Counter-IED Report Autumn 2014 Extract edition

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Counter-IED Report Autumn 2014

RESHAPING JOINT MILITARY DOCTRINE FOR THE AGE OF IEDs FINIS CORONAT OPUS… OR THE USE OF IEDs BY STATES DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF C-IED WITHIN THE BUNDESWEHR FRAGMENT PROTECTIVE CLOTHING – A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LIGHTWEIGHT BALLISTIC BODY PROTECTION MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH THE HISTORY OF THE BOMB DISPOSAL VEHICLE CAN HOME MADE EXPLOSIVES BE MADE IN MY MOMS KITCHEN? IEDs – WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS – INDIA

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

IFC ICOR TECHNOLOGY 6 FOREWORD 7 SCANNA MSC LTD 8 ICM INDUSTRIAL CONTROL MACHINES S.A. 9 RESHAPING JOINT MILITARY DOCTRINE FOR THE AGE OF IEDs

By Jon-Paul deLange

14 DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF C-IED WITHIN THE BUNDESWEHR

By Maj Michael Feyen, C-IED Centre Bundeswehr

Joint Forces Operations Command (BwJFOCOM)

20 FRAGMENT PROTECTIVE CLOTHING – A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LIGHTWEIGHT BALLISTIC BODY PROTECTION

By Katrin S. Freier, Product & Sales Manager – Material Science Body Amour

24 NATO EOD DEMONSTRATIONS AND TRIALS 2014 25 MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

By Lieutenant Colonel Florin Obreja, Military Engineering Centre of Excellence (MILENG)

32 EOD & C-IED 2014 33 THE HISTORY OF THE BOMB DISPOSAL VEHICLE

By Fred Powada, Operations Manager, Thistle Polymer Composites

37 THISTLE POLYMER COMPOSITES 4

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38 CAN HOME MADE EXPLOSIVES BE MADE IN MY MOMS KITCHEN? AN EDA ‘COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH’ TO THE GROWING THREAT

By Capt Neil Kelly, the Officer in Charge of an Ordnance Corps unit, Defence Forces Training Centre (DFTC) at the Curragh Camp Co. Kildare Ireland

40 THE INTEGRATED C-IED TRANSIT RESPONSE TEAM

By Michael Digby, Detective/Bomb Technician, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

45 FINIS CORONAT OPUS… OR THE USE OF IEDs BY STATES

By Lieutenant Colonel Jose M Rufas, Allied Headquarters Joint Force Command Brunssum

48 COUNTER PROLIFERATION STRATEGY – WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?

By Robert Shaw, Director, Optimal Risk EOD Services

51 IEDs – WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS – INDIA

By Colonel (Retd.) H R Naidu Gade, Chief Consultant, CBRNe Secure India

56 FUTURE FORCES EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE 2014 57 IED EVENTS IN UKRAINE: METRICS AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

By Lieutenant Colonel Jose M Rufas, Allied Headquarters Joint Force Command Brunssum

60 COUNTERING TERRORISM & THE TREAT OF IEDs IN AFRICA 2014 61 ENFORCEMENT OF STRATEGIC TRADE CONTROLS – AN INDIAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

By Prashant Yajnik, Consultant, Export Controls, Chemicals Management and Compliance

67 THE NON-CONVENTIONAL THREAT (NCT) UPCOMING EVENTS counteriedreport.com

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FOREWORD

FOREWORD

By Rob Hyde-Bales, Consulting Editor, Counter-IED Report.

Rob Hyde-Bales biography During his career in the UK Royal Engineers, Rob Hyde-Bales was responsible for landmine clearance in Libya and, more latterly, Afghanistan in the running of the first United Nations humanitarian landmine clearance training programme – Operation Salam. The programme trained Afghan male refugees in landmine clearance techniques, and Afghan women and children in mine awareness and avoidance training. More recently he set up the Caribbean Search Centre in Kingston, Jamaica. The Centre is designed to train security forces across the Caribbean in modern search techniques. After retiring from the army he joined Cranfield University at Shrivenham, near Oxford, and undertook a research project on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence that examined ways to improve the sharing of IED threat information between the military and civilian organisations in hazardous areas.

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2014 has seen continuation of political fragmentation and unfettered violence in both Iraq and Libya. The situations in these countries continue to raise serious questions about the long term effectiveness and legacy of previous Western interventions – the 2003 Iraq War and the 2011 NATO bombing campaign against Libya.

The future of Iraq as a unified state is highly questionable and it seems increasingly unlikely that this currently fragmented nation will ever return to its 2003 borders. Large parts of the country are now controlled by Islamic State militants and in August the US commenced air strikes against the militants’ positions.

Similarly the current situation in Libya is increasingly parlous from the political and security perspectives. In 2012 the US Ambassador to Libya was murdered in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11. Since then the country has continued to fragment against the back drop of an ever worsening security environment. In August Western diplomatic missions were evacuated from Tripoli.

This year will see the end of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Critical questions remain over the current and future security situation. In early August a serving US general was murdered by a rogue Afghan soldier at a military installation in Kabul. Prior to that in July this year the Taliban attacked and destroyed some 200 oil tankers near Kabul that were destined for ISAF. One factor common in the conflicts in these three nations is the continuing omnipresence of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) where they extract very high casualty rates, particularly in the civilian populations.

This Autumn 2014 edition contains an excellent international selection of articles that address elements of Counter-IED in terms of operations, doctrine, training and equipment around the globe.

Colonel (Retired) HR Naidu Gade of CBRNe Secure India highlights the fact that in 2013 India had the fourth highest number of recorded IED incidents in the world. A common trait among insurgents and terrorists in the country is their recurring usage of IEDs. He points out the critical requirement for a holistic and comprehensive approach by national and state governments to C-IED operations in India.

Jon-Paul de Lange of the US based Strategic Support Group emphasises the need to reshape joint military doctrine in the age of IEDs. In the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan the US military suffered more than 3,100 fatalities and 33,000 wounded including 1,800 who lost limbs. We must institutionalise the hard-earned C-IED lessons from these wars for any future conflicts. Too often during wars lessons are identified rather than learned.

Katrin Freier of Blücher GmbH in Germany describes a holistic approach to lightweight ballistic body protection. The article outlines their progress in producing effective, modern and comfortable fragmentation protective clothing against the blast effects of IEDs. Some currently available Personal Protective Equipment does not afford effective lower body protection and is extremely uncomfortable in the high temperatures of Afghanistan and Iraq, therefore these initiatives are most welcome.

Mike Digby of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provides an interesting insight into the critical work of the Integrated C-IED Transit Response Team in this city. He highlights the essential nature of these activities in countering any number of threats to the LA transportation systems. It is good to read about the close collaboration between his department and their UK counterparts in this very important work.

These and other excellent articles constitute the Autumn Edition of the Counter-IED Report. ■

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