through wall radar

[wacki]

Devices that let you see through walls. Here is one sold for 22K:

http://www.armoroutlet.com/AOtactical/AOtac_radar.html



one more picture:
http://www.wordsun.com/cc69p1.jpg

and here is another device
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,84400,00.html



Anyone ever use one of these things? Cuz if they work I'm amazed we aren't using them in Iraq.

 

[NastyNate]

Never used one of those, but I have used a thermal imaging camera during fires. It can pick up heat on the other side of a wall, if the person is fairly close.

 

[thexrayboy]

Nice but of little practical use for most people at this point in time. It would work well through simple 2X4 drywall walls but if the wall has any substance to it such as concrete, brick etc. the amount of energy needed to penetrate the material of the wall would make it difficult to evaluate what was on the other side. Radar is EMF just like radiation. Change the energy being used by filtering the beam i.e. a thick wall and you change the characteristics of the energy that makes it through to be used on the other side. If the energy attenuation profile of the objects you are searching for does not match the characteristic energy of the emf your are searching with you can miss them.

For 22k I'll just stick a fiberoptic camera around the corner and take a looksee.

 

[Steve Wynn]

The press release on the second link was dated Jan. 3, 2006 and said the unit was expected to "fielded" by troops in Iraq in the spring. (About 6 months ago). I haven't heard anything about it, I wonder what the status is.

Steve

 

[motoman]

That second device's price is listed at 1000.00. I would almost be willing to pick one up for that price just to play with.

 

[wacki]

Never used one of those, but I have used a thermal imaging camera during fires. It can pick up heat on the other side of a wall, if the person is fairly close.

Close to the wall? Can it sense the person when they are fare away but right next to the wall?

 

[Lucky]

I read those articles in such a way to interpret that they don't sense 'people' so much as movement.

 

[wacki]

I read those articles in such a way to interpret that they don't sense 'people' so much as movement.

The discovery channel had a special on these and they claimed it could sense your heart beating. But TV has been wrong before.....

 

[Grey54956]

Devices like these will someday result in (pick one):

1.) Illegal gov't spying on people in their house (gov't invasions of privacy)?

2.) Illegal stalking of pretty, naked coeds (pervert invasions of privacy)?

3.) "Place your hands in the yellow circles!"..."I am a meat popsicle".

4.) All of the above.

Still, could be good in a combat enviroment.

 

[The Grand Inquisitor]

It just seems to me like this is another inevitable piece of technology that will do a limited mount of good in the short term, and will eventually become adopted by theose in power who are interested in nothing but control and making sure the peasants don't get too far out of line.

 

[Lucky]

Doesn't seem much different than searching out drug dealers by their house's heat signatures. Illegal, if there's no other evidence to go by. Legal if used to corroborate something else.

About hear-beating, that seems similar to the article posted in which the device can detect a person breathing, based on the movement.

 

[DocMustang]

This time the tinfoil hat folks may have a point

Nice toys, I had an opportunity to work with these a few summers back. They really do work to locate heartbeats within a normally constructed home. However, within any sort of metal enclosure the radar will not penetrate and you get no signal.

 

[SamTuckerMTNMAN]

The press release on the second link was dated Jan. 3, 2006 and said the unit was expected to "fielded" by troops in Iraq in the spring. (About 6 months ago). I haven't heard anything about it, I wonder what the status is.

Steve

The status is....they don't have the money.
If officers are cleaning stalls because we can't pay custodians, electric bills are being defaulted, and caretakers can't cut grass on bases in the south ( of US), where in the **** are 'see through' wall gadgets going to come from?

take ur pick....

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_money_021104,00.html

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1966821.php

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-28-military-gear_x.htm?csp=34