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Dublin residents in the Sandymount / Ringsend area were shocked this evening as army bomb disposal experts and gardaí rushed to the scene of a discovery which required a controlled explosion. A statement from an Garda Síochána this evening said: Read More …
An annual exercise aimed at showing recruits how to get rid of explosive devices took part in Iceland. A NATO mission training soldiers in bomb disposal, used in conflicts throughout the world, is now a crucial part of the multi-national Read More …
Barrie police Const. Kevin Barkley, donned in a heavy, green armoured suit that covers him from head to toe, uses long-handled forceps to nudge debris on the pavement at a parking lot at 108 Anne St. N. near Edgehill Drive. Read More …
More people will climb Mount Everest this year than get a highly dangerous certification. The nation’s only hazardous devices school graduates 400 people a year, very few are women. One of those female graduates is making history in Cincinnati. “We were Read More …
A military task force on Wednesday defused a 337-kg bomb left over from the Vietnam War in a forest in Quang Binh Province. The U.S. multi-purpose bomb had a M112 demolition charge. It was discovered by locals in a melaleuca forest Read More …
150 members of law enforcement from across the state are taking part in the 7th Annual Excelsior Challenge at the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany. This year’s event plays host to the largest contingent of law enforcement specialties to Read More …
Bomb technicians of the Philippine National Police-Explosive Ordnance Division (PNP-EOD) disposed of some 362 lbs. of explosives seized in various operations. In a statement Wednesday, the PNP-EOD said the explosives were disposed of in a “critical disposal mission” at Col. Read More …
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. – Explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the 87th Civil Engineer Squadron, train to dispose of the disabled ordnance at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept 26, 2023. The EOD technicians are trained to clear unexploded ordnance Read More …
Hungarian Defense Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky confirmed today that the command of the EUFOR Althea mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be taken over by Major General Laszlo Sticz from January 1, 2024, and announced the reinforcement of the mission with Read More …
The European Defence Agency has overseen the final demonstration of coordination between aerial and ground unmanned systems in the detection of explosives. During the demonstration, one aerial unmanned system and two ground unmanned systems, each equipped with different sensors, undertook Read More …
U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs returned home to Fort Leonard, Missouri, following a three-month training session with Senegalese Armed Forces EOD troops in Dakar, Senegal. Soldiers from the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD) recently conducted new equipment and counter Improvised Read More …
The law-enforcement agencies on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a car-bomb attack in the city and seized an explosives-laden car from a parking lot near a police station in the Eastern Bypass area. “Over 35 kilograms of high Read More …
Police locked down and evacuated a section of Barrie, Ont., Wednesday in the city’s west end after an explosion in a parking lot. Barrie Police Services Corporate Communications Coordinator Peter Leon said the improvised explosive device (IED) is believed to Read More …
Cambodia concluded the first international humanitarian mine action exercise themed “Pure Homeland 2023” conducted within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers-Plus on Friday. The first-of-its-kind multinational exercise, that began on September 13 at the Multinational Peacekeeping Force Training School Read More …
It’s not every day that a bomb is unearthed in Singapore, but a massive one just turned up at a construction site in Bukit Timah. Coming in at a whopping 100kg, the World War II aerial bomb will be detonated Read More …
Specialist British military bomb disposal teams are training Ukrainian engineers to clear Russian minefields. Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world, and it’s slowing down Ukrainian military advances. The training by British Army sappers – combat Read More …
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.— Some of the Air Force’s most dangerous missions are undertaken by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squads regardless of the hostilities and hazards of an unpredictable environment. Dangerous and ever evolving threats to people and property Read More …
Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Constable Armstrong Regoso and Staff Sergeant Ansa Puaraua recently travelled to Nauru with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) on Operation Render Safe to conduct reconnaissance and survey reported explosive remnants of war. This was Read More …
Bomb disposal experts were called to a former recycling centre after a tin of gunpowder was discovered by a worker during refurbishment work. The 1kg (2.2lb) tin was found at the former Mile Cross household waste centre in Swanton Road, Read More …
While inside the home of a dead veteran on Tuesday, Cobb County police had to deal with a rare situation. Officers were made aware of several unexploded grenades dating back more than 50 years. The Cobb bomb squad then responded Read More …