The U.S. Marine Corps plans to develop a prototype for a robotic system that would scour near-beach waters for mines and destroy them without endangering warf ighters. The Crawling Remotely Operated Amphibious Breacher, or CRAB, is planned to be a submersible, autonomous system that would destroy mines with a tiller, flail or rake. "In theory, the CRAB system will breach through man-made obstacles in the surf zone," says Capt. Anthony Molnar, Marine Corps Systems Command's MK154 and MK155 project officer. "We will save lives and reduce costs for the Department of the Navy and the Marine Corps."
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