“The Defence Acquisition Council [DAC] approved prototype testing of trawl assemblies designed by Defence Research and Development Organisation [DRDO] for T-72A and T-90S tanks, providing an important indigenous mine clearance capability to the [Indian] Army,” said the PIB in a statement. The media outlet released neither details nor development terms of the new tank-mounted counter-mine system. However, as demonstrated at DefExpo India 2018, some Indian tanks are already equipped with a mine-clearing device, including the indigenous Arjun Mk.II MBT not yet deployed.
The flail solution is rather outdated for tanks: “Hobart’s Funnies”
were a number of unusually modified tanks operated during the Second
World War by the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by
specialists from the Royal Engineers. They were designed in light of
problems that more standard tanks experienced during the amphibious
Dieppe Raid that dramatically failed on 19 August 1942, so that the new
models would be able to overcome the problems of the planned Invasion of
Normandy that actually took place on 6 June 1944. These tanks played a
major part on the Commonwealth beaches during the landings. They were
forerunners of the modern combat engineering vehicle and were named
after their commander, Major General Percy Hobart. The U.S. Army copied
some of these inventions.
According to the catalogue of Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporting
company (a subsidiary of state corporation Rostec), the T-90S MBT
features “an attaching lug for a mine plow”.
Source: Dharmakshethra
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