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What tools do Russian sappers have at their disposal? With Russia’s military continuing its probing offensive in the Kupyansk area in Kharkov region, sapper units are playing an invaluable role in assuring the success of operations and the safety of their fellow troops. Russia has an array of demining equipment in its arsenal, including: ▪️UR-77 and UR-83P rocket-projected line charge-based landmine clearing systems, exploding between 665 and 1,500 tons of TNT or plastic explosives to clear out enemy pressure-activated mines. Able to clear strips of land between 83 and 115 meters long and 6-14 meters wide of mines using powerful blasts. ▪️IMR-3M armored obstacle-clearing vehicles, which can be fitted with attachments including a mine trawl with electromagnetic sensors for use against anti-track and anti-bottom mines with contact and magnetic fuses. The 50 ton, two-man crewed vehicle rides on a T-90 tank chassis. ▪️Uran-6 robots – one of a handful of Russian ground-based robotic sapper systems created by engineers to detect, destroy and deactivate mines without risking troops’ lives. The Uran-6 has been deployed and tested extensively in the special operation zone, and has high effectiveness rating. Since its deployment in 2022, the 6 ton remote-control vehicle has been modernized to include enhanced armor protection and an improved communication system. ▪️Strekoza drones, a 12 kg aerial drone designed to detect enemy mines equipped with radioelectronic fuses distances up to 30 meters away, and destroy them with air-droppable TNT. Equipment aside, Russian sappers’ most valuable asset is their training and skills. Sappers need every ounce of quick-wittedness they can muster on the Ukrainian battleground to detect and defuse everything from tiny Lepestok antipersonnel mines raining down on Donbass cities to booby-traps and large, deadly converted thermobaric grenade-based mines, plus an array NATO explosives. Subscribe to [club80289214|@SputnikInt] Источник: Sputnik International
