Pentagon admits – Dogs are the best bomb detectors
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“Bomb detection is one of the weakest capabilities of the US army in combat” Says Spencer Ackerman in an article published few days ago in the “Wired” magazine titled:
Drones, metal detectors, chemical sniffers, and super spycams — forget ‘em. The leader of the Pentagon’s multibillion military task force to stop improvised bombs says there’s nothing in the U.S. arsenal for bomb detection more powerful than a dog’s nose.
The article claims that the Pentagon has spent over 19 Billion Dollars on IED detection tricks and gadgets without any real breakthrough in performance.
The core problem: the bombs are still proliferating — and not just in Afghanistan and Iraq, but globally. According to statistics Darpa provided the author last month, for the last six months, there have been an average of 273 monthly IED incidents around the world excluding Iraq and Afghanistan.
The full article can be found here.
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