June 15, 2015
AUSTRALIA is helping Afghan security forces reduce the threat posed by crude but deadly improvised explosive devices.
AFGHAN soldiers and police routinely encounter radio-controlled IEDs which can be detonated by Taliban insurgents from hundreds of metres away.
Australian and other western forces, who have now left Afghanistan, had mostly defeated this threat through use of sophisticated electronic countermeasures which jammed insurgent radio signals.Now Australian defence scientists and defence companies have developed a low-cost version of this system for Afghan soldiers and police.
