Ryan Hendrickson has been working to clear heavily mined areas in Ukraine. The former US Special Forces engineer says the overwhelming numbers of land mines is wildly different from anything he ...

Combat engineers defused mines, built bridges, cleared roads and sometimes even fought as infantry. (Wikimedia Commons) Somehow Brooks, who saw only three months of combat, survived.

Land mines have proved a formidable obstacle for Ukraine’s military, ... said Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and a combat engineer.

Military deminers and combat engineers must clear mines quickly, often under fire, so troops can advance. It is not about removing every single explosive, but instead creating a safe path to ...

He served as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division as a combat engineer. One of his tasks during the war was to defuse land mines, and he also fought in the ...

The late Leo Treadway was a member of the Naval Construction Battalion of World War II, nicknamed Sea Bees. He told stories of a tank-like vehicle called a Dragon that destroyed land mines in the path ...

Combat engineers no longer have the manpower and equipment to facilitate the unimpeded maneuver of Marine infantry through explosive and nonexplosive obstacles and across gaps.

Even if the war in Ukraine were to end immediately, the scourge of land mines would remain. There is no single map of where they've been buried alongside roads, in fields and forests.

As well as around 90 trucks, one of the latest requirements is for three armoured combat engineer vehicles that would provide the ability to clear mines and obstacles. This effort, with a budget of ...

While land mines aren’t as common for most people as FM radios, ... 8 thoughts on “ The Engineer Behind Mine Detection ” BobH says: January 10, 2025 at 8:48 pm ...

Land mines slowed Ukraine’s attempts last summer to ... Some of that work is being done at the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities ... Engineers there have developed their own version of the ...

Speaking to Russian journalists in Pyongyang after his meeting with Kim the day before, Shoigu said that North Korea had agreed to send 1,000 combat engineers to remove land mines from Russian ...