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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has commended the United Nations Mine Action Service, for training 24 Police officers at the Borno Command on proper usage of Explosive Ordinance Disposal and a donation of requisite equipment to perform effectively. Read More …
For the past decade, the menace of attacks using Improvised Explosive Devices in some parts of the country has been devastating. Official counts show Kenya has lost more than 100 security officials and two times more civilians to IEDs set Read More …
Police today recovered 6 kg of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) material on National Highway from a person in Srinagar. A police spokesman said that Srinagar police on technical inputs arrested one person – Zahid Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Aaziz Read More …
It was as close to a vision of hell as I am ever likely to come across. I was in a dark tunnel of the London Underground, 100ft beneath Russell Square station. All the living and injured had been evacuated Read More …
DASA has launched a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Countering IEDs by Novel Technology and Techniques. Seeking novel electronic technologies that can counter Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Between £150k – £400k per proposal It is vital that UK military Read More …
Under the quiet jungle canopy of the Canungra field training area in Tamborine Mountain, south-east Queensland, three teams of six explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians worked methodically to detect, identify and render safe improvised explosive devices (IEDs). As metal detectors Read More …
Turkish security forces defused a bomb planted in a truck in Syria’s northern Jerablus region, bordering Türkiye, the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry, police received a tip that the truck carrying a bomb was left Read More …
The Defence Science and Technology Department (DSTD) have certified two locally made Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) robots to be used for commercial purposes and in Thailand’s deep south. The Defence Technology Institute (DTI) announced on Wednesday the DSTD certified its Read More …
The United Nations’ 6th Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping International Symposium is scheduled to take place at the CSIR in Pretoria from 21 to 24 June and will cover a range of topics relevant to peacekeepers, from protection and training Read More …
Top officials of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), and key stakeholders, have concluded a three-day conference to take stock of the current measures to counter Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), in Read More …
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Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops deployed under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) recently removed and successfully, safely detonated a Remote Controlled Under Vehicle Improvised Explosive Device (RC UVIED) in Dhobley town, Somalia. The Improvised Explosive Device was Read More …
Delta Diving Unit from the Diving & Threat Exploitation Group (DTXG) based on Horsea Island in Portsmouth, practised identifying – and neutralising – a range of explosive devices in the water and ashore across Lithuania. Alongside their Canadian, Lithuanian, US, Read More …
PHILIPPINE SEA – Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 3 Sailors, embarked on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), conducted a helicopter visit, board, search and seizure training aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG Read More …
BISON COUNTER, the largest and most relevant European Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) exercise, will in the future be organised directly under the auspices of EDA instead of only benefitting from the Agency’s support, as in the past. To that Read More …
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AGADEZ, Niger — U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to the 409th Air Expeditionary Group, conducted a joint counter-improvised explosive device exercise with Soldiers from the Nigerien Armed Forces (French language: Forces Armées Nigeriennes – FAN) at the Read More …
Law enforcement officers in Lamu county have received landmine and Improvised Explosive Devices awareness training to enable them to enhance their security. The training, which was conducted by the Centre for Civilians in Conflict (Civic), is also meant to enable Read More …
Marines may be learning whole new ways to fight in a new kind of littoral battlespace, against different adversaries such as the Chinese military, but an old foe still lurks on any likely future battlefield: improvised explosive devices. While the Read More …
Security forces have destroyed two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the Maoists in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh on Thursday averting a threat to the lives of police forces. According to police, the IEDs were found planted on a road leading Read More …
