minefields in English

noun
1
an area planted with explosive mines.
The core elements of such groups can be tanks (infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers) as well as minefields and explosive obstacles.

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1. I wish we go to the minefields.

2. The vehicle is used primarily for the clearance of obstacles (including minefields).

3. 5 hours ago · Meet the Women Braving Iraq's Minefields

4. Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields.

5. Heavy fog forced the Germans to remain inside their defensive minefields for half an hour.

6. They laid five more minefields off the Dutch coast before the end of the month.

7. With Operation Lightfoot, Montgomery hoped to cut two corridors through the Axis minefields in the north.

8. All properly laid and guarded minefields will have the effect of slowing down an enemy advance

9. All properly laid and guarded minefields will have the effect of slowing down an enemy advance.

10. On either side of the well-guarded checkpoint stretched wire fences, barbed-wire entanglements and minefields.

11. Minefields and picket lines of cruisers, torpedo boats, and submarines were also emplaced there to defend Wilhelmshaven.

12. Countermine tactics Breaching minefields under fire is one of the most complex and challenging tasks in combat

13. All demolitions, minefields, wire entanglements, and other hazards to the safe movement of personnel of the Military Armistice

14. But even in the midst of these minefields, assiduous efforts have been made to fashion a safe passageway.

15. Rommel retreated to a position abutting the British minefields, and Ritchie ordered a counter-attack, Operation Aberdeen on 5 June.

16. To this end, UNIFIL has increased the number of its combat engineering companies working on the project to augment access clearance, including through minefields.

17. The war also left some 117 minefields containing nearly 20,000 mines of various types, including anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines.

18. The Russians' own minefields were larger than had been expected, and so clearing them took longer than the Germans had planned.

19. The KLA must clear minefields and Boobytraps within seven days, leave checkpoints and end any military activity unless approved by Lt-Gen Jackson

20. To this end, UNIFIL has increased the number of its combat engineering companies working on the project to augment access clearance, including through minefields

21. The Italo-German positions on the frontier were fortified with barbed wire and minefields, covered by 50 mm and 88 mm anti-tank guns.

22. The 69th Infantry Brigade would pass through the minefield gap created by the South Africans to Deir el Dhib and clear and mark gaps in further minefields.

23. She was part of the first line of British ships on 18 March as they attempted to suppress the Turkish guns so the minefields could be swept.

24. Late on 26 June, the 90th Light and 21st Panzer Divisions managed to find their way through the minefields in the centre of the front.

25. At 1500, as Alden was about to enter the channel through the minefields, she observed De Ruyter reverse course and make a signal: "I am going to intercept an enemy unit...."

26. During the early morning, the ABDA force continued past Surabaya, and shaped a course toward the entrance to the minefields at 1300 on 27 February.

27. Bombing began on 12 January and XXX Corps attacked on 15 January, picking its way along the coast road, through minefields, demolitions and booby-traps.

28. For the duration of the operation, the ships were stationed outside the gulf in order to prevent Russian reinforcements from disrupting the laying of minefields.

29. The South Africans were to make and mark a gap in the minefields to the south-east of Miteirya by midnight of 26/27 July.

30. Major-General Gatehouse—commanding 1st Armoured Division—had been unconvinced that a path had been adequately cleared in the minefields and had suggested the advance be cancelled.

31. The armored cruiser Yorck left the Jade without permission, and while en route to Wilhelmshaven made a navigational error that led the ship into one of the German minefields.

32. The first attempt on 8 August was unsuccessful, as it had taken too long to clear the Russian minefields to allow the minelayer Deutschland to lay a minefield of her own.

33. With their aircraft stripped of armament — to save weight and to keep them from straying into combats — and loaded with enough extra fuel to extend their flying range to four or five hours, pilots took photos of everything from airfields to minefields, from gun emplacements to basic topographical data for overprinted maps.