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One Israeli company, International Technologies Lasers (ITL), has received an initial order from Israel’s Ministry of Public Security for a system that can detect the explosives favored by suicide bombers, according to a Globes report. The system is based on technology demonstrated earlier this year by ITL and industry sources are extremely optimistic about the product.
The technology, which makes the detection of explosives possible, is called laser spectroscopy and is based on the fact that each material in nature reflects light in a unique way. The system's computers sense the reflected light of various materials and match it with that of various substances, issuing a warning when a match with a dangerous material is identified.
ITL, together with will the Israel Police, will develop an operational system based on the technology. Amichai Robb, ITL’s General Manager told Globes that his company’s technology had several advantages, and could be deployed within a short time. The company is also developing civilian applications of the system.
Another Israeli breakthrough in security technology was developed by Achidatex, a company in Upper Nazareth that manufactures bulletproof vests and car armor. It is a wall-covering that can shield a room from rockets and missiles, such as the Hamas-made Qassam rockets being fired from Gaza and Hizbullah’s long-range missiles deployed on Israel’s northern border.
The covering is a special weave of cotton and Kevlar - the material in the manufacturing of bulletproof vests – and can be applied to a structure’s interior walls like wallpaper and can be painted over.
In the event of a blast and aftershock caused by an explosion in close proximity, most injuries are caused by collapsed walls and concrete fragments. According to the company website the wall covering – which is available at $40 a meter - “stretches under the impact of the blast, distributing the stresses caused, and prevents the concrete and brick fragments from penetrating into the building’s interior, thus shielding and greatly reducing injury to the people within.”
The technology, which makes the detection of explosives possible, is called laser spectroscopy and is based on the fact that each material in nature reflects light in a unique way. The system's computers sense the reflected light of various materials and match it with that of various substances, issuing a warning when a match with a dangerous material is identified.
ITL, together with will the Israel Police, will develop an operational system based on the technology. Amichai Robb, ITL’s General Manager told Globes that his company’s technology had several advantages, and could be deployed within a short time. The company is also developing civilian applications of the system.
Another Israeli breakthrough in security technology was developed by Achidatex, a company in Upper Nazareth that manufactures bulletproof vests and car armor. It is a wall-covering that can shield a room from rockets and missiles, such as the Hamas-made Qassam rockets being fired from Gaza and Hizbullah’s long-range missiles deployed on Israel’s northern border.
The covering is a special weave of cotton and Kevlar - the material in the manufacturing of bulletproof vests – and can be applied to a structure’s interior walls like wallpaper and can be painted over.
In the event of a blast and aftershock caused by an explosion in close proximity, most injuries are caused by collapsed walls and concrete fragments. According to the company website the wall covering – which is available at $40 a meter - “stretches under the impact of the blast, distributing the stresses caused, and prevents the concrete and brick fragments from penetrating into the building’s interior, thus shielding and greatly reducing injury to the people within.”
