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Description. The Mole Plough for tank Al-Zarrar is a device to provide the tank quick and safe access through live mine field. It should be easily fitted with tank Al-Zarrar and effective against all types of buried mines including tilt rod mines and would be operational in hard soft and loamy ground conditions. All major and minor components of the equipment should be easily replaceable in the field. The buried mine should be dugged out and rolled off to the outer side of each track/ tank. Lifting and lowering of the equipment should be operated from inside the tank.
Specifications
- Overall width
- Open blades - 3 inches (Both sides, in addition to cleared width)
- Cleared width - Minimum 25 inches (In front of each track)
- Tines
- Number of tines - Minimum 8 (4 x on each side)
- Distance between tines - Maximum 7 inches
- Ploughing depth
- Soft and loamy soil - 10 inches
- Hard soil - 9 inches
- Weight of equipment - Maximum 1200 kg
- Mode of operation - Mechanical
- Setting modes - Stowed, pre-operation and operational
- Group - A-Group
- Project Officer - Lt Col Syed Zaigham Hafeez
Lt Col Muhammad Kamal Khan
Details
- Name of Proj (as per contract) - Ind Dev of Mole Plough For Tank Al-Zarrar
- Contract No. - 27/174/2004/MP/Al-Zarrar/MV-8A
- Prototype / Series - Prototype
- Firm - M/s Agrocon Lhr
- Date of Contract - 15 Jun 2004
- Date of completion - Apr 07
- Sponsor - AC Dte
- Cost per unit - No Cost No Obligation Basis
- Total Qty / Total cost - 01
- Saving - 3.90 Mn
- Time taken to dev of proj - 2.5 years