...then it might work.
Posted on 07/09/2008 6:01:48 AM PDT by xzins
ICx ships Cerberus units to U.S. borders
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- ICx Technologies has begun shipping its unmanned mobile surveillance systems for deployment along the U.S. border with Mexico.
ICx officials say the shipments of their Cerberus unmanned mobile surveillance technology, part of a $4 million order, will go to support the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's operations along the U.S.-Mexican border.
The Cerberus units offer Border Patrol officers mobile surveillance towers with advanced radars and camera technology that company officials say enhance the ability to identify and track potential suspects attempting to cross the border as part of a "virtual fence," the release said.
"Border Patrol agents face tough challenges in making our borders safer," Adam Strange, ICx Tactical Platforms president, said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
The infrared radar I’ve seen could track a rabbit across a tank range at over a mile. It was very good.
or they could always build a fence.
Whats the point of being able to track one person when 1000 are coming across every day?
OmniEye Cerberus™ provides total day and night coverage with up to 19 coordinated sensors and pan-tilt-zoom capabilities. Combining both infrared and visible sensors into one centrally-mounted system, Cerberus covers large areas of land or water from a single location. Genex’s advanced OmniVision software utilizes the sensor array’s extended, continuous coverage for improved motion detection and object tracking. OmniEye Cerberus is ideal for protecting vital military installations, naval vessels, and waterways.
part of a total system that combines fencing and technology and people.
That is the only thing that will work.
I’m still waiting for a virtual fence around the white house. I’m sure a roving camera would be better than a fence.
will accomplish little other tha help us keep a count of the border crossers.
Well, great. Now we’ll be able to get a more accurate count of the illegals that we don’t even try to stop.
A fence alone won’t do it. It must be a total system as you find at the White House. A total system must have guards, fences/obstacles, and technology/sensors.
If those three prongs are necessary, then any expenditure on one of those prongs is a good thing in the long run.
The military finds it a great advantage to know where humans are. They can then be intercepted.
All of these sensors will be torn out of the ground and sold to scrap metal dealers in Mexico. That’s what happened to most of the old “fence” it was torn down one stretch at a time and sold for scrap. They’ll get about $1 dollar a pound, which is big money in that part of the desert.
See #4 “Cerberus covers large areas of land or water from a single location.”
It has to be operated by people.
All this means is that the government will have a more accurate count of the numbers of illegals passing over our borders (about which it will lie to us). I note no mention of any plan to work with the surveillance to actually APPREHEND the border scofflaws.
see #9
Now if they could just integrate the system with an M249 SAW...
That does require guards. :>)
How long before one of these units is stolen I wonder...
see #11
I only see ONE “prong”. Nothing there about actual PEOPLE and rules to actually apprehend the scofflaws. I simply do not trust the government to actually “do” anything actually effective in stopping the problem. Certainly Obama won’t. McCain says he will, but I don’t believe him any more than I do Obama.
As expected, the administration used much of the money allocated for the border fence to purchase more useless high-tech gee-gaws instead of concrete, rebar and barbed wire.
Politicians of both parties view any government purchase as an opportunity to line pockets instead of accomplish the stated goal.
It’s time for the Republican and Democrat parties to finalize their merger.
...then it might work.
O K
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