De-mining drones aim to rid the world of land mines within 10 years

Posted on 5 Oct 2016 by Aiden Burgess

Land mines could become a thing of the past, at least that's the aim of a team that has created a drone it hopes will put an end to the destructive device which still kills and maims more than 20,000 people each year.

Developed by the Mine Kafon Foundation, the drone maps, detects and detonates land mines from a safe distance. The Mine Kafon Drone is an airborne demining system developed with the aim to clear all land mines around the world in less than 10 years. The project aims to clear the millions of land mines leftover…

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