IEDs with EFP warheads, believed to have originated in Iran, were notably dangerous to U.S. forces in Iraq, killing some 196 troops. The PTM-L1 looks like an industrial rather than a craft product ...

Expansion is coming to a South Carolina maker of protective and temperature control foam products. EFP LLC, also known as Engineered Foam Packaging, is spending $31.5 million to add to a ...

Journey to Iraq: Photographer Christian Lindgren traveled to Iraq, an unusual spot for a vacation. While there, he visited the ruins of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, the last Persian capital ...

The U.S. and Iraq on Friday announced an agreement to end the anti-ISIS coalition military presence in Iraq that over the next two years, a move that could lead to a reduction of the 2,500 ...

An EFP isn’t as powerful as is, ... To defeat EFPs in Iraq, the U.S. Army added composite armor to many of its vehicles. The main problem with this additional protection was the weight.

The explosive is distinct-looking, featuring a concave, shallow disc that rests on a smaller bomb. EFP IEDs are just one type of improvised device, but the weapon gained notoriety for its range ...

Once triggered, an EFP turns a copper or steel warhead into a molten projectile that can punch through the main armor of almost any vehicle in the U.S. Military. By Joshua Skovlund Published Sep ...

Iran has considerable experience in EFP design. When U.S. forces in Iraq fielded Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles with reinforced undersides to protect them from buried mines, the Iranians ...

Following the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, NATO established the enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in the Baltic states, designed to protect and reaffirm the security of the alliance’s eastern ...

An EFP is an explosively formed penetrator, ... In Iraq and Afghanistan, approximately 50-67% of American troops were either killed or injured by EFPs. And between 2005 and 2011, ...

Call it what you will - Iraq War 3.0, the war against ISIS, the new Syrian War - it was regularly headline-making news in this country in the second half of last year: the stunning advances of the ...