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□イラクのレジスタンスがさらに強力なIED(路上爆弾)を開発
・レジスタンスが開発したこの新型のIEDはM1A2エイブラムズやブラッドレイにも
対抗できるだけの破壊力を持っているという。
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/53621
General: Insurgents upgrading explosives used in attacks
By: WT.com on: 15.06.2005 [15:49 ] (1199 reads
Officials said Sunni insurgents in Iraq have been developing increasingly powerful improvised explosive devices, the leading cause of U.S. military casualties in that Arab country. They said insurgents have produced shaped-charge explosives that could penetrate the U.S. Army M1A2 main battle tank and Bradley fighting vehicle.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, director of the U.S. Army IED Defeat Task Force, told the Washington-based Lexington Institute that Iraqi insurgents have sought to compensate for the up-armoring of U.S. combat vehicles. Votel said Sunni insurgents have quickly learned the vulnerable points of even the most heavily-armored of U.S. combat vehicles.
Eleven U.S. soldiers were killed in IED attacks from June 9 to 11, Middle East Newsline reported. In one attack, five Marines were killed when their vehicle struck an IED during combat operations near Haqlaniyah in western Iraq.
The IED Defeat Task Force has examined IED strikes to determine the technology and methods used by insurgents. The force has also sought to discern the signature of bomb-makers for military intelligence.
In an address on June 8, Votel ruled out the use of technology to defeat IEDs in Iraq. The general asserted that greater efforts would be required to track and capture IED cells, particularly suicide bombers.
Votel said suicide bombers detonate two-thirds of car bombs in Iraq. He said the army doesn't understand how suicide bombers are recruited.
Officials said the army appears to have reached a stalemate in the war against IEDs, 40 percent of which have been neutralized by U.S. forces. They said Iraqi insurgents increased their IED strikes and developed more advanced bombs.
The IED Defeat Task Force has determined that IED networks comprised numerous cells with separate command, production, transportation and emplacement elements. The insurgents have also been conducting surveillance on U.S. combat units to facilitate plans for IED strikes.
The U.S. military has introduced new measures and platforms to battle IEDs. The military has deployed 31 new 5-ton armored gun trucks to protect convoys against IED attacks in Iraq.
In May 2005, Steven DeTeresa, an engineer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., told the House Armed Services Committee that the gun truck contains armor and multi-weapons capacity.
DeTeresa said the truck's two layers of steel armor augmented by ballistic fiberglass would enable the crew to survive an IED explosion.
In April 2005, the U.S. Marine Corps launched a facility outside Baghdad to produce Humvees equipped with advanced armor. The facility contains contractors from such companies as Honeywell, KBR and Oshkosh.
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