demining tank

Machine-translated from the French article

A mine-clearing tank, also called a mine-clearing vehicle, is an armoured vehicle equipped with a mine-clearance device allowing a safe path through a minefield by deliberately detonating land mines in front of the vehicle carrying it. They were first used by the British during the Second World War in the form of a tank with an anti-mine flail, this innovation being part of the many others known as Hobart's Funnies. Originally, the anti-mine flail consisted of a number of heavy chains ending in fist-sized steel balls (flails) attached to a rapidly rotating horizontal rotor mounted on two arms in front of the vehicle.