Talk:Counter-IED equipment

Warlocks, Rhinos, Spruce...

These could all be added to the equipment portion. If I get some time I'll add them but if anyone else beats me to the punch that won't bother me in the slightest. I'm sure I have some pictures that have Rhinos and Warlocks in them. I just have to go through some pictures on another harddrive. —  dainomite   12:38, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Super! There's a ref tag for the Warlock Green / Warlock Red on the IED page. Can you upload the pics to Wikimedia? I think any image published by the US Army is automatically in the public domain. --dbabbitt (talk) 01:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Yep, I sure will upload them to Commons, I have done so in the past . I know for a fact that I have a good close up one of a Warlock that I took when I turned around in a humvee turret. I think I have one of a Rhino too, I'm pretty sure anyway. If I do hopefully it's a decent quality. All my pictures are on another computer that I will have access to next week. —  dainomite   04:44, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Wow! I was not prepared for the extent of your user pages. :-) I have been doing Wikipedia from way back and I've never seen anything like it. --dbabbitt (talk) 16:23, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

@Dbabbitt: Oh haha, yeah. I am kind of a packrat when it comes to all that stuff. Anywho, I found a pretty good picture of a Rhino and posted it here for now. I see no reason to put it on the article until theres a little blurb on Rhinos themselves. All the Warlock pictures I have just show the middle third of the antennae and have a huge yellow timestamp in the middle. >.< I'm not entirely sure how to proceed there, heh. —  dainomite   06:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

@Dainomite: I found some tiny little picture of the Warlock in a PowerPoint that I didn't think was worth the trouble of putting on WikiMedia. That's all I could come up with, sorry. --dbabbitt (talk) 11:42, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

We could put the Rhino on there but, quite honestly, it's a silly piece of equipment as a piece of cardboard on a stick would have had the same exact results as that contraption.VoiceOfreason 16:15, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

References

Duke system description reads like a sales pitch

"Duke V3, manufactured by SRCTec, Inc., is a counter radio-controlled improvised explosive device (RCIED) electronic warfare (CREW) system that was developed to provide U.S. forces critical, life-saving protection against a wide range of threats. It is a field deployable system that was designed to have minimal size, weight and power requirements while providing simple operation and optimal performance in order to provide force protection against radio-controlled IEDs. CREW Duke V3 consists of a primary unit known as the CREW Duke V2 and a secondary unit that features advanced electronic warfare subsystems to counter emerging advanced RCIED technologies. Advanced EW components and techniques are implemented to combat complex threat infrastructures in order to provide a maximum protection radius while minimizing the overall system cost and prime power consumption requirements."

Phrases like "developed to provide U.S. forces critical, life-saving protection against a wide range of threats" and "designed to have minimal size, weight and power requirements while providing simple operation and optimal performance" are not neutral descriptions of the device's functioning, they're military contractor sales copy. Should probably be re-written by someone with knowledge of the device who can approach it from a neutral POV — Vapor314 (talk) 16:04, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

On behalf of the Combined Joint Task Force Paladin South, and ODA 3412 we would like to commend you for your completion of the Counter IED 152.36.219.29 (talk) 20:08, 14 July 2023 (UTC)