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Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "DefenseLINK News is reporting that 'troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building.' By simply holding the portable, handheld device named a "Radar Scope" up to a wall, users will be able to detect movements as small as breathing. The Radar Scope hopes to eventually give troops the ability to see up to 50 feet beyond a concrete wall to decrease losses in urban combat."
> Seeing it from the point of view of a guerrilla fighter, now you would have an
> easy way of luring troops into your traps by simply putting a dog in the
> building.
Do you have trouble distinguishing a person from a dog then?
> Or better than a dog, use a man, seeing how low the own human life is regarded
> by some of the latests fighters-against-freedom groups.
The US army already uses men in it's fight against freedom. 2000+ dead already in Iraq, though, and it seems like there's no shortage of people willing to fight against their occupation. Sooner or later Bush is going to have to admit defeat.
Funny. The Americans always think there's some sort of magical technical solution to something they have always been extremely crap at - guerilla warfare. You only need to look back to Somalia and Vietnam and all of those silly films which turn those total military disasters into some sort of victory as to how much of a problem they have.
Whether it's something about the American psyche I don't know, but guerilla warfare is a skill that involves using your brain. Inevitably you also come into contact with ordinary civilians in an urban environment as well, and you have to have at least some idea of what to do and to be able to get along with them. Suppose that blip on your new radar is a bunch of civilians or allies? You're not going to have a completely deserted city where anything that moves is the enemy to be blown away, but that describes the US military's tactics thus far.
The US military just don't seem to have those essential skills, and have continually looked to technical solutions to get around them. I would suggest training their troops an awful lot better than they do and giving their soldiers something every soldier should have - soldiering skills! That's why a lot of American soldiers are dying in Iraq. Unlike, especially their British, counterparts they just haven't got it in that kind of environment. Pure and simple. It's a people thing.
It was the ACLU that killed it.. Said it was a 4th amenndment violtaiont against unreasonable search and seizure for the police to use it. Fire & rescue squads most likely got scared off because they're government entities and could get sued for using this device. Even if it was to save lives. I can hear the ACLU now, "but the police could borrow it too."