Comments on: Gates Creates New Counter IED Group

By: Ryan Schrader

Ryan Schrader — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:36:17 +0000

Drak– Ryan Schrader here– I just checked this site after all this time and found your post. Do you have sources I can contact? Email me at AAASTAMPING@aol.com as soon as possible — Thanks

By: drak

drak — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:55:28 +0000

What did you build that saved the life of your son? The Husky is a very safe vehicle However, if you have a good way of making it safer, there are people that will listen to your idea. Gates is more of a ‘big picture’ person. You probably want to get in touch with the Army, or some contractors.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:38:48 +0000

Is it really you? I have developed a C-IED system, and would be very interested in speaking to some US servicemen regarding it, and the problems they are facing. Would appreciate it if you could respond. Regards

By: pete

pete — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:36:01 +0000

Hi, thanks for the comments regarding the Aussies/New Zealanders.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Yeah, I tried getting in contact with JIEDDO as well. I have all but given up. Its nigh on impossible. Just try cklicking on any of thier links, they always fail

By: Ryan Schrader

Ryan Schrader — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:02:48 +0000

How can I get in touch with Gates!
In the spring of this year. 2009, I built and shipped 2 units to Khoust, Afghanistan, to my son that was stationed there. He installed one on a Husky and first trip out it detonated a tripwire IED, saving the life of the driver and serious damage to the Husky, it was estimated to be a 60 pound IED by the men in the convoy (I have a video interview with 3 of the men, including the Husky driver) stating these facts. I sent a proposal into JIEDDO on Oct. 20,2009, it is still sitting there 2 months later. This item WORKS and it costs $2,000 to save lives and JIEDDO is dragging their feet. I only hope someone can tell me how to contact Gates directly so we can start saving our men and women’s lives. This is maddening.

By: ross

ross — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0000

and yet they are not even looking at the new technologies that are offered. IIEDDO puts out RFP’s and does not even response with a determination about what the industry submitted. Foe example the BAA that the industry responded to in August has fallen on deaf ears. we have offered technologies that detect explosives from a distance, but we can not get any one to listed to us!

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:50 +0000

Many of you ‘old guy’s’ came away with the wrong lessons after Vietnam and laid the blame on the ARVN(corruption was present but not universal) there were ‘the few’ who remained in theater post 69–70 and witnessed the dismantling of the VC only to be cut off by a war weary home-front and a US military that was facing implosion. The service of all is respected I assure you and currently all US assets are being employed in Afghanistan as we speak while headway is being made whether the general media reports it or not. Also I find Confucius more enlightening than Sun Tzu.

By: Indianmedicine

Indianmedicine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:32 +0000

I was a “Tunnel Rat” in I Corp, 23rd In.Div. 11Th LIB.
It appears that the AFGN-IRAQ Theater is experiencing “Shaped Charge IED”.( ammonium nitrate) saturation.
It is more stable, meaning No premature detonations for the most part, and cheaper materials.
I’m surprised that petrol FuGas isn’t also used.
The comments re: UW/LIC Warfare are appropriate; if not we will fail just as the USSR did with mass field echelons of Cbt. Maneuver Units. (Where are the ODA’s SOCOM ?)
Remember WWII-Urban Warfare? Polish Ghettos, French Cities? Resistance? US Indian Wars?
For 400 years The Moors had an advanced Culture Society.
If a “Good Muslim” had quality of life then, Why can’t a “Good Muslim” have quality of life now?
Something for them to ask their clerics!
PSYOPS, were are you when we need you? Win The Hearts and Minds and it will get easier!
USMC did in their AO, had it better then others.
CMD has already implemented the old “Chu Hoi” program in “buying loyalty”.
Do a “Kit Carson” program while your at it!
Thank you Australia/New Zeland for being there-You had some of the best Rat’s in RVN!
Guess us “Old Guy’s” don’t know what we are talking about. _Sun Tzu 5Th Column._

By: johnevan

johnevan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:54:56 +0000

Jim:

I agree $20 billion and mediore results is way too much money for this project. I have seen IED’s and Car bombs go off, and spent a lot of time discussing this with my electrical engineer. Jamming signals was only a good solution for remote detonations, and Al Quaeda adapts and changes tactics quickly. Warlock also has the bad side effect of jamming other communications.

We think what is required is development of smart and fast ground penetrating radar to sweep roads and fields from the air. The diffculty of course is discerning rocks, pipes, and buried junk from the real thing. The radar itself is proven. The software can be adapted and updated quickly as the threat evolves. Also as backup for the GPR infared sweeps are required to find things that stick out (recently disturbed soil or other hiding methods).

Imagine one air sweep of the road out in front of the convoy.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:19:48 +0000

Trying to defeat low tech weapons with 20 billion dollars worth of PowerPoint slides usually does not work. Persistent surveillance can help, people on the ground can help, but loyalty of the people is what will solve the IED problem. Getting the help of the locals requires that we go into these areas and stay in the area, not cutting and running after we get a black eye. Loyalty is earned.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:03:42 +0000

I am a New Zealander. We have fought in every major conflict in the world alongside the US including WW1&II, Korea, Vietnam and both Iraqi wars, and are fighting in Afghanistan now. Your losses bother us. As such several ideas were developed to counter IED, VIED and EFPs.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:59:19 +0000

hmmm.…actually it did work what didn’t work was when an army(ARVN) equipped and trained to fight a counter insurgency capaign(which was defeated) was faced with repelling an invading heavy conventional force(NVA Motor Rifle) of course US airpower made the difference in ’72 but a certain promise was broken and thus the fall in 1975. Hopefully we can all concentrate on the current fight and not rehash what might have happened 35 years ago.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:22:48 +0000

Hmmmm.… I rember that tatic was tried in a place called Vienam. I think it didn’t work.

By: elgatoso

elgatoso — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:25:41 +0000

I read a post a couple years ago about a all helicopter army for Mike Burleson from New Wars.He said that one of the current problems of Industrial Age Warfare is a greatly extended supply chain and the only weapon currently in the US arsenal, which could perform all the duties of the combined arms, while conducting its own resupply, is the helicopter and tiltrotor.He said that one weapon the chopper is invulnerable to is the IED, which has proven so troublesome to our soldiers in recent years. It can also use its unmatched mobility to bypass potential SAM sights offloading its troops into armored cars to ferry them into battle.Me think that the tendency for the future is the replacement of motorized troops for airborne troops and light fighters(like Tucano) and CAS in the roll of tanks and artillery.Of course in terrains were the tank is not viable like Astan

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:04 +0000

If the Army still had C-27s, I bet they could defeat an IED !

By: roland

roland — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:38:42 +0000

Our troops should borrow the IED the Afghan troops already have and test it to our anti IED vehicles, if it works before assigning it to the battlefield.

By: Trophy

Trophy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:22:22 +0000

IED payloads can vary a lot, and there’s already enough data on the various forms of IED’s that we can simply replicate ourselves.

By: Sam Rodr

Sam Rodr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:57:56 +0000

Hey, hey…that’s me on the Pic…on the Korengal Valley road.

Chief Rod

By: jim

jim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:45:17 +0000

I would think it would be much easier to counter IEDs in Afghanistan, especially in the rural areas. With such a low population density it should be easy to have persistent staring UAVs monitor the area and have change analysis software spot new implanted IEDs. Presumably there just aren’t enough UAV orbits to keep watch on the areas that need watching. As Iraq winds down the UAV assets will shift to A-stan and help a lot.

Hopefully some of the DARPA sensor projects start paying off. The buried artillery shells obviously have metal that can be detected — while these fertilizer bomb IEDs must be giving off tons of chemical trails that could be detected by laser chemical analysis. I know these are still lab-based projects, but it seems a solvable problem. Of course, they probably said that 5 years ago.

We need more UAVs, more aerostats, more supercomputer datamining change analysis software, and better sensors.