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In this clip Rod, a high-threat IED disposal operator, and his team deal with a device that has been discovered by some of the searchers. From a new BBC documentary telling the story of the counter-IED team based in Helmand, includes headcam footage filmed by both the "searchers", who find the devices, and by the bomb disposal operators themselves.

Here we go again with the information you all love to hear about.This week, Iraqi and Coalition forces found enough material to produce approximately 84 IEDs (improvised explosive devices/roadside bombs).This is a VERY conservative figure as you’ll read in just ONE cache 73 mortar rounds were found. One could feasibly create 73 IEDs just off of that cache, but I took into account the rate by which they misfire and the fact that some of them would be combined into one IED with perhaps two mortar rounds.My professional opinion is that at least 84 IEDs in total would have been...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2006 – A modified version of an Army robot that's used to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq now packs a punch of its own. The 3-foot-tall robot, known by the acronym SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System), can be seen at the Washington Auto Show at the Washington Convention Center here. The show started today and runs through Jan. 29. The robot is part of an Army exhibit. The remote-controlled machine at the auto show is fitted with an M-249 machine gun and can travel up to 5 mph on its two tank-like tracks,...

A 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert has been killed in a roadside ambush in northern Iraq. Father-of-three Ian Rimell, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, died, and his local bodyguard was critically injured, when they were attacked on Thursday afternoon as they drove their vehicle along a main road to Mosul. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a British national was killed on September 4 while working in northern Iraq. "We stand ready to offer any appropriate consular assistance to family or next of kin."