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What is the most effective way to avoid IEDs and land mines?

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That is the most effective way to avoid IED’s and mines. “01 Call Missed”. A mobile phone rigged to a detonator makes for a simple and deadly long range remote control. read more

Though some types of improvised explosive devices ("IEDs") are mistakenly classified as land mines, the term land mine is typically reserved for manufactured devices designed to be used by recognized military services, whereas IED is used for makeshift "devices placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating explosive material, destructive, lethal, noxious, incendiary, pyrotechnic materials or chemicals designed to destroy, disfigure, distract or harass. read more

A land mine is an explosive device which is concealed either under or on the ground in order to destroy or disable enemy vehicles and/or combatants. Even multiple decades after wars such as the Vietnamese war, (Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians) in exploded land mines continue to kill civilians. read more

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