Belgian Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service
Belgium's bomb-disposal service, a recipient of the ROV order.
Belgium's bomb-disposal service is among the end-users named in the country's 29 July 2026 tender for tethered underwater ROVs.
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Why would a bomb-disposal team want a robot on a cable rather than an autonomous one?
Timeline for Belgian Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service
Mentioned in: Belgium's twelve robots come with cables
Autonomous Systems: Land & SeaBackground
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service sits among the four units drawing on Belgium's 29 July 2026 underwater-ROV order.
For a bomb-disposal service, the Tether is the point rather than a limitation: it carries a physical recovery line and a data link that jamming cannot cut, keeping a human in direct control at the moment a device is approached or handled. An autonomous vehicle making its own decisions around unexploded ordnance is precisely the risk the specification is written to avoid. No contract value has been disclosed.
What is the Belgian Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service?
Why do the EOD Service's new ROVs stay human-operated?
Which other Belgian units share the ROV order with the EOD Service?
