Image 5. The shaped charge has successfully penetrated the sand and achieved a high order explosion of the buried main charge
When an IED is buried the exact location of the main charge may not be known. In this instance, in order to increase the probability that this technique is successful, multiple shaped charges may be grouped together in an ‘array’.
Image 6. ROV remotely placing a shaped charge array to target a buried IED
Image 7. Cross-section showing how the array has been placed to target the buried main charge
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