Deminers of the International Mine Action Centre of the Russian Army continue their operations in the Kiev district of Donetsk to clear the PFM-1 anti-personnel mine laid by the Ukrainian army. Among them, the Russian army sent a tried and tested Uran (Uran)-6 minesweeper robot, which can be called a cattle knife for killing chickens.
As early as March, Ukraine has dropped a large number of various mines into Donetsk, a large number of PFM-1 mines have been laid in the urban areas of Lisichansk and Yasinowataya, and Ukraine has also used rockets to lay a large number of PFM-1 anti-personnel mines into the urban area of Donetsk on the night of July 30. And just a few days the Ukrainian army shelled the city of Donetsk again in half an hour, dropping PFM-1 anti-personnel mines. Such mines pose a great threat to the physical safety of a large number of civilians in the urban area of Doneesk. According to the videos taken by the Doneesk people, the streets, yards, and green areas are full of vicious mines of earth yellow or green, resembling butterflies, and many people have been injured.
The danger of the PFM-1 anti-personnel mine stems from its design. The mine is like a butterfly with thick wings on one side and a round tube in the middle, with a polyethylene shell, which can be either manually deployed or loaded with 72 rounds of KSF-1 dispensers by airdrop or artillery, and can also be fired with hurricane rockets With 12 groups of 9M27K3 rockets with 312 mine applicators in the air. The mine is 119 mm long, 64 mm wide, 20 mm thick and weighs 80 g. Its structure is that the side of the thick wing is equipped with 37 grams of VS6-D or VS-60D liquid explosives, the middle round tube is MVDM/VGM-572 fuze, the safety pin is lifted when it is released, the plunger is slowly pushed forward by the spring until it touches the detonator (time 1 to 40 minutes), after the person steps on the mine, as long as the force exceeds 5-25 kg, the soft plastic epidermis deformation of the mine will squeeze the liquid explosive container to allow the liquid explosive to enter the MVDM through the opening at the bottom of the piston to be launched/ The VGM-572 fuze pushes the plunger until the two steel balls that hold the firing pin are squeezed apart, and the firing pin hits the fire cap to detonate the mine. The original PFM-1 did not have a self-destruct device, while the PFM-1S self-destructed in 1 to 40 hours. Partial this goods are almost all plastic, and with camouflage color, thrown into the grass can not be seen, there is no way to demining can only be destroyed, personnel demining is very dangerous, although with its explosive charge can only blow off people's feet, mainly in order to increase the enemy's injury loss of combat effectiveness, increase the enemy's medical pressure, but if the child picks up and plays it is easy to be fatal. There was even a doneesk old woman who took a stuffed bag, and that was dangerous!
In order to clear mines, the Doneesk militia also thought of a lot of ways, such as using tires to smash at a distance, resulting in the smashed waist of the brothers being hit by shrapnel, and later using ropes to tie heavy tires to roll mines at a distance, and some people simply tied iron railings with ropes to smash, and some were crushed by armored vehicles, which required good driving skills and the ability to find mines. In fact, the recommended treatment method of the army is to hit with a gun, no matter which kind of gun will explode as long as it hits, but isn't the bullet also a waste? In addition, some places are afraid of stray bullets how to get it? So the Russian army took out the advanced equipment of the Uranus-6 multi-functional minesweeper robot.
Uranus-6 is a multi-functional mine-sweeping robot system manufactured by the Russian Rostec Kalashnikov Group "JSC 766 UPTK" Technical Equipment Production Bureau for the Russian Army, its prototype is the MV-4DOK-ING mine-sweeping robot developed in Croatia, russia introduced the production line of the vehicle after the redesign in 2013 to build a prototype, in June 2014, the engineering unit of the Russian Southern Military District conducted a mine-clearance test on the Uranus-6 robot in the region of the Republic of Chechnya, About 20 kg of mines were destroyed during the test. In November 2015, the manufacturer delivered two sets of Uranus-6 robots to the engineering units of the Southern Military Region of Russia, and the Eastern Military Region also received a set of Uranus-6 robots in 2015. In April 2016, Russian forces deployed the Uranus-6 robot to clear mines in Palmyra, Syria. In April 2016, the Uranus-6 was also involved in mine clearance operations by engineer units of the Chechen and Southern Ingushetia Military Districts. In May 2016, Russia began to prepare to export Uranus-6 to the international market, and at present, all major military regions in Russia have Uranus-6 to cope with mine clearance work and reduce casualties.
The Uranus-6 minesweeper robot system consists of a crawler-type unmanned minesweeper, a remote control unit and a payload. The vehicle weighs about 6-7 tons according to different equipment, and the hanging minesweeper is 4.45 meters long, 2.01 meters wide and 1.49 meters high, and can sweep away 1.6 meters of channels. The car is fitted with a 176 kW/240 hp 6-cylinder water-cooled turbo diesel engine with a travel speed of 5 km/h, a minesweeper speed of 0.5-5 km/h, and a ton-ton power ratio of 32 hp/t. The Uranus-6 minesweeper robot can work continuously for 5 hours (16 hours). It can climb obstacles up to a height of 1.2 meters and cross a trench 1.5 meters wide with a gradient of 20°.
The Uranus-6 minesweeper robot is equipped with a variety of tools, including 5 different minesweeper devices for detecting and detonating mines, including a 1.8-meter-wide bulldozer blade, minesweeper roller, bulldozer, gripper, forklift and robotic arm, with a cargo lifting capacity of 1000 kg, and can also be equipped with a solid minesweeper roller with a depth of 200 mm and a width of 1820 mm and a katkov mine sweeping roller. Due to the small size of the fuselage, the maneuverability of the Uranus-6 is very good, it can be transported by land, sea or air, mainly by truck mounting pallets on land, and by putting down the pallets, the Uranus-6 can start driving work.
The body of the Uranus-6 is protected by armor plates 8 to 10 mm thick, the engine is made of HARDOX 400 steel armor, mine-resistant and 7.62 mm bullets, and the chassis can withstand the explosion of 60 kg TNT mines, which can sweep away anti-personnel mines and explosives weighing from 1-4 kg. The body is equipped with four high-definition cameras to provide a 360-degree surround view, the early cameras are unprotected, which obviously increases the additional loss of mines, and the upgraded version also has an armored shell for the camera. The operator controls the Uranus 6 mines at a distance of up to 800 meters through the video footage and joystick of the data communication backpack and remote control terminal, and can also intelligently identify aerial bombs and shells and anti-tank mines, thus greatly improving the efficiency of mine clearance. It can sweep away 2,000 square meters of minefield at a time, which is equivalent to the total workload of 20 sappers a day, and there is no danger at all.
In 2015, the Russian army deployed these new robots to chechnya and the Republic of Ingushetia in the Caucasus to perform demining missions, and formed a 300-person advanced demining force, which increased the efficiency of Russian engineers in the area by 15%, and cleared 80,000 square meters of area in two months. The system also participated in the minesweeping of Palmyra, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor in Syria, the Minesweeper of Nagorno-Karabakh, and the clearance of nearly 50 hectares of land and 17 kilometres of roads in Nagorno-Karabakh and the destruction of some 1,150 explosives. This year, the Russian army is also carrying out large-scale demining operations in the occupied areas of Donesk and Luhansk, this demining is simply too pediatric for Uranus-6, directly crushing the past, there is no need to worry about the damage to the car, after all, this is designed to prevent anti-tank mines. With such advanced equipment, we hope to greatly reduce the casualties of innocent civilians and reduce losses!