The Russian messenger to NATO Headquarters, Aleksandr Grushko, confirmed Friday that a multinational technology project could have stopped Brussels terrorists.
The plan was just this airport have been equipped with advanced technology for tracing explosives in large crowds. In a joint project – STANDEX (Stand-off Detection of Explosives) – was the airport at NATO headquarters designated as pilot area.
But the cooperation between NATO countries and Russia were called off after Ukraine crisis when NATO called off all cooperation.
– the project could largely have helped to prevent such situations as the one at Brussels’ airport and metro, being Grushko Friday cited in the Putin-friendly channel Russia today.
on the basis of russian technology developed it should have been possible to track and analyze micro particles in the air, and thus identify explosives and who had them.
According to unnamed sources should already have tried out system successfully on a subway station in Paris in October 2013. in a press release from NATO, dated October 30, 2013, also referred to the project in very positive terms.
– the system would have made it possible to hide identify Brussels-terrorists at the moment they arrived at the terminal, said the Russian diplomat.
the plan was one inside STANDEX project initially deploy the system by public transportation as subway stations, airports and train stations, writes RT.com.
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