Sentences with phrase «roadside bomb»

Many veterans, after suffering injuries from roadside bombs during their tours of duty, carry these fragments in their bodies for life.

The families of British soldiers who died when their Snatch Land Rovers hit roadside bombs in Iraq have won the right to bring a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

Palantir tech has been credited with helping the U.S. military detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan as well as helping create a controversial license plate database for the State of California.

Just as the advancing army and peshmerga forces have had to battle to recapture even small villages on the road to Mosul, facing waves of roadside bombings, sniper fire and suicide car bombs, Asadi suggested the advance on Tal Afar may take time.

Like «The increasing use of terrorism as a tactic in war»: what exactly are you saying there, are you including war casualties (like roadside bombs against convoys) in this statistics too?

7 The United States» military corps of 4,000 robots includes reconnaissance Talon bots that scout for roadside bombs in Iraq and PackBots that poked around for Osama bin Laden's hideout in Afghanistan.

A convoy of special forces advanced toward the village of Tob Zawa, Monday, encountering roadside bombs and trading heavy fire with the militants

Considering the crazy, koranic - driven Muslims in the UK, one predicts an assassination attempt using an Iraqi - perfected roadside bomb.

What about roadside bombs and IEDs??

U.S. and coalition military operating in Afghanistan have experienced about 10,500 roadside bomb incidents so far this year, up from 8,994 in 2009 and 2,677 in 2007, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), reported October 21.

These troops are trained to defuse chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, as well as roadside bombs.

These include unpiloted planes such as the MQ - 9 Reaper and its more famous predecessor, the MQ - 1 Predator, as well as ground vehicles such as the unmanned minitank Talon SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System) and the multipurpose PackBot, which has been widely used to defuse roadside bombs in Iraq and which can also gather intelligence and detect snipers.

Those who have had their friends and comrades blown up or killed in front of them by a random roadside bomb tend to be the worst off.

Putting her life at risk as one of the first women to operate in an active combat zone in Fallujah and Ramadi, Megan completes more than 100 missions with Rex, who sniffs out a massive cache of weapons hidden in a terrorist's home and detects numerous roadside bombs.

When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction.

We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom - made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs.

Special analytics software spearheaded by Professor Thomas Snitch from the University of Maryland has been used by the Department of Defense to stop roadside bombings in Iraq with 93 percent accuracy; and when applied to poaching it is wildly effective.

They talked about how their Iraqi Army allies at the checkpoints came back at night to set roadside bombs.

Most of these injuries have resulted from blasts from roadside bombs and other explosives planted by insurgents.

Six years ago in Afghanistan my sniper team ran a three day mission to observe a tier - 1 IED site (military - speak for a place with a high likelihood of having a roadside bomb emplaced at it).

And as Scheel's colleagues discovered, it may also protect occupants in roadside bombings.

I nearly gave my own life for that — I lost both my legs and a finger when a roadside bomb detonated beneath me — and have known more heroes than I can count who died defending others.

The insurance industry's lobbyists fought it with roadside bombs.

HAWESVILLE, Ky. — When Bill Hughes went to fight in Iraq in 2003, members of his Army unit lined their vehicles with scrap metal, sandbags and bulletproof vests to protect themselves from roadside bombs.

A station wagon packed with Afghan civilians struck a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, triggering an explosion that killed 16 people, 11 of them children, Afghan officials said.

Here's a possible deal: You guys stop the IEDs and roadside bombs and we'll stop drones?

According to the BBC, at least 25 people were killed in a roadside bombing near the Nigerian town of Mubi, an area recently recaptured by the militant group Boko Haram.

He put himself between a family of eight Iraqis and a roadside bomb (IED) and sadly lost his life saving others.......

Obviously the military has tried to keep women out of harms way but roadside bombs and mortars blur the line of what is and is not combat duty.

To the north of Baghdad, in Diyala province, at least 14 people were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near a procession of Shiite pilgrims in Khalis, according to the town's mayor.

In western Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood a roadside bomb detonated near a gathering of pilgrims killing at least 10 and wounding 21 others, an Interior Ministry official said.

The tournament was re-named in honor of US Marine Timothy Brown, who was killed in Iraq in 2006 by a roadside bomb.

The reinforcements will be used to help troops already on the ground counter the improvised explosive devices - roadside bombs - who have caused many of the 153 British fatalities in the country since 2001.

Some families of those who died fighting in the war want questions answered about the use of Snatch Land Rovers, which some commentators suggest are inadequate in protecting service personnel against roadside bombs.

Ulloa was killed on Aug. 9, 2008 when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Sadr City, Iraq.

Rose Gentle, the mother of fusilier Gordon Gentle, killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq's oil port of Basra in 2004, told the BBC she was «totally disgusted» by the allegations.

, describing her efforts, which began in honor of her nephew who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2004.

In 2007, he was chasing insurgents through Anbar province when a roadside bomb exploded, breaking Bledsoe's back and both his feet.

Still, the research offers potential military and security applications, including identifying explosives and roadside bombs, says Ali Passian, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, who was not involved with the study.

Zorpette: Improvised Explosive Devices which is a, kind of, a catch all term that refers to roadside bombs, suicide bombs and car bombs.

Seattle, WA (Scicasts)-- If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet — it needs to be able to sense when objects are slipping out of its grasp.

When both Leavey drives over a roadside bomb with Rex in the car, they have no other option than to fight for their lives together.

Three are navigated by amputees, and one is driven by Tony Harris, who lost a leg to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

Doster, whom he might have loved the most, is being shredded again and again by a roadside bomb on a mission Adam was supposed to have been on, too, and after Doster is declared dead another soldier is saying to him, «None of this shit would have happened if you were there.»

Because of their sensitive noses, they have become the best line of defense against improvised explosive devices (I.E.D.'s), as most of these roadside bombs use chemical explosives, unfound by metal detectors, the previous standard in bomb detection.