Explosives
The TruDefender FT instrument uses FTIR technology and serves as a complementary identification tool to the FirstDefender product line.
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are gaining traction worldwide, due in part to the relative ease of production and widespread availability of raw materials. Because today's IEDs are not fueled by traditional explosive materials like TNT, but are made in crude chemical labs using industrial chemicals like nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel and sugar, they avoid detection by traditional explosive detection technologies and trained canines. This has led military organizations and civilian agencies to research and quickly deploy new systems to counter the current IED threat.
The FirstDefender and TruDefender product lines are ideal solutions for identification of both liquid and solid industrial chemicals and headspace gas, as well as numerous explosives and their precursors. The next-generation FirstDefender RM and FirstDefender RMX instruments, based on Raman spectroscopy, and TruDefender FT and TruDefender FTG devices, based on FTIR spectroscopy, can be used to quickly verify the contents of tankers, drums, bags and bottles at checkpoints. Featuring vast databases, mixture analysis capabilities, and highly accurate, reliable operations, Thermo Scientific products are deployed around the world to enable field-based assessment of a broad spectrum of unknown and suspicious chemicals. The FirstDefender and TruDefender instruments provide military organizations, national security agencies, and law enforcement personnel a unique set of tools in the fight against the IED threat.
The FirstDefender RM is the next-generation Raman device for explosives identification.
FirstDefender RMX instrument includes a fixed probe and can be mounted to select tactical robots through an integration kit.
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