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Date: | Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:54:00 -0700 (PDT) |
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Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Newark Company's System Helps Detect Deadly Land Mines |
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/12/BU5666 .DTL San Francisco Chronicle 6/12/00 Newark Company's System Helps Detect Deadly Land Mines David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor A new technique for detecting buried plastic land mines -- the indiscriminate legacy of wars both past and present -- has scored 100 percent success in locating the deadly devices during field tests in Bosnia and at an Army base in Missouri, the Defense Department reported. The promising new systems have been developed with Pentagon support by a 10-year-old high-tech company called InVision Technologies of Newark, which makes advanced devices for detecting concealed explosives at airport baggage handling facilities. In a ``blind test in unprepared soil'' in Bosnia last December, the first truck-mounted prototypes successfully found six buried anti-personnel containers holding RDX, a solid high explosive also known as cylonite, and two TNT targets resembling anti-tank mines, according to the Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). continued ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/12/BU5666 .DTL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can find archived listserve messages on the CPEO website at http://www.cpeo.org/lists/index.html. If this email has been forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a message to: cpeo-military-subscribe@igc.topica.com ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics | |
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