Posted on 08/10/2005 7:10:40 PM PDT by SandRat
A group of former Navy Seals is training with a Tucson company to help make military operations in Iraq safer for troops.
The former Seals are training to use a device, made by Ionatron Inc., to detonate roadside bombs in Iraq before U.S. troops encounter the explosives.
The devices are called JINs, or Joint Improvised Explosive Device Neutralizers, and can detect and disable or detonate roadside bombs, one of the deadliest threats facing U.S. troops in Iraq, Ionatron executives say.
The Seals and other troops are expected to be deployed with the JIN devices "very, very soon," company president and CEO Thomas Dearmin said in a conference call Wednesday.
"Due to recent events and more casualities, we've received many, many phone calls from senior officials wanting to know when deployment is possible," Dearmin said.
Dearmin's comments came amid the company's quarterly earnings report.
Ionatron reported a second quarter net loss of $1.7 million, bigger than the $1.4 million loss reported in the same period last year. This loss translates to a drop of 2 cents per share in the company, traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Ionatron has produced 12 units for testing, some armored and some "basically disposable," said Joseph Hayden, executive vice president for Ionatron business operations.
Dearmin said the company plans to have the capacity to produce 17 JINs per month by November, and could be able to produce three times that number by the end of December.
SEAL. (Not "Seal" or "seal".)
Anyone know if this just works on remote detonated IEDs (cell phones) or will it work against the kind that are set off using a battery, etc.?
Whatever, it will save a lot of lives in Iraq. Anything to save our troops.
They need to have the device with the capability of exploding the device while it is being planted.
Just a thought. More like a dream, reallyl.
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Lethal configurations are also available !!!
I always liked "Frogmen", personally. It's retro... SEALs are so cliche!
JIN great acronym ...what the koran calls one of Satan's legion...
Their satanic plans get 86'd and they will blame it on the
devil JINs....bwahahahaha
"Anyone know if this just works on remote detonated IEDs (cell phones) or will it work against the kind that are set off using a battery, etc.?"
I don't know but I'd LOVE to find out how this works.
> They need to have the device with the capability of
> exploding the device while it is being planted.
When forces are close enough to detect that, or observing
the coordinates from the air, the perps are engaged by
conventional means.
But yes, some cellphone countermeasures might have the
effect of causing bombs to go off in the IED factory.
>> .. just works on remote detonated IEDs (cell phones)
>> or will it work against the kind that are set off
>> using a battery, etc.?"
My impression is that the current trend in Iraq is
toward wireline dets, which suggests that we have
cell countermeasures in place.
> I don't know but I'd LOVE to find out how this works.
So would the cutthroat cult, so we need to minimize
the speculation.
/sarcasm?
"Silence is Golden"...?
:-(
"But yes, some cellphone countermeasures might have the
effect of causing bombs to go off in the IED factory."
The Israeli's have them. They set off a bunch last year by riding around and ''' uh'' sending "signals" and blew up a bunch of bomb factories..while they were making bombs.
It was posted somewhere here I will see if I have it saved.
I just ordered a few shares of the stock.
Applied Physics bump.
Tech company unveils roadside bomb neutralizer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1438688/posts
http://www.ionatron.net/default.aspx?id=48
Second Quarter 2005 Results
"Revenue for the second quarter of 2005 was $4.0 million, compared to $1.8 million for the same period last year. "
...Ionatron Inc., of Tucson, Ariz., is almost ready to send a remote-controlled vehicle that travels up to 35 m.p.h. and uses a high-voltage surge of electricity, similar to a lightning bolt, to disable or destroy hidden explosives from up to 1,000 yards away. The company calls it JIN, or Joint IED Neutralizer.
The device would sweep dangerous areas clear of bombs before U.S. troops entered. It has been successful in 90 percent of field tests so far, said Mark Carallo, a company spokesman. Ionatron is under contract with the U.S. military to produce 12 of the devices. Each costs a little less than $1 million to make, Carallo said. The company unveiled a prototype July 8 at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi, where production will take place.
Ionatron hopes to have all 12 devices in Iraq in the next 45 to 60 days, Carallo said. "There is nothing more terrifying to a soldier than going out on patrol and not knowing what's out there," Carallo said. "This is going to allow our soldiers to have confidence that when they go out on patrol that the threat of IEDs is going to be significantly reduced."
Alliant Techsystems Inc., of Edina, Minn., announced last month that it had won a $1.5 million contract from the Air Force to develop its Scorpion II demonstration system, which uses high-powered microwave energy to neutralize explosive devices.
The system also works from a distance. The company declined to provide further details about the equipment, except to say it was effective 74 percent of the time in tests at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona....
Oh goodie, let's give the terr perps a heads up on possible capabilities.
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