Nagorno Karabakh: Turkish team begins clearing mines in Upper Karabakh

Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Dec. 16 that 136 members of the Special Mine Detection and Clearance Team (OMAT) began clearing mined areas of Upper Karabakh that were liberated from Armenian occupation. “Clearing of mines and handmade explosives continues in Read More …

Pakistan: Law enforcers in Karachi foil bomb plot

Law enforcers foiled on Tuesday morning a bid to detonate a magnetic improvised explosive device (IED) in Clifton, near a Chinese restaurant in close proximity to Bilawal House. CCTV footage, acquired after a bomb disposal squad defused the explosive device, Read More …

EXU-1 Receives Navy Unit Commendation from Secretary of the Navy

Indian Head, Md. – Expeditionary Exploitation Unit 1 (EXU-1) personnel are widely regarded as the Navy’s premier mobile explosive ordnance disposal expeditionary and technical exploitation unit. With the reception of the Navy Unit Commendation (NUC) from the Secretary of the Navy, Read More …

379th ESFS and EOD team up for counter UAS training

The 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron and 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team partnered for a counter-small unmanned aerial systems training event at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Dec. 11, 2020. Small UAS are a concern for Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: IED recovered from bag in Kupwara, defused

The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) of Army on Sunday defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) after recovering it from a bag at Gulgam area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district earlier today. Defence sources told the news agency that Army’s BDS Read More …

Afghanistan: ANP defused several IEDs in Kabul, Sar-e-Pul and Faryab provinces

The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul, Sar-e-Pul & Faryab provinces. The terrorists had planted the bombs to target the innocent civilians. The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point Read More …

The US Air Force wants to buy a big robot to help with bomb disposal

A year after the U.S. Army awarded a contract to build a heavy-duty robot able to dispose of bombs and other explosives, the Air Force is looking for its own system — and it wants to see what’s on the Read More …

Kingdom of Thailand incorporates seven explosive deactivation aunav.NEXT robots

aunav has supplied to an active counter-terrorism unit in Thailand with seven aunav.NEXT robots and seven aunav.VAN command and control vehicles. The robots, designed and manufactured in Spain, will help neutralize threats in the southern provinces of Thailand. Madrid, 2 Read More …

Afghan National Police arrested a terrorist with an explosive-laden cart in Kabul, 10 IEDs defused in Kandahar, Zabul and Urzgan provinces

ANP arrested a terrorist with an explosive-laden cart in PD#1, Jalalabad City of Nangarhar. The terrorist wanted to use the explosives-packed cart for a suicide attack in Camp area. The timely discovery of the explosives has foiled terror attack and Read More …

Hertfordshire: Police attend Garston station after reports of suspicious package

A controlled explosion has been carried out a railway station this afternoon. Police officers and a bomb disposal unit were spotted at Garston train station, and the station was taped off. The British Transport Police says it received reports of Read More …

New training concept could be the future of foreign ordnance exploitation

CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – A Marine shouts, “Fire in the hole!” The proclamation leads to a moment of stillness; silence fills what will soon be a blast site. A loud “whump” precedes an earth-shaking shockwave. Dirt lifts from the Read More …

Afghanistan: ANP discovered and defused roadside bombs in Kabul, Nimruz, Kapisa and Kandahar provinces

ANP discovered and neutralized eight roadside bombs after several hours of efforts & point to point search operations in Kabul & Nimruz provinces. The terrorists had planted the bombs to target the innocent civilians. ANP discovered & neutralized eight roadside Read More …

Libya: Criminal Investigation Department concludes training program on removing IEDs

The Training and Development Office of the Criminal Investigation Department in the Central Region held a closing ceremony for the training program for the capacity building in the field of removing explosive devices. The program had been implemented within the Read More …

Nepal Army defuses two IEDs in Humla

A team of Nepal Army soldiers defused two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted at the main entrance of the Agriculture Development Office at Simkot Rural Municipality-6 in Humla district on Sunday. A joint team of security personnel from the Armed Read More …