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Oh blast!(IED detection)
Although Coalition partners in Afghanistan are busy countering the IED threat, the number of these roadside bombs is still rising, according to the Joint IED Defeat Organisation (Jieddo). Inasmuch as these threats remain quite unsophisticated and are produced with homemade explosives, their lack of metallic content makes them difficult to find with conventional mine-detection equipment.
No explosively-formed projectiles have yet been used in the Afghan theatre of operations for this purpose and vehicle-borne IEDs are relatively rare, unlike suicide vest-type IEDs. Compared to Iraq, Afghanistan is therefore a less sophisticated but equally dangerous country from that standpoint--and detection remains a crucial problem. The Joint IED Defeat Organisation follows three lines of operations: attack the network, defeat the device and train the force. The first bullet aims at finding and eliminating bomb makers and their supply sources before the bombs are made an...See the full content of this document
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