DefenceTalkDefence and security company Saab presented its remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Sea Wasp, at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland. Sea Wasp, which relocates, identifies and neutralizes underwater improvised explosive devices (IEDs), is designed to combat below-the-surface terrorism. To produce the Sea Wasp, Saab leveraged technology from its Saab Seaeye line of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saab-develops-underwater-anti-ied-robot-67490/

DefenceTalkA Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in Afghanistan. Sandia has decided not to patent or […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sandia-offers-non-explosive-fertilizer-formula-47581/