Though characterized as assured mobility assets, tasked with enabling freedom of maneuver, route clearance elements often accomplish the exact opposite. While clearance and related C-IED missions...
The versatility of the IED has, in general, resulted in a tendency to equip clearance personnel with as much equipment and technology as is available. In concept, enabling them to respond to any...
For decades, military explosives have generally fallen into two broad categories — bulk explosive components and role-specific systems. Both categories offer unique value and can be employed for a...
As the theory and usage of route clearance units has matured over recent years, the natural evolution has been to provide such units with assets that move personnel further and further from the...
Clear communication is essential to ensure accurate resourcing of appropriate technology to meet user need. Poorly articulated requirements often result in the provisioning inappropriate solutions...
When developing a response to an IED threat it is common to think about each find or strike event in isolation, seeing emplacements as opportunistic or random. Though this might be the case with...
For route clearance technology to advance at a pace capable of responding to evolving IED threats, industry must engage regularly with the user community to truly understand capability gaps....
When comparing operational sustainment requirements with most other standard missions, route clearance missions stand out due to their units’ unique relationship with the threat, general cadence,...
Offered by a number of equipment and service providers worldwide, resources taken onto the battlefield are most often purchased through one of two contract avenues: foreign military sales or...
As industry races to provide equipment and technology able to effectively respond to evolving improvised explosive device (IED) threats, the effort to keep troops trained and informed remains one...