An Airborne Personnel Detector Mk3, colloquially known as a "People Sniffer". Installed in ...

Place Asia: Vietnam, Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Accession Number P01782.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Hyland, R
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Date made 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

An Airborne Personnel Detector Mk3, colloquially known as a "People Sniffer". Installed in Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron RAAF, the device was able to detect by scent the presence of humans on the ground beneath the aircraft, as it flew at treetop level.