The Self-Healing Minefield is an antivehicle obstacle that employs only antitank mines. This obstacle is designed to monitor itself and autonomously respond to any attempt to weaken or alter the minefield's integrity. The minefield consists of up to 1,000 individual mines. Each mine contains a mobility unit used to move the mine within the minefield, a communication unit to permit the exchange of mine status information and sensor data throughout the minefield, onboard intelligence to permit obstacle health monitoring and autonomous decision making in response to attempts to alter the obstacle, and a warhead to engage vehicle targets from a predetermined target set.

The mines are scattered on the surface of the ground in the same manner as the current family of scatterable mines fielded by the U.S. military. Each mine is approximately the same size and mass as the scatterable mines, ensuring close approximation to form and fit while ensuring a significant increase in function.