VDM (Vehicule detecteur de mines) – Countermine route clearance system

VDM is a combat proven route clearance solution able to clear 150km of route per day with a maximum speed of 25km/h. MBDA’s VDM is particularly effective against mines and IEDs, for securing shuttle traffic (supply convoys) or for opening up main routes during combat operations.

The modular vehicle can operate within a combat engineer detachment as a counter-IED system dedicated to the clearing of threats during route opening missions.
VDM is blast resistant and its existing configuration provides a strong level of protection for the crew through standoff activation of the threat along with a protected cabin to counteract ballistic threats and blasts.
Counter-IED:

The VDM is a highly capable C-IED route clearance vehicle which combines maximum survivability with excellent all-road performance and a huge level of flexibility.

VDM is versatile and can be configured to meet the wide spectrum of threats and operating environments. It operates:

• a decoy package on a pushed decoy boom allowing a standoff activation of IEDs in front of the vehicle over a 3.9 m track width,
• an under-belly metal detector for the detection of buried IEDs over a 3m track width
• an automated marking device to mark out the detected threat.The VDM offers high growth potential to face fast evolving in-theatreVDM threats. It is in service with the French army since 2 years.

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