The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), which will fill the gap between the legacy High Mobility Mutlipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ("Humvee") and the bulkier, less
mobile Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, is using a commercial off-the-shelf-based acquisition strategy and adaptive approach to lower costs and incorporate improvements over the program's life cycle.
The Helmet-CAM technology has proven to be a viable tool to perform this assessment and determine where and when a
mobile mine worker is being exposed to respirable dust.
Navy's submarine launched
mobile mine (SLMM), can be launched at a distance and navigate to where it will lie in wait.
The shallow-water Chen-1, -2, -3, and -6 influence mines can be placed for defense of ports and harbors; the T-5
mobile mine can be laid in deeper waters in channels and approaches to ports; and the Soviet PMK-1 and the Chinese-developed Mao-5 rocket rising mines are intended for deeper waters farther from ports and in open-ocean areas and choke points.
She has served with
Mobile Mine Assemble Unit (MOMAU) TEN, Okinawa, Japan; Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) EIGHT SEVEN, Virginia Beach, Va., as the Automatic Data Processing Leading Petty Officer; Mine Hunter Coastal (MHC) Crew Force aboard USS 5DYHQ (MHC 61), forward deployed to Bahrain as the Weapons Leading Petty Officer; and as Leading Petty Officer, High Speed Vessel (HSV)-2 Swift, Little Creek, Va.
These solutions will bring fuel cost reductions and emissions improvements to the sector through focused applications in the form of
mobile mine haul fleets and other stationary applications.
China reportedly has completed development of a
mobile mine and may be producing improved variants of Russian bottom mines and moored-influence mines.
But just as its war against Angolan-backed forces in SWA obliged South Africa to hone its demining skills, so too the war which led to the establishment of Zimbabwe encouraged the development of
mobile mine detection systems.
The natural next phase of evolution towards the automation of underground mines is the implementation of information management solutions that use the existing leaky feeder as an enabling infrastructure, giving management access to real time information of their
mobile mine resources including personnel, equipment, and materials.