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New Research Center Aims To Counter Threat Of IEDs

April 30 2010

Germany

The German military has just inaugurated a new research center designed to improve protection against improvised explosive devices (IEDs), reports the Deutsche Welle.

The center, opened this week at the Boeselager German army base in Grafschaft in Western Germany, is intended to provide better technical information on IEDs and develop new anti-IED strategies for troops in Afghanistan.

German troops in Afghanistan will also be able to contact the specialists at the center for...

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