IEDs awareness

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IEDs Awareness IEDs are becoming a weapon of choice in some areas of operation. It’s paramount the Executive Protection Unit develops tactics, techniques and procedures to on how to deal with this threat. This means IED recognition and avoidance. The following presentation displays some types of IEDs and the materials usually utilized to fabricate them.

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IEDs Awareness

IEDs are becoming a weapon of choice in some areas of operation. It’s paramount the Executive Protection Unit develops tactics, techniques and procedures to on how to deal with this threat. This means IED recognition and avoidance.

The following presentation displays some types of IEDs and the materials usually utilized to fabricate them.

Pipe Bomb

The Pipe Bomb is filled with high explosive. The pipe is ripped into many small, high- speed fragments at time of detonation.

Pipe Bombs are designed to kill. They are more lethal than hand grenades and their effects are totally unpredictable.

Basic IED 1

The ordinary everyday vinyl briefcase seems so innocent on the outside, but deadly enough to kill hundreds on the inside.

Materials utilized to fabricate a basic IED:

Baby Ben alarm clocks

Steel plate

D-cell batteries

Duct tape

Electrical tape

Twisted iron wire

Flooring nails

Dynamite

Vinyl briefcase

Basic IED 2

The common backpack has an innocent exterior, but with highly deadly consequences.

Utilized materials:

Baby Ben alarm clocks

Duct tape

Electrical tape

Steel plates

Dynamite

Lantern batteries

Wire nails

Backpack

Basic IED 3

The expensive leather executive briefcase, familiar in all boardrooms, shows no outward signs of dangerousness until is too late.

Materials:

Electrical Tape

Duct tape

Baby Ben alarm clocks

Steel plates

Blasting caps

Lantern batteries

SEMTEX plastic explosives

Leather briefcase