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    The Mine detector (Polish) Mark I (Polish: wykrywacz min) was a metal detector for landmines developed during World War II. Initial work on the design...
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    locating of mines. A Polish officer, Józef Kosacki, developed a portable mine detector known as the Polish mine detector. To counter the detector, Germans...
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    early years of World War II, who refined the design into a practical Polish mine detector. These units were still quite heavy, as they ran on vacuum tubes...
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    Demining (redirect from Mine detector)
    radar) has been employed in tandem with metal detectors. Acoustic methods can sense the cavity created by mine casings. Sensors have been developed to detect...
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    metal detector – the Polish mine detector. The Germans responded with mines that had a wooden or glass casing to make detection harder. Wooden mines had...
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    Glasmine 43 (category Anti-personnel mines)
    minimum amount of metal to reduce the likelihood of detection by the Polish mine detector then in use by Allied forces. The reduced use of metal was also beneficial...
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    Józef Kosacki (category Polish Army officers)
    officer in the Polish Army during World War II. He is best known as the inventor of the Polish mine detector, the first portable mine detector, whose basic...
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    Major battles and campaigns in which Polish regular forces took part: Józef Kosacki invented the Polish mine detector, which would be used by the Allies...
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    writer and administrator Józef Kosacki (1909–1990) – inventor of the Polish mine detector, first used in Second Battle of El Alamein Jerzy Kulczycki (1931-2013)...
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    810 killed or missing and 8,950 wounded. The Polish Mine Detector designed in Scotland in 1941 by the Polish engineer and signals officer, Lieutenant Józef...
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