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Homeland Security

AeroVironment, Smiths Team on Chemical Agent Detection UAV

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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AeroVironment [AVAV], Smiths Detection and the Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center teamed to develop a chemical sensor that could fit into the nose cone of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that was successfully demonstrated during a flight test. For the test AV's RQ-11B Raven UAV was fitted with a modified version of Smith's Lightweight Chemical Detector, which is a commercial variant of the Joint Chemical Agent Detector the company makes for the Defense Department. The modification into a cylindrical form…

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