The United States Air Force is developing newer laser weapons that can explode mines from the ground. This technology will enable vehicles to destroy mines and other types of explosives safely. At the moment, such tasks are handled by robotic technology and trained specialists in protective suits.
According to the Daily Mail agency, the Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordinance system (abbreviated as RADBO) uses a laser to deactivate explosive devices from a distance of up to 300 meters. A special manipulator is also used, which can lift about 20 kg of loaded load. The system is equipped with an IR camera and two generators, issuing more than 1100 amps.
The advantage of the laser is that the elimination of various types of explosive devices is carried out from a distance sufficient to ensure maximum safety.
Impact of landmines
There are places on the planet where every year a large number of people suffer from the explosions of shells. Some become disabled, others die because of landmines. But besides this, explosions cause damage to transport systems, and children cannot get to educational institutions. This affects socio-economic development: post-war reconstruction is extremely slow. Even for peacekeeping organizations it is very difficult to get to such places. Children and old men and soldiers are dying. Mortality continues years after the war.
New technologies
The developers claim that the laser system is able to protect the territory from the many unexploded ordnance that remained on the runway. This will provide an opportunity to increase the speed of recovery of the military airfield for flight. And if you approach this task in standard ways, then it will take several weeks of constant work of the explosives specialists.
While this technology is at the development stage, but at the end of the necessary tests it is planned to release several dozen RADBOs.
