IED Clearance Good Practice Guide

The following series of images illustrates the use of a command pull IED with subsurface main charge.

ׁ WARNING. The scenario is set in the context of the IED having recently been emplaced. MA organisations would be responding to this type of IED only if it was abandoned after the conflict.

Command pull link (electrical wire)

Vulnerable point

Image 9. Showing a vulnerable point where rubble has fallen over a channelled route and a command pull IED has been emplaced

Firing point

Command pull link (string)

Electrical wire

Buried main charge

Image 10. Showing the firing point of the command pull IED and the pull links (red string / orange electrical wire) leading to the main charge below ground

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