AI-powered drones are now scanning minefields in Ukraine at a pace that manual survey teams cannot match, with one company ...

While landmines in general are pretty awful, the PFM-1 "butterfly" mine is particularly nasty. Because of its mainly plastic construction, the butterfly-shaped device is notoriously difficult to find ...

Children mistook the mines for toys when they were used in the Soviet-Afghan War. "This poses a threat to both the local population and humanitarian mine clearance operations," the UK Defense Ministry ...

Scientists have developed a method of automatically detecting hidden landmines by using AI to scan images captured by drones. Researchers from New York’s Binghamton University designed the system to ...

Researchers detect remnant minefields using low-cost commercial drone, infrared camera BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Drones could be used to detect dangerous "butterfly" landmines in remote regions of ...

Russia has likely tried to deploy “deeply controversial, indiscriminate” anti-personnel mines as Moscow ramps up its assaults on Ukraine, according to the United Kingdom’s defense ministry. The use of ...

DONETSK, November 25. /TASS/. Almost 90 residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have sustained wounds of varying severity caused by PFM-1 anti-personnel mines (Butterfly mines) from Ukraine’s ...

Russia is likely using "unreliable and unpredictable" butterfly mines in Ukraine, UK intelligence said. Children mistook the mines for toys when they were used in the Soviet-Afghan War. "This poses a ...