Air Force of Nigeria to unveil new unmanned ground vehicle used as bomb detector 12907152
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Military Defense Industry Technology - Nigeria UGV
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The Nigerian Air force has unveiled unmanned ground vehicle bomb detector and a Light Surveillance Aircraft developed by the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna, north-west Nigeria. Commandant of the AFIT, Air Vice Marshal Toni Adokwe, introduced the device at a gathering ahead of the institute’s 44th Convocation Ceremony coming up on Friday, July 31, 2015
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 The new umanned ground vehicle bomb detector developed by the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology. |
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The Commandant demonstrated how the device could dictate and pick up Impoverished Explosive Device to safer locations for disposal. The device has a frequency jammer to distort GSM signals and also has a time run of four hours. He said it was produced by students of the Armament Engineering Department in 2012 and was later modified to a higher level called Unmanned Ground Vehicle type two. Adokwe affirmed that with effective innovative approach to technology, Nigeria would be able to tackle the current security challenge in the North-east. |
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