GoPro POV Tank Cam Footage Of US Military Assault Breacher Vehicle In IED/MINE Clearing Action

GoPro POV Tank Cam Footage Of US Military M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle In IED/MINE Clearing Action

GoPro b-roll footage of 10th Engineer Battalion using a Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) fired from an M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle to clear an obstacle as part of their Gunnery Table XII at Grafenwoehr, Germany May 19.

This was done via a M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) using a rocket projected explosive line charge.

Video shows the Assault Breacher Vehicle in action and the crater it left behind.

The M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), nicknamed The Shredder, is a U.S. military mine- and explosives-clearing vehicle, based on the M1 Abrams-chassis, equipped with a mine-plough and line charges. Its first large scale use by the US Marines was in the joint ISAF-Afghan Operation Moshtarak in Southern Afghanistan during the War in Afghanistan in 2010 against the Taliban insurgency.

These tracked combat vehicles were especially designed to clear pathways for troops and other vehicles through minefields and along roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices. The 72-ton, 12 m (40 foot)long vehicles are based on the M1 Abrams with a 1,500 horsepower engine, but fitted with a 12.7 mm machine gun and a front-mounted 4.5 m (15-foot) wide plow, supported by metallic skis that glide on the dirt and armed with nearly 3,175 kg (7,000 lb) of explosives.

They were called "the answer" to the deadliest threat facing NATO troops in this conflict. The Breachers are also equipped with M58 MICLIC Mine Clearing Line Charges: rockets carrying C-4 explosives up to 100–150 yards forward, detonating hidden bombs at a safe distance, so that troops and vehicles can pass through safely

In the 1990s, the U.S. Army decided it could not afford to continue developing complicated, maintenance-heavy vehicles for this purpose. The Grizzly program was canceled in 2001. The prototype developed never made it to the production lines. The Marine Corps however persisted and funded its own development and testing. The main body of the final model of the ABV is built on the General Dynamics chassis that is used for the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. Pearson Engineering of the UK provided the specially designed plow and the other mine-clearing accessories.

Credits: Maj. Randy Ready

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[polarjet]

For those who don’t have the smallest clue as to what happened, that is basically a weight on a rope that they launch from that modified abrams, and when the rope hits the ground the begin to pull it back and if it hits an explosive it makes the explosive detonate

[Sinclair_USMC]

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[WarLeaker]

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[ChickentNug]

Can someone explain to me how TOW’s work?

[LymarkW]

How did they tell whether there was an IED or not?

[xxbloodzxx]

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[MrHDHD]

Where is this, in a national park or something? lol

[aurelienclair]

nice but this method don't work with modern's blast resistant mines .

[WarLeaker]

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[dmitrybogdanov]

such a crap. that cable could have been shot so many times already