Recently released test footage of an all-terrain drone designed to deliver anti-tank land mines directly underneath of enemy tanks is a huge throwback to an older system first designed during World War 2.

During the second World War, Nazi Germany developed a system known as the Goliath Tracked Mine. The purpose of this system was to maneuver on and destroy allied armor before it was in range of their own tanks and infantry.

At the time, the Goliath program seemed like an insane innovation, but there was a fatal flaw in the program that prevented them from causing much damage on the battlefield. Technology of the era was limited to analog hard-wires. So, in order for troops to utilize the Goliath Tracked Mine in combat, the vehicle would have to spool out wire behind it as it travelled to it's target, which pretty much defeated the entire purpose of the program.

Nearly 8,000 units were produced by German forces for the war, however very few of them ever reached their intended target due to the limitations of the technology. In this video, you can actually see allied troops using the Tiny Tanks as toys in the rear.

I think this new wireless system is going to end up being far more effetive on the modern battlefield now that a majority of the original system's technological limitations have been overcome.

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