The machine's inventor, an engineer identified only as Vitalii, told Reuters that the heavy spinning chains slam into the ground — or an unexploded mine — with the force of more than 2,000 pounds.

The TM-62 anti-tank mine has been a signature weapons in this conflict. Now Ukrainian drone bombers are dropping the mines on Russian bunkers. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

During World War II, the British called their minesweeping tank a Crab: it was a U.S-made M4 Sherman tank equipped with flails – long chains attached to a revolving drum that beat the ground to ...

A Ukrainian engineer is testing out a homespun approach to mine-clearance, kitting out a farm excavator with rotating chains to root out unexploded ordnance, Reuters reported. The machine's ...

There are two main types of mine clearing machines of the hundred or so that have been supplied to Ukraine. They usually either ploughs or flails (spinning chains).