Editing Mine roller (section)

{{Short description|Device mounted on a tank that clears mines by detonating them}}
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[[File:M60-panther-mcgovern-base.jpg|thumb|300px| A US Army Panther mine-clearing variant of the [[M60 tank]]. It is fitted with mine rollers and operated by remote control.]]

A '''mine roller''' or '''mine trawl''' is a [[demining]] device mounted on a [[tank]] or [[armoured personnel carrier]], designed to detonate anti-tank [[land mine|mines]]. It allows [[Combat engineer|combat engineers]] to clear a lane through a minefield which is protected by enemy fire.

The device is usually composed of a fork or two push arm assemblies fitted to the front of a tank hull, with two banks of rollers that can be lowered in front of the tank's tracks. Each roller bank has several heavy wheels studded with short projecting steel girders, which apply a higher [[ground pressure]] than the tank's tracks. This ensures the explosion of pressure-fused anti-tank mines, which would otherwise explode under the track itself.{{sfn|Bishop|2014|pages=61−62}}