[Arctic_Menace]

Okay, I know it'll be difficult, but it may just help us win over the Afghan people.



My old ground school teacher worked with CATSA at CYOW(Ottawa Intl Airport). So every now adn then we'd get to see the day's confiscated items and use the technology that the employees used.

He explained to us how the x-ray machines work there.

They are colour-coded to make identification much easier. Blue for metals, green for plastics and other materials and orange for organic material.

If we could somehow deploy this technology in a compact piece of field kit like this:



Or this:





I think it would minimize the amount of times we have to treat everyone as a potential threat, can save lifes, and help win over the Afghan people mentally.


What say you?

[harzer_knaller]

Yeah... good Idea, I'd say... but did you know that too much X-Ray is harmful for Life?

[Mr_Canada old]

Great Idea Arc!

[Blue_Nose]

The way xrays work is that the rays pass through [people, luggage, etc] and hit a camera, which generates the image. To use xrays in the field, you'd need to have a camera set up in advance, behind whatever you were scanning.

[Arctic_Menace]

Quote:

The way xrays work is that the rays pass through [people, luggage, etc] and hit a camera, which generates the image. To use xrays in the field, you'd need to have a camera set up in advance, behind whatever you were scanning.

True, but I really didn't mean this as x-rays in the field, but something like it could be designed in a NVG or NODLR version.

Something that behaves like an x-ray(in the colour code) but is in a format such as NVG or NODLR.

[grainfedprairieboy]

I don't get how xray vision is supposed to solve Afghan problems.