Land Warfare
Eurosatory 2010: Coalition forces meet IED threat
US special operations forces and other coalition troops are discovering innovative new methods of countering improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as employed by enemy combatants in Afghanistan, Land Warfare International has been informed.
Defence sources have told LWI that systems including Chemring Defence’s Heavy Portable Explosive Minefield Breaching System (HEPMBS), which ...
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