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The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a new competition on behalf of the Future Aviation Security Solutions programme (FASS) focusing on vehicle checkpoint (VCP) screening at airports. This competition is focusing on new solutions to the challenge of Read More …
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) on Monday launched the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (MASAM), a five-year program that aims to dismantle mines in Yemen. According to Saudi Press Agency, Riyadh-based KSRelief launched the Saudi Project Read More …
Eight soldiers were wounded in an accidental explosion involving an improvised explosive device (IED) they recovered following a clash with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu, the military reported. Brig. Gen. Divino Rey Pabayo, Joint Task Force Sulu commander, disclosed that Read More …
The Nigerian military has listed lack of Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) equipment, insufficiency of accurate actionable intelligence, impropriety in Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) activities and lack of community resilience on the part of the locals as major impediments to the Read More …
The MIA Directorate in the Stavropol region has put the Hummer and the two people inside it on the wanted list. The hitmen are suspected of killing a Stavropol entrepreneur three days ago, according to Lenta.ru’s high-ranking local police source. The Read More …
Zimbabwe’s government is calling an explosion Saturday an assassination attempt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was holding a campaign rally at a stadium. The President escaped injuries, but others were injured and hospitalized. The blast occurred at White City Stadium Read More …
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are the new threat to Jammu and Kashmir, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) director general Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar told ET. “Now IEDs are back in J&K. IEDs are the new threat. Last year there were very Read More …
A fake explosive at O’Hare International Airport had TSA wondering if Wile E. Coyote was in the building. It also forced a nearly 20-minute delay at a security checkpoint in the airport. The “replica improvised explosive decide” was spotted in Read More …
Fort Leonard Wood’s Counter Explosive Hazards Center and the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence hosted all four of the Army’s Explosive Hazards Coordination Cells for training June 2 through 15. Throughout the two weeks, Soldiers with the 475th EHCC from Read More …
The British army has unveiled a new ‘social media’ app which allows soldiers to win wars using their mobile phones. The Dismounted Situational Awareness Tool has been hailed a “game changer” by a senior Army officer after trials during the Read More …
Of all the roles in the British Army, one of the most dangerous is that of the ammunition technical officer, who has the daunting task of dismantling, defusing and disposing bombs and other explosive ordnance, often in the most hostile Read More …
Cambodia and China on Tuesday signed documents on mine clearance, preparation of transport master plan and renovation of the Angkor Thom Royal Palace. The documents were inked here between Cambodian and Chinese officials under the presence of Cambodian Minister of Read More …
A massive explosion left 32 persons dead and 84 others injured in Abbachari, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State at the weekend as the orgy of violence in the North-east showed resilience in spite of desperate military efforts to Read More …
The Shin Bet security service announced Sunday that it had uncovered a ring of Hamas operatives in Nablus that had been working since October to plan terror attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere. The network was “exceptional in its scope and activities,” the Read More …
Eight police personnel were killed on Sunday when their vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device in Bojigaras area, Wajir County, according to a government official. North Eastern regional coordinator Muhammad Saleh told Anadolu Agency: “We are pursuing the attackers Read More …
Organized in partnership with the National Training Center of the Dutch Ministry of Defense, NCT Europe will take place in Vught, the Netherlands, from the 3rd to the 5th of July. CBRNe stands for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and explosive Read More …
A new NATO project, EXTRAS, led by research institutions in Italy and Serbia, will make it possible to detect explosives and prevent terrorist attacks on public transport. The project, funded by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme, will Read More …
The Nigerian Army has expressed alarm over what it described as emerging but dangerous trend of the use of Improvised Explosive Device, IED, as weapon in the South Eastern part of the country. The Army said that although the zone Read More …
Trained bees have been successfully used for the first time to find mines in a former Yugoslavian warzone, a Scottish scientist has revealed. The honey bees led mine clearance teams to unexploded ordnance in Croatia after they were trained to Read More …
A bomb disposal team of Nepal Army defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a parked vehicle belonging to Mayor of Damak Municipality Rom Nath Oli on Thursday. Upon finding a suspicious material wrapped in a carton on the Read More …
