Commonly fitted with the D7 bulldozer blade, or a mine-clearing equipment.

This type is equipped with a 1-man turret, additional search lights and Pearson mine-clearing equipment.

Additionally, there were often inadequate supplies of mine-clearing equipment for all the allied ground forces rolling into Kuwait.

Since combat engineers with mine-clearing equipment can clear a path through a minefield relatively quickly, mines are usually considered effective only if covered by fire.

It has several hundred highly trained special operations troops, excellent mine-clearing equipment and some of the quietest diesel submarines in the world.

-- mine-resistant vehicles and mine-clearing equipment.

One American official said Vietnamese officials expressed interest in acquiring American mine-clearing equipment and military spare parts.

A new multiple rocket launcher for scattering antitank mines appeared in 1979, but mine-laying and mine-clearing equipment remained scarce.

An initial shipment of mine detectors is to be followed by personal protection equipment, deep metal detectors, unexploded-ordnance disposal tools and underwater mine-clearing equipment.

Dozens of Soviet-made Syrian T-64 tanks with mine-clearing equipment were lined up along the 12-miles that divide Beirut into Muslim and Christian halves.

The next afternoon, the LST disembarked 218 Army engineers and unloaded mine-clearing equipment to LCTs for transfer to the beach.

Despite these armaments, rebel operations, especially against the region's major cities, suffered because of an inadequate logistics system and a lack of artillery, mine-clearing equipment, ammunition, and communications gear.

Notable is its artillery, particularly G5 and self-propelled G6 155-millimetre canons, Rooikat armoured fighting vehicles, Rooivalk combat helicopters and mine-resistant troop transports and mine-clearing equipment.

No Cutbacks Yet The guerrillas say it has been difficult for them to regain momentum because they have not received all the mortars, mine-clearing equipment and other weapons promised by the United States.

American officials said today that the United States was sending new mine-clearing equipment, missiles, mortars, artillery shells and other weapons to the Afghan guerrillas in the hope that they could regain momentum in fighting Afghan Government troops.