Our new demining machine, originally from deminers’ expectations, fields experiences with the DIGGER D-2 and tests conducted by different recognized institutions, is characterized by a more powerful engine (173 hp) and its compatibility with different specific tools (flail, tiller ...) or standard Caterpillar® (shovel, fork ...) easily interchangeable, even in operations.
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More than seventy countries suffer under the plague of anti-personnel mines. To restore decent living conditions millions of mines must first be dismantled. Despite the Ottawa Convention of 1997, which banned the manufacture and use of anti-personnel mines, it will take centuries to eradicate the curse...
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Humanitarian demining methods have seen minimal development in recent decades. The basic work still depends on manual work by men and women whose tools consist of a stick and scythe. Since many fragmentation mines are scattered in undergrowth, with a trip wire to detonate them, deminers must begin by first clearing the vegetation, twig by twig.
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