Unexploded ordnance
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Unexploded ordnance and unexploded bombs are explosive weapons that did not explode when they were deployed and remain at risk for detonation, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.
British and Belgian officers stand beside an unexploded German shell in Flanders, during World War I.
Dud shell lodged in a tree, Argonne Forest, World War I
A man holding an unexploded mortar shell during a United Nations Mine Action Service demonstration in Mogadishu
An EOD technician removing sand from a mortar shell during a demonstration
Demining
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Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing land mines from an area. In military operations, the object is to rapidly clear a path through a minefield, and this is often done with devices su
South Korean soldiers searching for land mines in Iraq
A US soldier clears a mine using a grappling hook during training.
PROM-1 bounding landmine. Normally it is buried so only the prongs are exposed.
British Army sappers clearing a beach front in Normandy (1944)