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Report: Troop Deaths by IEDs in Afghanistan Up 60 Percent

The number of American troops in Afghanistan killed by improvised explosive devices rose 60 percent last year to 268, about the same number who perished in the three previous years combined, according to military statistics obtained by The Washington Post. The figures also show that the number of those wounded by the...

Nothing Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs Like a Dog's Nose

In the war on roadside bombs, the Pentagon has spent billions on everything from radio-signal jammers to robots, but there's one tool that's beaten them all -- dogs. Now, instead of trying to come up with a technology that's better than dogs, Navy scientists are focusing on how to make the bomb-sniffing dogs work...

Marines to Send Bomb-Spotting Radar to Afghanistan

(Nov. 16) -- A new handheld, ground-penetrating radar device will be used to combat the roadside bombs that are the top killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a Marine general said today. In Afghanistan, the homemade bombs typically use pressure plates with low levels of metal, making them particularly hard to find, Lt...

Roadside Bombs Less Lethal for Today's Troops

(Oct. 20) -- Roadside bomb attacks are still deadly and all-too-common in Afghanistan, but the Pentagon says fewer troops than ever are succumbing to injuries that would have been life-threatening only a few years ago. That's mostly because of better war-zone medical care and quicker transport offered by medevac...

Companies Work to Save Bomb-Clearing Robots

(Sept. 1) -- When improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, became the weapon of choice in the early days of the Iraq war, the Pentagon rushed electronic jammers to the field to save soldiers' lives by disrupting the wireless signals that often triggered the deadly roadside bombs. The military also began sending robots...

Background on IEDs

An improvised explosive device (IED), also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

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