New radar can detect suicide bombers from 100 yards away (Yahoo! News)

The CounterBomber is a life-saving piece of gear that should be commonplace on every battlefield

The U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan face many threats every day, but none is more unpredictable than individuals willing to sacrifice their own lives to attack. Suicide bombers have been a major issue since the very earliest days of the war on terror, but their tactics may now be much less effective thanks to a new radar system by Science, Engineering and Technology Corporation (SET).

Using a device called the CounterBomber, military personnel can get an advanced warning of possible suicide bomber threats. Equipped with a trio of radar detectors, the CounterBomber can sense possible bombers up to 100 yards away, before they become a danger to buildings, civilians, or soldiers. The unit uses a complicated algorithm to detect possible bomb materials hiding beneath a person's clothing, and once a threat is detected, soldiers can be warned via a handheld device like a smartphone.

Additionally, the CounterBomber doesn't use x-ray technology for detection, so unlike the somewhat intrusive methods used by airport security, privacy concerns are essentially nonexistent. Each of the devices carries a $300,000 price tag, but with SET securing a $48.2 million contract with the U.S. Army, there should be no shortage of these life-saving robotic scouts on the battlefield.

SET via?Gizmodo

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