Watch on WHIAC: The US Army is to spend $353 million on a suitcase-size

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The US Army is to spend $353 million on a suitcase-size weapon that can ‘hear’ enemy tanks.

The smart anti-tank mine detects enemy vehicles’ sounds and then destroys them with an armor-piercing slug.

The weapon is a new landmine designed to attack the thinner armor on the top of tanks.

The Army sees the weapon as a way to restrict an enemy’s room to maneuver its armored vehicles.

The Army recently awarded Textron a contract to produce the XM20, a “wide area top-attack munition.”

The Army doesn’t call the XM204 a landmine and for good reason

Mines have been widely condemned because of their harm to civilians even decades after deployment.

XM204 is described as a “wide area top-attack munition” that uses acoustic sensors to detect and identify incoming tanks.