the Korean Peninsula, where Pyongyang continues to threaten Seoul with a tank fist.
Now this system should be one of the key elements of the Cross Domain Fires strategy.
“The Vulkan mining system is rapidly becoming a critical component of the complex of the formation of the battlefield,” said the representative of the US Command, Thomas Campbell.
He said that “Volcanoes” will be used “not just to create obstacles for advancing enemy troops, but in order to send them to certain areas where they can strike aviation and artillery. " However, according to him, “Volcanoes” must first be modernized so that “they comply with the requirements of the Convention on the Ban of Anti-Personnel Mines (Ottawa Treaty) and are compatible with those types of vehicles that are currently used by American combat engineers”.
As the editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland, Viktor Murakhovsky, noted, “the effectiveness of the minefields established with the help of Volcanoes will greatly depend on what the group has broken through: then such a statement of mines is not a problem - the passages in such a field are made almost without delay, because this is the installation of mines into a bubble, that is, onto the surface of the earth. ”
Land mining system "Volcano" on the basis of the track conveyor Bv206.
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