Trevor Ball & N.R. Jenzen-Jones Overview Explosive munitions often leave distinctive physical traces that can provide valuable evidence about the circumstances of an attack. Among the most informative of these traces are craters, which not only preserve evidence of the detonation itself, but may also provide important clues as to a munition’s design, function, fuzing,
Kenton Fulmer The suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) is broadly considered to have served as the makeshift ‘precision guided munition’ (PGM) of Islamist extremists for the last decade, with their frequent and effective use in the tactical operations of the Islamic State (IS) serving to highlight the phenomenon in the media. Due to the decisive
