Engineering:Aardvark JSFU

Aardvark Joint Service Flail Unit
Aardvark Joint Service Flail Unit
	A French Army 17th Engineering Regiment Aardvark Joint Services Flail Unit (JSFU) in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Type	demining vehicle
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Specifications
Crew	1+1
Armour	56 mm armoured glass windows, double-skin cab floor
Engine	turbo charged New Holland diesel engine; 160 hp
Transmission	4-speed syncromesh; 4 gears, 16-speed

Aardvark JSFU (Joint Service Flail Unit) Mark 4 is a British-made Mine flail vehicle built by Aardvark Clear Mine Limited registered in Dumfries, Scotland.

The JSFU flail system was developed in Aberdeenshire by David Macwatt of Elgin, Scotland and George Sellar & Son of Huntly (system designers were James (Barney) Hepburn, Pat McRobbie and Alistair Birnie) with the cooperation of Ford Motor Co, Basildon. George Sellar & Son owned a number of patents concerning the rotor and chain design and electronic depth contouring system and manufactured the flail assembly. The armoured vehicle was manufactured by Glover & Webb of Southampton until their acquisition by GKN who continued to armour vehicles for a period before Penman Engineering were given the contract.

Aardvark Clear Mine Ltd was acquired in 2016 from Penman Engineering Ltd of Dumfries, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Aardvark Holdings Ltd.

Aardvark's Global business is managed from the UK with operational and training facilities in Dumfries in the Scottish Borders and Insch in Aberdeenshire.

Aardvark clearance machines have been used by the military and humanitarian mine clearance organisations in Europe, Africa and in the Middle and Far East. Aardvarks have also been chosen by the British and American forces for landmine clearance in Afghanistan^[1] and Iraq.^[2]