Black Dog F35009 EOD Team in Iraq

United States Armed Forces ) are currently the most powerful and strongest troops in the world, with an active staff of approximately 1.36 million people and a budget of $ 686 billion in 2018. One of their most important components is the ground army, i.e. the United States Army, in which 476,000 soldiers in the line served in 2017. In the course of the conflict in Afghanistan (since 2001) and in Iraq (since 2003), the US Army began to play a significant role in carrying out activities related to mine clearance, including EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) activities. First of all, the sappers themselves began to be equipped with new uniforms, or rather safety suits, increasing the chances of surviving the explosion of a disarmed cargo. In addition, remotely controlled sapper robots began to be used on a larger scale, the loss of which is more acceptable than the loss of a human being. It is worth adding that the experiences related to mines and the so-called fugas from Afghanistan and Iraq led, among other things, to the redesign of many chassis of the US Army vehicles so that they were susceptible to detonation of an explosive charge.