IED deaths in Afghanistan / iCasualties.orgHunting Down IEDs: The `Red Dot' Express -- Time
After years of climbing, it looks like combat deaths due to roadside bombs in Afghanistan are on the decline. That's good news, because such improvised explosive devices -- IEDs -- have been the biggest killer of U.S. troops. IEDs are a continual game of cat-and-mouse. When pressure-sensitive IEDs kept killing too many innocent civilians, the Taliban shifted to detonating them with electronic signals. That served two purposes: it let the triggerman allow civilian vehicles to pass safely, and it also let him time the explosion so the increasingly-sophisticated shaped-charged IEDs would do the most damage to the target vehicle.
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Update: U.S. "Red Dot" spy program hunts bombs in war zones -- Reuters
My Comment: The tech and science behind this program must be incredibly awesome in order for it to be that precise and focused on locating IEDs.
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