NATO, Russia say device used to scan crowds for explosives near completion

RT ^ | 10/31/2013 | RT

[TexGrill]

NATO and Russia announced Wednesday that they have achieved the ability to target and locate bombs planted in large crowds, such as commuter hubs and sporting events.

The Stand-off Detection of Explosives and Suicide Bombers system (STANDEX) "could help NATO allies and Russia prevent terrorist attacks such as those carried out on the public transport systems in London, Madrid and Moscow" in the past decade, NATO said in a video news release that included Russian partners.

The project took four years and 4.8 million euros (US$6.6 million) of investment, paid for by NATO, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.

STANDEX - what NATO calls "world-first technology" - was developed by Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Russian laboratories and companies.

The system was first tested live in June within an underground station in an unnamed European city. STANDEX technology “can detect explosives remotely, in real time and without disrupting the flow of passengers,” NATO claims.

[TexGrill]

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[Darteaus94025]

Isn’t it called a Claymore?

[Greysard]

By the way, the photo in the article shows that the software runs on Linux (probably Ubuntu.) Looks like it is a multichannel, pretty advanced system of machine vision that latches onto abnormalities in shape of people that walk by. They are also mentioning sensors that operate in other bands, like microwave. The weapons detector from Total Recall is getting closer.

[Sacajaweau]

Notice that the US is not one of the actual developers.

[A CA Guy]

They will be able to scan some small spectrum of explosive and will probably be blind to a vast majority of them.

Meanwhile a terrorist with a nuke can float up to any nation on the world within a few miles of shore, blow up the nuke and never have to deal with the country it wants too hurt in any way. They at this time have NOTHING to prevent the real things that can hurt everyone around the world.

If some ship right now has a few nukes on it floating to Long Beach harbor from anywhere, gets within 10 or less miles and blows before an inspection, there goes the western sea board and what can be possibly done to prevent it?

That is where we are today IMO. I don't sweat the little stuff like a explosive going off compared to the nukes or poison gas.

[cunning_fish]

>>>Notice that the US is not one of the actual developers.<<<

King Obama runs jihad these days. There is no reason for his regime to fund countermeasures

[cynwoody]

Please make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their upright and locked position

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, scan that baby.