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This Tool Could Sniff Out a Paris Bomb More Than a Football Field Away

Rogue Valley

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This Tool Could Sniff Out a Paris Bomb More Than a Football Field Away

The U.S. military is working to refine and improve a multi-sensor device that could one day deploy to detect suicide vests...

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They're working on a device.

Why not just use a dog like they already do? I mean - the device is great but seems to be under development.
 
This is the best sniffing tool we've ever had, and it's been around for thousands of years:

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Simpleχity;1065271550 said:
Gotcha. Multiple systems is overkill :thinking
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Perhaps one day a device that is superior to a dog's nose might be invented. That day isn't yet.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Perhaps one day a device that is superior to a dog's nose might be invented. That day isn't yet.
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Probably never happen. But I'd still like a backup to increase the odds.
 
Simpleχity;1065271580 said:
Probably never happen. But I'd still like a backup to increase the odds.
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This is a ridiculously expensive shot in the dark with marginal, at best, success.
 
SMTA said:
This is a ridiculously expensive shot in the dark with marginal, at best, success.
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DARPA is funding hundreds of such projects at any given time and typically, progress is made in discreet yet compounding steps.

It goes without saying that currently, trained EOD-K9's are the best asset.

What is astounding in this thread is the resistance to a possibly additional method of revealing a cloaked menace.
 
Simpleχity;1065272617 said:
DARPA is funding hundreds of such projects at any given time and typically, progress is made in discreet yet compounding steps.

It goes without saying that currently, trained EOD-K9's are the best asset.

What is astounding in this thread is the resistance to a possibly additional method of revealing a cloaked menace.
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The government is extremely wasteful in spending on 'new technology' that does not work as advertised.

Cripe, the TSA's effectiveness is poor at best, and they are stationary and in a very controlled environment.

Hence, the reservedness here.
 
SMTA said:
The government is extremely wasteful in spending on 'new technology' that does not work as advertised.

Cripe, the TSA's effectiveness is poor at best, and they are stationary and in a very controlled environment.

Hence, the reservedness here.
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We wouldn't have such things as stealth technology and wireless prosthetic implants without innovation hits and misses.

Nevertheless, I do understand and appreciate fiscal reservations about government R&D.
 
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