MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The Moscow-based Transkript research and production center has come out with the Samurai optics detection system at the Security Technologies exhibition underway in Moscow, Konstantin Beneyev, the center's deputy director general, told Interfax-Military News Agency Thursday.
"Samurai is designed to detect snipers, photographic and video cameramen, and other operators of optical equipment in order to assist forces in anti-terrorist warfare," he said.
According to him, the device can detect optics at up to 2,200 meters independently of whether they are passive, active, TV or laser ones, as well as find range and count the number of optical systems within the reach.
The output of the range data is either voice or sound.
Transkript will also provide professional training to the operator of the system, for which dedicated programs have been elaborated.
According to Beneyev, the system has already been fielded in a number of uniformed agencies' detachments in Chechnya, and is operated successfully by Russian border guards at Tajik-Afghan border.
The Security Technologies international forum is held in Moscow for the tenth time. It will end Friday.