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The Thai government was slammed by opposition party Move Forward for wasting almost 7.6 million baht of its budget on investigating GT200 bomb detectors only good enough to be used as a “cat poop scoop.” The GT200 was produced by UK-based Global Technical Ltd, who claimed the device could detect, from a distance, various substances including explosives and drugs. It was distributed to a number of different countries in 2001 under the name of GT200, ALPHA46, ADE+651, and AL-6D. The first organization that imported and used the GT200 device was the Royal Thai Airforce. The UK Government banned the export […]

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Can put it in the museum together with a aircraft carrier with no plane’s a submarine with no engine this is the museum of failures

or put it in the museum of corruption there it will be a top asset 

it only proof of how i think of them 

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18 minutes ago, Janneman said:

Well, allegedly it did detect 4 out of 20 bombs in a test. Which is not bad for an empty plastic scoop-like device.

A loud ticking may have aided detection 🤣

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The guy behind this was given 7 years in a UK Jail in 2013 for fraud over these things. It's now 2022 and Thailand is only just finding out. Maybe someone in the Thai Government was handed a very large brown paper bag.

Funny how the biggest section in the Wikipedia entry is about Thailand.

 

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