mine-sweepers

Eventually, the Chechens made a dash for freedom, walking across a minefield at night, using their prisoners as human mine-sweepers.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Eventually, the Chechens made a dash for freedom, walking across a minefield at night, using their prisoners as human mine-sweepers.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Eventually, the Chechens made a dash for freedom, walking across a minefield at night, using their prisoners as human mine-sweepers.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Eventually, the Chechens made a dash for freedom, walking across a minefield at night, using their prisoners as human mine-sweepers.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The military junta has forced tens of thousands of child soldiers into its army and routinely uses civilians as mine-sweepers and slave laborers ...

Evelyn Leopold: UN Chief Visits Burma: A Political Gamble 2009

Adding insult to injury, the army uses children as soldiers, seeds the Karen territory with land mines, and then forces Karen people to act as mine-sweepers by traversing the terrain ahead of the army.

Russ Wellen: Karen Independence Movement: Seven Decades Of Futility? (Pt. 2) 2009

Standard textbook attack procedure was to send a wave of fighters, blast ships, and mine-sweepers into a system ahead of the main war vessels, both to soften up the first wave of resistance and to have full tactical sensor data ready to download to the fleet commander when the flagship finally made its appearance.

Angelmass Zahn, Timothy 2001

They arranged to get a couple of second-hand destroyers from Britain, some frigates, mine-sweepers and gunboats from the United States.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

The views of Raeder and the Naval Staff on the minefields were that 'the lift of the sea and the current diminish the degree of effectiveness, while barrage-breaking vessels and mine-sweepers, not to mention protective gear, make it possible to force these obstacles'; and they felt that 'the use of artillery to block the Dover Straits is only of slight importance in face of a determined opponent'.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

The curtain of fire from the sea covering the landing troops will be supplemented by the guns of armed naval vessels (mine-sweepers, &c).

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958