A deployable military facility to help counter improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is celebrating 10 years of operations in the Netherlands. First conceived during multinational land operations in Afghanistan, the Joint Deployable Exploitation and Analysis Laboratory (JDEAL) has trained more than 900 personnel from 14 European Union Member States. Now, the facility and its expertise could potentially be used in a much broader context, including Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), in Ukraine or for any potential threat in Europe.
JDEAL, which has been managed by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and lead nation the Netherlands, also brings together Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden – as well as Norway. The United States, the United Kingdom, and the NATO Counter-IED Centre of Excellence have also sent observers over the project’s lifetime. JDEAL began operating in mid-2014.
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