Tag: IED
Northrop to Provide Dismounted IED Jammers for US Marines
The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) to provide electronic jamming backpack systems to counter the threat of roadside improvised explosive...
Adding more tools to counter-improvised explosive device toolbox
For years, route clearance patrols have helped keep the streets of Afghanistan safe from improvised explosive devices. U.S. Army combat engineers scour the country...
Bomb-detecting lasers could improve security checkpoints
Michigan State University research has put the possibility of bomb-detecting lasers at security checkpoints within reach. In the current issue of Applied Physics...
EOD supports Afghan Army’s counter-IED training
Soldiers with 2nd Platoon, 49th Explosive Ordinance Disposal Company, attached to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), supported the Afghan...
Sandia Offers Non-explosive Fertilizer Formula
A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate...
JLENS-Mounted Sensors Observe Mock-IED Demo
A recent demonstration proved that operators can observe surface moving targets -- including a terrorist role-player planting an improvised explosive device -- in real...
Counter IED Lab Saves Lives in Afghanistan
Of all the weapons deployed by terrorists the improvised explosive device (IED) is the most effective, causing more combat casualties than any other method...
Congress told IEDs will remain ‘weapon of choice’ for decades
Improvised explosive devices and the networks that use these asymmetric weapons, will remain an enduring threat to U.S. forces and the nation for decades...
Threat of Terrorist IED’s Growing, Expanding, General Says
The threat posed by crude homemade bombs known as improvised explosive devices is growing and spreading across the globe, and will be the terrorists’...
Division West Soldiers test new technology to defeat IEDs
Military combat engineers and civilian technical experts gathered here recently to conduct a series of experiments aimed at providing Soldiers with new technology in...
