mine clearing
Battlefield hazard elimination
Mine clearing is the process of detecting and removing explosive mines from an area—whether land mines buried in soil or naval mines floating in waterways.
Military and humanitarian organizations conduct mine clearing to make battlefields, former war zones, and shipping lanes safe for passage.
The work is dangerous and painstaking, often continuing decades after conflicts end.
- landmineBuried pressure-activated explosive
- deminingRemoving buried explosives
- explosiveProne to sudden detonation
- ordnanceMilitary weapons collectively
- sapperMilitary construction soldier
protective gear · detector · flail · sweep · battlefield · war zone · no man's land · ground zero · unexploded · bomb · bomb squad · disposal · defuse · booby trap · trip wire · trigger · shrapnel · hazard
- military operationsoffensive, attack, marines, Desert Storm, NATO operations
- postwarrebuilding, demobilization, peace treaties, treaty signing, war reparations
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- divingscuba, scuba diving, dive mask, dive helmet, diving bells
- cleanupdebris removal, litter removal, junk removal, waste disposal, litter pickup
- amphibious warfareamphibious assault, beach landing, amphibious warfare, landing craft, amphibious vehicle
mine clearingmine laying
Deploying submerged explosives
minelaying · mining operations · booby-trapping · mining · obstruction
mine, clearing, mines, mined, miner, miners, mining, minefield, minefields