EUROPEAN DEFENCE AGENCY: C-IED EXERCISE BISON COUNTER 21

650 European military personnel compared techniques and methodologies during a C-IED exercise supported by the European Defence Agency

05/11/2021

Source: Defence Staff

Author: Public Information and Communication Office

650 European military personnel compared techniques and methodologies during a C-IED exercise supported by the European Defence Agency SThe Bison Counter 21 exercise has concludedC-IED(Countering Improvised Explosive Devices) multinational supported by’Exploratory Data Analysis(European Defence Agency), hosted this year by the Italian Armed Forces in Sardinia, within the training areas of Capo Teulada, Perdasdefogu, the port of Cagliari, and the Decimomannu air base. The training event represented a unique opportunity to test, practice and improve interoperability between Armed Forces belonging to different nations, in the land, maritime and air domains. The Task Organisation, built on an Italian core team, supplemented by multinational components, enabled the implementation of the entire C-IED operational cycle, with the aim of improving interoperability between European and allied C-IED capabilities in military and counter-terrorism operations (detection and neutralisation of devices to maintain the freedom of movement of deployed forces, and the exploitation of recovered materials whose analysis and evaluation allows information to be gathered on the IED network).