| They were standard gun-tanks fitted with rotating drums driven off their engines, from which weighted chains flailed paths through minefields. |
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| Trapped against the British minefields, his Afrika Korps came within an ace of running out of ammunition and fuel, but his legendary luck held. |
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| The defence agencies could use the remote-controlled vehicle to traverse minefields. |
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| Other tasks included identifying and isolating minefields and unexploded ordnance that ringed the base. |
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| Consider a complex obstacle consisting of wire, minefields, and antitank ditches. |
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| A Predator senses guard dogs and detects minefields in a swamp, or releases sample Hellfire munitions that neutralize their targets. |
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| In the months and years to follow, it would harden into a massive barrier of concrete blocks, barbed wire, machine gun towers, and minefields. |
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| Protection of areas and positions held by the troops is carried out via installation of controlled minefields only. |
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| But when they attacked in March 1915, Allied naval forces had been turned back by enemy minefields, and had called in land forces to help. |
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| The core elements of such groups can be tanks as well as minefields and explosive obstacles. |
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| All these rabbits lived in this space, because they could jump around the minefields without making the mines explode. |
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| Breaching minefields and other explosive obstacles that were widely used during the war posed a special difficulty. |
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| A key role in this warfare is assigned to remote minelaying and remotely controlled minefields. |
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| The untargeted drops could also result in much of the food ending up in the middle of the country's numerous unmapped minefields. |
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| New symbols to show minefields, or areas targeted for artillery fire, will also be available. |
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| At the end of each shift in the minefields, the deminers detonate the mines they've found in situ. |
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| The chateau on the northern outskirts is a strongpoint of bunkers connected by tunnels, surrounded by dense minefields and barbed wire. |
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| It is a field where most of the books are minefields, road maps to oblivion, mind stultifiers, or very limited in their scope. |
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| They can also dig fighting positions or keep enemies at bay by planting their own minefields. |
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| While the deal was imperfect, it beat lurking alternatives like another generation split by minefields or another cyclic war of revenge. |
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| They may be laid forward of larger minefields, on road verges, or in defiles where men and vehicles will pass. |
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| He made a specialty of chemical and gas warfare and minefields and his war caused a million deaths. |
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| Tactical minefields are smaller and are laid around a battalion or company position to block approaches and canalise vehicles into smaller killing grounds. |
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| At the initial stage of the operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the principal mass of minefields was found in disposition areas of Russian units. |
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| They dug trenches, emplaced minefields and strung concertina wire. |
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| The objective was to silence the forts so that minesweepers could clear the minefields to allow the fleet to force the Dardanelles and lay siege to Constantinople. |
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| Although hundreds of acres of land in the Falklands are off-limits because of mines, the minefields are well marked and therefore cause few problems. |
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| If nothing else, I knew that I would enjoy the spectacle of it uncomfortably squirming through the minefields of its own institutional political correctitude. |
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| I'd grown tired of tear gas and heavily armed teenagers, of having my sources arrested or, in one case, killed, of walking into minefields and tangling with mobs. |
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| Harry, 28, has a longstanding connection with the charity and in 2010 visited minefields in Mozambique, where he met amputees. |
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| These blocked approaches were backed by minefields, artillery, and concrete barriers. |
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| This was cited as a retaliation for British minefields and shipping blockades. |
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| Instead, they designed defensive minefields to prevent enemy ships approaching and freed up the destroyers for duties escorting larger ships. |
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| Parts of some World War II naval minefields still exist because they are too extensive and expensive to clear. |
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| They are often spread thinly, to create an impression of minefields existing across large areas. |
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| Aircraft had the advantage of speed, and they would never get caught in their own minefields. |
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| In September 1939, the UK announced the placement of extensive defensive minefields in waters surrounding the Home Islands. |
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| Advancing military forces worked to clear mines from newly taken areas, but extensive minefields remained in place after the war. |
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| The route was safest from surface attacks, but the nearby minefields and sand banks meant it could not be used at night. |
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| Care was taken to choose the best route, to avoid British minefields and to steam at high speed. |
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| With Operation Lightfoot, Montgomery intended to cut two corridors through the Axis minefields in the north. |
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| It was a difficult task that was not achieved because of the depth of the Axis minefields. |
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| The minefields were deeper than anticipated and clearing paths through them was impeded by Axis defensive fire. |
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| There was little activity during the day pending more complete clearance of paths through the minefields. |
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| The paths through the minefields were very congested and broken up, which delayed matters further. |
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| German prisoners were for example forced to clear minefields in France and the Low Countries. |
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| We are also marking minefields, removing mines and educating people about the threat. |
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| Using the two paths cleared through the southern minefields, IDF tanks entered the Rafah salient. |
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| Then came the Wall, and almost everything that was left was razed to allow the guards a clear field of fire over the desolate minefields. |
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| In response to the threat of an Argentine invasion, minefields were deployed and bunkers built on the Chilean side in some areas of Tierra del Fuego. |
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| On the ground itself, minefields have been used as hidden defences in modern warfare, often remaining long after the wars that have produced them have ended. |
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| Engineers would clear and mark the two lanes through the minefields, through which the armoured divisions from X Corps would pass to gain the Pierson Line. |
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| The barrier consisted of minefields laid between Belgium and Dover at the outbreak of war, followed in February 1915 by steel netting anchored to the sea bed. |
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| This is especially true for minesweepers and mine hunters that work in minefields, where a minimal signature outweighs the need for armour and speed. |
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| Defensive minefields safeguard key stretches of coast from enemy ships and submarines, forcing them into more easily defended areas, or keeping them away from sensitive ones. |
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