Safety & Security Service AS and Wescom Defence completed this summer a Life Extension upgrade of Norwegian Armed Forces' Portable Obstacle and Minefield Breaching Systems (POMBS). The agreement was signed in 2022, and the work completed early this summer.

The upgrade ensures that the Infantry of the Norwegian Army still maintains a reliable way of breaching trough obstacles on the battlefield and thus creating mobility on the battlefield. We are very pleased to share that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will now also receive the same capability, as a result of Norway’s recent decision to donate. We thank the parties involved in the process.

The POMBS is a detonating cord with package of explosives contained in one rucksack which is deployed across the chosen area by mean of a rocket. Comes in a light, heavy and training versions. Unconventionally deployed mines, booby traps, unexploded ordnance and man-made obstacles, such as triple barbed wire, are meant to stall military operations and represent a considerable danger in humanitarian missions. The POMBS is tailored around those threats and provides effective means to safely eliminate them by quickly creating access into such areas. It enables to create safe passages through minefields or manmade obstacles. The portability (one-man or two-man) and its simple operation make the POMBS an appropriate tactical solution to major battlefield threats.

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Photo: Heiko Junge, NTB.