Army introduces safer cooking gas cylinders
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A new type of cooking gas cylinder that will disperse less lethal shrapnel if used as a bomb by insurgents was unveiled yesterday at a military research unit after it secured an initial approval from the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).
Speaking at a press conference, Isoc spokesman Maj-General Surachart Jitjang did not say if these Im Oon cylinders would be introduced for household use or if the Army would grant licences to civilian cylinder-makers for mass production.
The Im Oon cylinder is made of a composite material comprising resin and fibre glass, which would render lighter and smaller number of shrapnel, making it less lethal than generic cylinders that are made of metal, he said. The Isoc will further develop the Im Oon cylinder for possible mass production for household use in the insurgency-hit deep South.
