Project Summary
Development of a system for detecting, identifying, and neutralizing explosive devices (including anti-tank and anti-personnel mines) using backscattered X-ray imaging, chemical composition analysis via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and triggering chain reactions to decompose the explosive material using targeted X-ray radiation.
About the Company
LLC “RADIOPROM” was founded in 2002 as a company specializing in the development of X-ray equipment. The company’s uniqueness lies in its flexibility, continuous innovation, and full-cycle manufacturing — from concept to finished product. All products are delivered with proprietary software. Since its inception, the company has developed and delivered over a thousand X-ray systems for various applications. The team includes a professor, a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, and a PhD in physics and mathematics.
Website: https://lrmtradioprom.com/
Employees: 19
Production capabilities: experimental and industrial-scale manufacturing
Market Overview
Since the start of the full-scale war, anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines, along with unexploded ordnance and other hazardous remnants, have contaminated 30% of Ukraine’s territory — more than 67,000 km². Experts estimate that it could take up to 700 years to completely clear the affected areas.
Problem Statement
Non-explosive demining technology is critical in areas close to residential buildings, gas pipelines, and power lines.
Currently, no manufacturers offer a comprehensive solution — a full-cycle system for dealing with explosive devices from detection and identification to safe, non-explosive neutralization.
This technology enables the detection and neutralization of explosive threats (including anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in both plastic and metal casings) on the surface and buried underground up to 50 cm deep, with high operational efficiency.
Solution
The proposed system will detect, identify, and neutralize explosive devices (including anti-tank and anti-personnel mines) through backscattered X-ray imaging. Soil scanning will be carried out using a narrow collimated X-ray beam. When a suspicious object is detected, the diameter of the scanning beam will automatically decrease (to enhance spatial resolution), and the detectors will switch to fluorescence mode to identify the chemical composition of the detonator's explosive substance. Then, the explosive compound of the detonator capsule will be decomposed using targeted X-ray radiation.
Target performance:
- Detection: 1.0–2.0 hectares per hour
- Identification and neutralization: 1 mine every 20–30 minutes
Current Project Status (Technical Feasibility Proven):
- The effectiveness of the concept and key design solutions has been confirmed. Parameters of the X-ray source have been defined; core components of the collimator and detectors have been developed; electronics and imaging software have been created.
- Ongoing efforts include the development of an automatic collimator adjustment system, control modules for the entire complex, and a neural network for automated mine detection.
- System performance — including detection depth and neutralization time — has been evaluated.
- The project is currently at the stage of submitting an intellectual property protection application.
Business Model
- Sale of systems to governments and military organizations
- Sale to humanitarian demining organizations
Target Markets: Ukraine, NATO and allied countries, private defense companies, humanitarian demining organizations
Investment Proposal
Required investment: $200 000 to complete development and build the first prototype. The cost of the system is expected to pay off within one month through use in humanitarian demining operations.
Offer to Investors: Equity stake in the company or a share of future sales revenue.
Contact:Oleh Morgun — Director, LLC “RADIOPROM”, [email protected]
