The U.S. Army Is Building a Smarter Land Mine
The U.S. Army is working on a new generation of land mines and mine-like battlefield munitions. The weapons, all of which are designed to be left unattended on the battlefield, have to fulfill the sometimes competing interests of being useful against high-tech enemies while at the same time not becoming a long-term hazard to civilians. The U.S. Army utilizes a wide variety of battlefield munitions. As , the service’s inventory runs from the Vietnam War-era Claymore mine to the new Gator anti-tank/anti-personnel mines. The service wants to ...
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