US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives
 

US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives

09-01-2012 05:38 AM

Hugh Pickens writes "The Department of Defense currently relies on dogs as the animal of choice for explosives detection but training dogs is expensive and takes a long time. Now the US Army is sponsoring a project to develop and test a rugged, automated and low-cost system for training rats to detect improvised explosive devices and mines. "The automated system we're developing is designed to ...

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