[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: UXO Drone in Laos

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Introducing the UXO Drone, a Drone to Save Lives
With the development of a new technology, an innovation of today, the UXO Drone, can solve a forty year old problem and complete the removal of the undetonated bombs that litter Laos.

ReleaseWire
January 26, 2017

Bangkok, Thailand --  The Vietnam War was one of tragedy, terror, and tension, yet for the majority of the world it is in the past and is simply a period to be remembered. However, for the people of Laos, the Vietnam War, despite ending in 1973, is still being fought today. This anomaly is because of the war's time period and location. With the newly developed bombers of the 1960's, many bombs did not detonate upon collision with the ground. Additionally, Laos was the most bombed country in the Vietnam War, being assaulted on average once every eight minutes for nine desolate years. As a result, the country of Laos is still littered with bombs in every one of its corners. Thousands have died due to an unfortunate encounter with these unstable landmines dubbed unexploded ordnance (UXO). In fact, experts calculate that Laos may still contain up to eighty million unexploded, live bombs, buried in its soil.*

Today, a new company by the name of Aerial Lab is using new bomb-detection technology to undo some of the damage that was inflicted onto Laos by outdated bombing technology. To achieve this goal, the company has begun developing a piece of nascent technology named the UXO Drone. By using a drone to levitate a UXO-detecting rig over problem areas, the UXO Drone can overcome the problems that current bomb-disarming techniques fall victim to. With the UXO Drone, neither human nor animal lives have to be risked to disarm a bomb; instead, an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) can take the risk. 


Read more:  http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3215869#ixzz4Wwn8U8Mr

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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