The vehicle disables
and blocks electronic components of detonators or blows them up.
MOSCOW, June 9.
/TASS/. Servicemen of a Novosibirsk-based missile formation of Russia’s
Strategic Missile Force have used the Listva remote-controlled robotic
mine-clearing vehicle for the first time in tactical drills, the Defense
Ministry of Russia reported on Saturday.
"The Novosibirsk
missile formation used the newest Listva remote-controlled mine-clearing
vehicle to escort Yars road-mobile missile complexes along the routes of combat
patrolling," the Defense Ministry said, adding that the most advanced
mine-clearing vehicle had been used only in military exercises before that.
According to the
tactical drills’ scenario, notional subversion groups planted ten
remote-controlled explosives along the route of the column’s movement. The
roadside bombs were intended to be detonated but were detected by the vehicle’s
emitters. The explosives were blown up before the column of Yars missile
complexes started its movement and all the planted bombs were destroyed. The
Yars complexes stayed at a large distance from the explosions.
The robotic
mine-clearing vehicle destroyed the explosives both on the roadside and at a
distance of 50 meters from the road.
As Russia’s Defense
Ministry also reported, more than 300 pieces of engineering hardware are
scheduled for delivery to the engineering units of Russia’s Strategic Missile
Force by 2020. These include obstacle-clearing vehicles, heavy mechanized
bridges, excavators, automobile cranes and other engineering equipment. Wheeled
road vehicles designed specially for Russia’s Strategic Missile Force this year
will account for over 50% of all engineering hardware.
The Listva
remote-controlled mine-clearing vehicle developed specially for the Strategic
Missile Force is designed to detect mines and explosives with metal elements
and destroy engineer explosive items and improvised explosive devices with
electronic components. Explosive devices are detected with the use of an
induction wide-span search module.
The Listva clears
mines and explosives using electromagnetic radiation. The vehicle disables and
blocks electronic components of detonators or blows them up. Earlier, this
technology was not used for eliminating explosives at a distance. The Listva’s
electronics can detect mines and roadside bombs at a distance of up to 100
meters.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-06-2018
