Sweden

The Swedish Armed Forces is using the Scanjack 3500 systems as a part of their peacekeeping and peaceenforcing operations.

In the summer of 2007 the Swedish Armed Forces went to Bosnia-Herzegovina with a plutoon for mine clearing operation in cooperation with the Bosnian Armed Forces.

The Swedes using two Scanjack 3500 machines and the Bosnians using manual deminers and dogs.

A uniqe and successfull mission with sharing of knowlegde and experience.

Scanjack 3500 on mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina

In Sweden as in many other countries there are several areas where unexploded grenades might be found in the ground mostly in military exercise fields, shooting grounds and test ranges of ammunition artillery and airdropped ordnance and consequently implicate risk. Based on the availability of skilled and certified management in Scanjack AB UXO – clearance has been one service given to customers in Sweden. As the demand on building grounds increases it has proven to be economic to clear grounds close to cities from existing UXO.

During 2010 Scanjack performed one project in two stages, one survey stage and one clearing stage. The work method included manually carried large loop magnetometer, hand held mine detectors and armored light back-hoe loader. The project as such was the first UXO-clearance – project in Sweden performed in line with IMAS and by a civil commercial company.