[Future Snake Eater]

Sorry. TTP is tactic, technique, procedure.

I don't know enough about whether it works just to shoot an IED. I do know there are plenty of other methods of controlling IED detonations that the terrorists don't know about--and they're VERY effective.

[GSlob]

"I don't know enough about whether it works just to shoot an IED."
Depends. From my ages ago training in explosives, if one can shoot through a detonator, then yes, even a regular rifle bullet would work. But the probability of hitting the sensitive detonator [especially if the IED is hidden] is zilch. Thus, [just as for an aviation bomb], one is more likely to hit the body of relatively insensitive high explosive. To cause reliable detonation in such a case one needs either a hypervelocity projectile [not available] or a projectile which is itself explosive and would serve as a detonator, i.e. high explosive round- like decent-sized HEAP, if I remember the acronym. If IED is hidden in a pile of bricks, I'd go for 20mm HEAP, no less.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[SLB]

I do know there are plenty of other methods of controlling IED detonations that the terrorists don't know about--and they're VERY effective.

They now know they exist. Careful what you say here, the walls have ears.