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Technology A new technique uses electromagnetic pulses to detonate improvised explosive devices from afar, potentially thwarting the roadside bombs that have been the scourge of the… A new technique...
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Technology This is what happens when police, military folks, and scientists get together to play with very expensive robots. It's 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, and I'm watching a robot poke a forest...
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Military Swedish fishing for IEDs Saab has a sea drone…
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Military Doling out Swift justice Bomb squad blew stuff up for training.
View ArticleIED Drone Kills Kurdish Soldiers, French Commandos
Military Though long anticipated, this may be the first attack of its kind An ISIS drone carrying a bomb killed two Kurdish fighters and injured two French commandos in Iraq.
View ArticleWhat We Know About ISIS's Scratch-built Drones
Military Clues from an abandoned drone workshop in Iraq Lessons from a captured ISIS drone workshop.
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Military It takes a state to arm an insurgency Conflict Armament Researchers visit Iraq and documented the ISIS factories and workshops they found.
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