Watch: Come’on down, to the ‘IED Rodeo’
The more IEDs you train on, the better you are prepared for the field.
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The more IEDs you train on, the better you are prepared for the field.
Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?
We were clumsy animals. It was junior high all over again, and I just drank a 40 oz of malt liquor and was now attempting to wildly grope for some boob. The road was as hazardous as my date – unknown, inexperienced, and random. Yet, the excitement was the moment – forward!
As the training progressed through the day, the troops split into pairs and practiced minefield extraction techniques in separate lanes and set flags to mark potential threats as they proceeded down their individual routes.
Researchers at MIT and Princeton have built a new laser-powered terahertz spectroscopy system capable of detecting chemicals used in explosives. Terahertz spectroscopy is the measurement of electromagnetic radiation between the frequencies of microwaves and infrared. Scientists have long realized the radiation’s potential for bomb detection, but traditional terahertz spectroscopy systems are bulky and use lots […]