The blast embarrassed the United States Navy, which had tried to clear such mines.
The money will be used to meet humanitarian needs and for human rights programs, clearing mines and setting up a police force.
The Sherman tank, for example, can clear mines using an obtainable mine flail.
This can defeat the use of mine-clearing line charges to clear such mines.
This feature makes it difficult or impossible to clear such mines using explosive minefield breaching techniques.
The engineers threw hand grenades into the ports, while others cut through the barbed wire and cleared mines.
"For instance, this one is from a company that clears mines from the ground."
In his team of eight sappers, clearing mines and securing buildings, someone seemed to die every day and be replaced.
The D9s razed the sand barrier around the canal and cleared mines near it.
Also cleared mines off the Vietnamese coast toward the end of the Vietnam War.
