Scatter mining have never been what he says it is.

Okay, I see that has been written by a journalist…

Jim says:

If drones shall be mines, why shouldn’t drones be miners?

They could also be minesweepers. Even for something less noticeable than dropped mines.

First pass is a flyby with non-linearity detector. All electronics that isn’t shielded up the yingyang shows.

After that, classics. Just hang good old pulse minesweeper sensor on a cable from some cheap quad-copter (since sweeping is slow and payload is very modest, performance requirements are low).

No dude with helmet and whatnot at arm + cane length, so no extra moving metal in a few meters, other than the cable. The trade-off is increased weather dependency.

It’s still slow, too. But maybe fielding great amount of these things in mostly automated mode would help.

P.S. Love them or hate them, it’s genuinely impressive how resilient the Ukrainian military command has been. Yes, it’s a proxy of the United State; nevertheless, most other proxies would’ve folded long, long ago.