A prototype of Ted Cranford's noisemaker, which the Navy had hoped to use to detect mines through echolocation. (discovermagazine.com)
Weetjens got a grant from the Belgian government to pioneer this technique in 1997 and now rats are being used almost exclusively in Africa to find and detect mines. (businessinsider.com)
The major technical challenge in clearing minefields is detecting the mines. (sciencedaily.com)