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Navy To Test New Bomb Disposal Robot

By Marc Selinger

Friday, October 28th, 2016

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Navy To Test New Bomb Disposal Robot

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The Navy will soon begin trying out its new man-portable, bomb-disposing robot, the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) Increment 1, according to a service official.AEODRS Increment I “just went through contractor testing, and we’ll be getting our production-representative models in the next few months to be able to go out and do some testing with the system,” said Capt. Aaron Peters, a program manager in Naval Sea Systems Command’s Expeditionary Missions Program Office.The system, whose prime contractor is…

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