Newly technology built to stop suicide car bombers

A technology is being tested at a secret location in Norway that can make a car’s engine cut out using high-intensity jammers.

Better still, it can also take out drones, jet skis, and any other vehicle used to deliver bombs. And it has also positively tested disrupting remote control-activated bombs – even chemical and biological ones.

A video posted by NATO Channel shows the device being put through its paces using fast cars, briefcase bombs and drones as it prepares to be unveiled.

An individual is show in the video playing a suicide bomber, and approaches the target, which is a big black jeep and just coming up, and by losing the power, the lights gone off and the car is dead.

Dr Ernst Krogager heads up an international team developing a new device which stops suspected suicide bombers’ vehicles. The team is now testing their new technology at a secret location in Norway. The NATO-funded project has developed a high-intensity electromagnetic beam which makes engines cut out.

“The ignition would generate a very high-intensity pulse that would interfere with the electronic control system inside the car and the engine would stop,” said Dr. Ernst Krogager.

The first test simulated a suicide bomber driving up to a checkpoint. But would the device work against a suicide bomber targeting a moving car?

Dr. Ernst Krogager said, “What’s going to happen is that when we get really close to it, they will fire the engine-stopper and the electromagnetic noise from the radio will actually interfere with our engine and stop it.”

He said, “Well, it’s a fairly safe and simple way of doing it; and it’s also non-lethal: it doesn’t actually kill anyone, it doesn’t harm anyone and it doesn’t really harm the vehicle much either.”

This device is not just for use in high-risk countries. At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July 2011, Oslo was hit by an enormous car bomb planted by Anders Breivik outside the Prime Minister’s office. And Norwegians clearly still remember that day well.

The device was also tested by the team to see if the device can defend against bombs mounted on drones. With the drones’ electronics successfully jammed, the team now knows that any terrorist planning this kind of attack will face a new kind of obstacle.

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