Recent discovery of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) by 1st Line Defence on a commercial site in Scotland highlights the importance of undertaking a Detailed UXO Risk Assessment, and the value of using local knowledge – and not just official records. A seemingly innocuous site at face value was in fact found to have a very interesting […]
This week saw the accidental detonation of the second largest bomb to have ever been deployed during WWII. The incident occurred during an operation to defuse the massive weapon, which was found in a waterway leading to the port of Szczecin in Poland. The British-made bomb, dubbed the ‘Tallboy’, is understood to have been dropped […]
1st Line Defence Ltd is delighted to announce our new Florida based company in the United States, 1st Line Defense LLC, which has been established following huge growth and success in the UK market. This success has provided the platform, drive and ambition to progress our business strategy by investing in new technology and markets […]
In 2019, 1st Line Defence were contacted by one of our regular clients who had come across what they thought might have been an old bomb shell on a construction site they were working on in Kent. The client did exactly the right thing by stopping ground works, setting up a cordon around the item […]
1st Line Defence is delighted to announce that our Silver Award has been re-validated in the Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) 2020 Awards for East Anglia, which recognises our on-going support to the Armed Forces Community and Defence people in the UK. The ERS Awards continues to grow in strength each year, it was launched in […]
Military bomb disposal experts have spent the past month clearing almost 1,000 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on Cowden Sands – a beach in Yorkshire, UK – that was previously used as an RAF bombing range. Coastal erosion is now revealing practice bombs and other explosive devices that have been buried in the cliff face […]
Thank you to DOVO – the Royal Belgian Association of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technicians – who have kindly shared some pictures to highlight injuries caused to a Belgian civilian who inadvertently picked up a century-old unexploded mustard gas projectile. The injured man was ‘magnet fishing’ waterways for war relics and after he was injured, DOVO […]
More items of unexploded ordnance were safely recovered last week by our team supporting planned excavation work as part of a new wind farm installation in Scotland. Following an initial non-intrusive survey at one of the proposed turbine locations, additional support work led to the discovery of numerous 2-inch mortars and another 25lb projectile. Ten […]
1st Line Defence have recently been contracted to provide UXO support and create a risk mitigation strategy for a new wind farm site location in Scotland, UK. The site was part of a wider military armaments training facility that was used during WWII, the use of which left a legacy of UXO contamination in the […]
2019 saw significant growth for 1st Line Defence and with so many plans and ideas for the future, we decided that our office space needed to grow together with us, and provide more room for our 45+ office staff. An exciting opportunity arose at the beginning of 2020 to acquire an additional office space in the […]
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