Japan is developing a vehicle-mounted system designed to remotely detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along roads in urban and suburban areas.
The Ground Systems Research Center (GSRC) of the Ministry of Defense's (MoD's) Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency (ATLA) unveiled a prototype of what it described as a "high-speed IED detection system" on 6 October in the city of Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, where the GSRC is located.
The system, which was shown mounted on a Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) utility vehicle, uses microwave and millimetre-wave radars coupled with infrared (IR) cameras to detect IEDs ahead of the vehicle: either on the road surface or buried in the ground.
janes.com