BAE unveils infrared 'invisibility cloak' for military vehicles
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BAE Systems demonstrated its Adaptiv thermal cloaking technology at last week's Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEi) show in London.
Monday, 28 May 2012
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Jambo40 | 28 Sep 2011 12:23 pm
Why doesn't it spend some of it research budget on IED detection devices these are the biggest killer of our troops, who cares about cloaking devices in Afghanistan???
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Tim Kyte | 28 Sep 2011 2:51 pm
I agree IED's are an area we should be flooding money into .. i thought about somthing in soldiers boots to track the area in front of ther foot so they had an audible or led indication of an ied before standing on it ... we have clever people out in the engineering world ... lets get it done
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Editor's comments | 28 Sep 2011 2:51 pm
As we've previously reported, BAE systems and the MOD have been researching ways to counter the IED threat for several years. For example: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/bae-and-portendo-join-forces-on-explosives-detector/1002459.article
Nath | 30 Sep 2011 3:06 pm
It'd seem to me that some kind of ground penetrating radar mounted on a low flying UAV, travelling in advance of a party would be able to meet the needs of IED detection.
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Kerry Green | 30 Sep 2011 3:21 pm
I don't understand why IED's are not just detonated using a small charge. I know some of the bomp disposal robots use a shotgun to seperate bomb components. There must be a reason why we use people to try to disarm them.
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Michael Loftus | 30 Sep 2011 3:48 pm
Stop sending our troops to illegal wars and save lives as well as a lot of money.
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Anonymous | 14 Oct 2011 1:27 pm
'I don't understand why IED's are not just detonated using a small charge. I know some of the bomp disposal robots use a shotgun to seperate bomb components. There must be a reason why we use people to try to disarm them'
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IED's are detonated with a small charge. Its not the trying to defuse when found that has a high percentage of kills to troops, it the standing on them or driving over them unexpectedly that kills.
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Anonymous | 4 Nov 2011 2:33 pm
Clearly you can't blow them up till you know where they are - so detection is the key. Work is progressing handily on low cost ways of reliably detecting IEDs.
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Anonymous | 23 Nov 2011 12:51 pm
The reason why they are defused is to try & gather forensic evidence of the maker & determine methods of deactivation.This has been a costly excersise for the EOD people & in some areas has been stopped & destruction implemented straight away.However it is locating the devices which needs improving.
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