Patent ID: 6892622

Claim:
An anti-mine unit for digging up, exposing and exploding mines in a minefield, comprising: a front beam, a rear beam, and two opposing side beams defining a rectangular frame; mounting means normal to the rear beam for mounting the rectangular frame to a prime mover so that the frame extends horizontally in front of the prime mover; a plurality of digging cables suspended from the front beam adapted for digging into a surface of the minefield, each cable being independently suspended; a plurality of drag cables suspended from the front beam adapted for dragging over the surface of the minefield, each dragging cable being independently suspended; a plurality of curtain cables suspended from the rear beam and the two opposing side beams; a first pair of deflector cables and a second pair of deflector cables mounted to opposite ends of the rear beam, respectively, the deflector cables being adapted for deflecting unexploded mines from a path of the prime mover.