Visual Defence: SecurEye survives bomb blast tests
Visual Defence: SecurEye survives bomb blast tests. Visual Defence announced that its recent submission of its robust forensic camera – Secureye – designed and built at the request...
Visual Defence: SecurEye survives bomb blast tests. Visual Defence announced that its recent submission of its robust forensic camera – Secureye – designed and built at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate has successfully survived rigorous blast testing – including an actual explosive charge representative of a terrorist bomb in a transit bus.
The DHS Secure (System Efficacy through Commercialization, Utilization, Relevance and Evaluation) Program requires third party independent testing, so these explosive tests were performed at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) in Aberdeen, MD.
This transit bus blast test scenario featured a retired Maryland Transit Authority bus rigged with representative explosives to emulate a suicide bomber detonation. Multiple camera units were positioned throughout the bus prior to the detonation.
ATC technicians reported recovery of all units placed within the vehicle even though the transit bus was reduced to a mass of twisted metal.
