The Python was created and is in use by the British Royal Engineers to clear half a kilometer of possible IED territory. It is the latest British weapon against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"The Python rocket is a trailer-mounted, rocket-propelled mine-clearing system pulled behind the Trojan armoured engineer tank. The Python system fires a snake of high explosives. The detonation, across a suspected IED field in a dry river bed – wadi – north of Patrol Base Wahid, shook the ground either side of the detonation, and created a huge cloud several hundred metres high."
Sources: [Gizmodo] [Ministry of Defense]
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