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Share Minister of Interior Sar Kheng visits the site of a warship that was sunk in the Mekong River at Meanchey commune’s Veal village in Kampong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district during Cambodia’s civil war in the 1970s. SAR KHENG VIA FACEBOOK Soldier’s remains found in 1970s-era shipwreck Mon, 15 February 2021 An inter-ministerial team of underwater ordnance recovery specialists recently found a soldier’s remains at the site of the warship sunken in the Mekong River in Meanchey commune’s Veal village in Kampong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district during Cambodia’s civi...

Draganfly Advances Field Testing of EagleEye™ Land Mine Detection Solution Written by AZoRoboticsFeb 12 2021 Draganfly Inc., an award-winning, industry-leading developer of drone solutions and systems, recently reported that it has achieved progress in the field testing of the EagleEye™ land mine detection solution in collaboration with Windfall Geotek. Windfall Geotek advance testing of drone-based AI solution for landmine detection. Image Credit: Draganfly Inc. Windfall Geotek, a mining services company, is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated knowledge...

Share Members of the UXO Clearance Unit remove ordnance from the sunken wreck of a warship in Kampong Cham province. Photo supplied UXO-loaded warship used by Lon Nol Thu, 28 January 2021 Military historians and naval experts have determined that a warship found sunken in the river near Meanchey commune’s Veal village of Kampong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district had been used by soldiers of Marshal Lon Nol during the civil war. Mey Sophea, commander of the UXO Clearance Unit of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Force and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance (NPMEC-ERW), told The Pos...

Specialists from the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces, Mines and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance (NPMEC), in cooperation with the army’s Special Forces Command (SFC), have conducted underwater operations to extract munitions from warships which sank in Kampong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district during the 1970-1975 civil war. A total of 912 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been found. In a meeting to update progress on January 14, Neang Phat – permanent secretary of state at the Ministry of National Defence and chief of operations in the collection of UXO – said ...