The US Military is hard at work looking for ways to detect roadside bombs. They’ve thrown billions of dollars at the problem and come up with aircraft, robots, hi-tech sensors. But ultimately they rely on dogs:
Pip the Arms and Explosives Search (AES) dog.
But in the war against improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, no weapon is as effective as well-trained soldiers and their bomb-sniffing dogs, said Army Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization.
“Dogs are the best detectors,” Oates said at an Oct. 20 news conference at JIEDDO headquarters in Arlington, Va.When dogs are teamed with small dismounted teams of U.S. and Afghan troops, they are capable of detecting 80 percent of IEDs, he said. “That combo presents the best detection system we currently have.”
[Via Technology Falls Short in the War Against IEDs - Blog.]
Try as we might, we still can’t match Nature.
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