WIDE AREA ASSESSMENT, UXO SURVEY,  UXO CLEARANCE, MINE CLEARANCE,  BATTLE AREA CLEARANCE, ERW CLEARANCE AND TREATMENT

• French-Prussian War of 1870: About 1,000,000 shells used, more than half of them in the Paris region.

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• World War I: 1,455,000 shells fired along the 700 km front line, or about 15 million tons of metals and explosives. 10 to 30% of them would not have worked. 2 to 3% of these ammunitions are chemical.

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• World War II: 22% of the bombs dropped during the Second World War were on France or about 600,000 tons and about 10% would not have worked. To which are added several million shells from June 44 to January 45.