Webillmaster - Where did you find these ? I'd like to link/show them to some buddies on a .mil base but fora are blocked there
500lb explosive vs. MRAP and thats what we get ? - okay, I as a taxpayer authorize my .gov to buy as many of these as they want. (I think it fared very well against a large explosive).
TW, From what I've seen - a minesweeping tank/vehicle has a big long bar with spinning chains on the front (I'm at work so I dont want to google up a video). Those spinning chains would beat up any person that got near them, and beat up the ground (which is what you want to clear any and all types of mines), and would wear out relatively quickly requiring replacement and slowing their rate of advance.
This is all conjecture on my part, but, perhaps we/someone has come up with a better solution (Its not like there isnt a lot of "anti-mine" human rights .orgs out there.) and I havent seen it. I agree that the great minds of this world must be able to find something, at least for humanitarian efforts.
When you add an urban environment (someone accidently leaves a bomb on the 2nd story of building, children/families playing/trying to make a living, paved roads, cell phone-detonated IED's, lack of 24hr surveillance so people can sneak back in and leave "presents"...) The water gets pretty muddy.
-John