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Last month, JPEO-CBRND hosted CBRN defense experts from across the U.S. Department of Defense and UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Science, Technology, and Acquisition Forum (C-STAF). This annual bilateral meeting fosters collaboration Read More …
A specialist Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) troop has moved into its new home at Gamecock Barracks, Nuneaton. The newly-named Nuneaton EOD Troop – formerly Nottingham EOD Troop and part of 721 EOD Squadron Royal Logistic Corps – relocated in Read More …
Video showed the moment a mortar shell was destroyed in a controlled explosion on a beach. Gorleston Coastguard said it was called to help bomb disposal experts safely neutralise the device just north of Lowestoft on the Suffolk-Norfolk border on Read More …
A house belonging to a self-styled loyalist pastor has been targeted in an overnight petrol bomb attack. The property, in the Forthriver Road area of Glencairn. belongs to Clifford Peeples, who was jailed for possession of explosives with intent to Read More …
An explosion was carried out after a shell was found in a city centre canal, the Manchester Evening News understands. Police shut off an area near a major tram stop with the bomb squad called to the scene last night Read More …
A man has been jailed for throwing acid and making explosives in a “home laboratory” inside his flat in Derbyshire over the course of 15 years. Police cordoned off streets and evacuated 35 homes after finding explosive materials in a Read More …
An explosive device and a number of other items have been seized by police in south Armagh. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said officers recovered and made safe an improvised explosive device, and removed a number of items Read More …
It is a date seared into the collective memories of all over a certain age. That morning on July 7, 2005, just before 9am, suicide bombers detonated devices on three Tube trains in central London. An hour later, a fourth Read More …
Four people have appeared in court over the break-in at RAF Brize Norton after £7million of damage was inflicted. The group Palestine Action have claimed the damage on two Voyager aircraft was carried out by them. Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Jony Read More …
A Co Fermanagh man charged with possessing an armour-plating explosive device has been granted bail at the High Court. A judge ruled there were “exceptional circumstances’’ to permit Emmett Maguire to return home to his family to help his wife Read More …
Royal Navy divers have helped dispose of a “high-explosive projectile” lurking in local waters. The “historic” live ordnance was initially spotted by a civilian diver in the sea at Bouley Bay. A Royal Navy bomb disposal team arrived in Jersey Read More …
Emergency services remain at the scene of a home in St Helens after multiple unexploded devices were discovered inside the property, prompting an evacuation and an overnight cordon. Officers were initially called to the address on Chadwick Road on Monday Read More …
The Kiwis joined personnel from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Papua New Guinea, the United States and United Kingdom for Operation Render Safe, an operation that has been targeting explosive remnants of war (ERW) left throughout the Pacific after the Second Read More …
A controlled explosion has been carried out on an “unidentified liquid” found in a house in Eastbourne. Residents from around 160 properties were safely evacuated from the area and an 85m cordon was put in place as a precaution. Sussex Read More …
A man accused of carrying out a pipe bomb attack on the Belfast Islamic Centre may require a psychiatric assessment, a court has heard. Jonathan Robert Bell, 34, was arrested after a viable explosive device was thrown through a window Read More …
A police bomb squad is urgently searching for a man who wandered off with five suspected hand grenades after seven in total were found in Hopwood. Two of the hand grenades were safely detonated by the bomb squad after they Read More …
Pro-Palestinian activists broke into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday, damaging and spraying red paint over two planes used for refuelling and transport. Palestine Action said two members had entered the Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire, Read More …
Police investigating a fire that damaged multiple vehicles discovered a viable explosive device in follow up searches. The fire at the business premises near Newry was started deliberately, police said. Fire crews and police were first alerted to the fire Read More …
Aid flows to Ukraine shifted significantly in March and April 2025. While the United States allocated no new aid during this period, European countries increased their support. As a result, Europe has, for the first time since June 2022, surpassed Read More …
Two divers who dealt with a huge World War Two bomb unearthed in a Plymouth garden have been honoured with bravery awards by King Charles III. Petty Officer (PO) Craig Maddock and PO Paul Cartwright from Plymouth-based Bravo Diving Unit Read More …