Forces concerning Afghanistan, he believes the Pentagon is making progress concerning the fight anti IEDs.throughout a falter to Afghanistan arrived July, U.S. Undersecretary of security Ashton shipper held Washington was costs $3 billion on equipment to combat the warning of pavement bombs. remaining day, in favor of occurrence, the Pentagon provided $495 million to acquisition 34 tethered surveillance blimps so as to hand over troops a birds eye look over of one areas and sent in the sphere of further unmanned surveillance aircraft so route-clearance patrols would cover the benefit of full-motion cassette.The Pentagon plus delivered added than 5,000 hand-held bomb detectors, improved training and sent further equipment to Afghanistan to counter the risk.