Cleaning trash off a training range may sound like a dull task—but not if the trash is highly explosive. Airmen with the 775th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight deal with such trash on a regular basis at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), an ...
Over the past 20 years, military explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians have become very good at using high-tech tools like robots, communications jammers, smartphones, and next-generation bomb suits to disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded urban environments. When it comes to a possible conflict ...
The Air Force has received its first new large-size explosive ordnance disposal robots, the latest in a series of upgrades to the service’s EOD equipment. Four of the new T7 robotic systems were formally handed over to the Air Force, contractor L3Harris stated in a Dec. ...
The Air Force is almost finished distributing nearly 1,500 new rifles to security forces, pararescuemen, Guardian Angels, and explosive ordnance disposal Airmen. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is in the final phase of delivering the Squad Designated Marksmanship Rifle after procuring approximately 1,464 ...