Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide

Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide delivers the latest operational guidance and reference data on mines, explosive ordnance and IEDs deployed globally, providing essential information to military and security organizations to support the development and implementation of safe and effective explosives recognition, disarming and disposal procedures and techniques.

Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide will help you to:

• Identify mines and other unexploded ordnance
• Understand the operation of current military mine defense and explosive ordnance capabilities
• Accurately model current and emerging land-based threat scenarios
• Develop improved explosives handling training materials
• Develop and maintain mine and explosives recognition, neutralization and disposal techniques

Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide is available in three formats:

• Online
• Full-color yearbook
• Offline
  • Intraspex (CD-ROM)
  • IHS Jane's Data Services (XML data)

The online format of Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide provides you with additional benefits not available within the guidebook, including:

• Regular updates
• Powerful search capabilities
• Additional photographs and diagrams
• Comprehensive archive

Colin King
Colin King graduated from Sandhurst in 1981 and served for 14 years in the British Army. Most of his career was in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), with operational service including the Falklands, the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. He also led the first British Army team to train Afghan deminers during the UN Operation Salam. In addition to field work, he was an instructor at the British EOD school and spent six years working as the sole EOD analyst on foreign munitions for the Ministry of Defence. He left the army after serving as a Squadron Commander with the Gurkhas in Hong Kong, and founded a consultancy company specializing in the technical aspects of EOD. He now edits Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide (formerly Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance and Jane's Explosive Ordnance Disposal).

Operational work, training and national program assessments have led to experience in a wide range of countries, including Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Moldova, Oman, Rwanda and Yemen. He was a technical advisor to the Oslo Process that led to the Convention on Cluster munitions, and is currently engaged on a number of programs related to the disposal of landmines and cluster munitions.

Containing profiles of more than 550 types of mine and explosive ordnance device in production and in use around the world, Jane's Mines & EOD Operational Guide provides essential operational information, as well as identification tables, photographs and diagrams.

• Descriptions, specification and operational characteristics, including ammunition markings
• Details and analysis of mines, booby traps and fuses
• Neutralization and disarming procedures
• Mines in operation around the world
• Photographs and sectional diagrams