Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd. Ramta Division Awarded US Army CECOM Development and Test Contract for Severe Duty Vegetation Shredder
Oct 18, 2000
Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel - US Army CECOM awarded the IAI Ramta Division a contract for the development of the Severe Duty Vegetation Shredder (SDVS), a vehicle-based system for safely and effectively removing dense vegetation from known or suspected areas afflicted by anti-personnel landmines.
The SDVS answers the need for accessibility to areas where years of growth have allowed a variety of vegetation types to overgrow minefields, making accessibility to mined terrain and clearing of anti-personnel landmines more difficult and extremely hazardous. The SDVS will directly support demining teams during humanitarian operations and 'Operations Other Than War (OOTW)'.
Under the terms of this $500K contract, Ramta will develop and integrate the SDVS system, test it in a variety of landscapes containing various types of vegetation including small trees, and supply a readily available system to the customer for use by demining teams in troubled regions around the world. The project's scope of work covers adaptation and integration of a commercially off-the-shelf system onto a commercially available tractor, and consists of a shredding implement with drum mounted, rotating knives, hydraulic power unit, and essential support structure and vehicle interfaces.
Anti-Personnel landmines kill and maim thousands of innocent people annually. In addition, to minefields which exist along the borders of most countries, there still exist both marked and unmarked minefields from past world wars and other age-old conflicts where years without access and neglect have allowed dense vegetation to overgrow them. This has made access by demining teams particularly hazardous.
The IAI Ramta Division is a longtime specialist and developer of mine breaching and mine-clearing systems. The company's mine plows and anti-magnetic mine actuators were successfully used by United States forces in the 1991 Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations, and are part of the inventories of dozens of countries worldwide.
For more information, contact:
Doron Suslik
Deputy Corp VP for Communications
Tel: 972 (3) 93 5-8509
Fax: 972 (3) 935-8512
Email: hpaz@hdq.iai.co.il
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