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Marines Look for New Ways to Spot Wood and Fertilizer Bombs

Marines Look for New Ways to Spot Wood and Fertilizer Bombs

November 9th, 2012

From Wired:

"Finding a roadside bomb was never easy, even back when insurgents made their improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from old artillery shells and other metal parts. But now that militant bomb-makers favor wood and fertilizer as the main components for their IEDs, detection has become a complete nightmare.

That’s why the U.S. Marine Corps wants to build an entirely new kind of bomb detector, one that doesn’t rely on spotting the metal in the IED."

Read more here.

Lastly, hope you can join us in the upcoming TFI-FIRT Fertilizer Outlook and Technology Conference. Lt. General Michael D. Barbero, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), will be giving a talk on Nitrogen Fertilizer Security. The conference theme is "Adapting to Disruptive Forces in Crop Nutrition.  Get the full list of topics and speakers here.