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Syrian software engineer develops Scud tracking ‘app’, alerts users to potential missile strikes

2013, 26 spalio

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Replicas of a North Korean Scud-B missil

According to 27-year-old software engineer Dishad Othman, his newly created app can alert Syrians to any inbound Scud missile attacks.

Othman says his app uses advanced mathematical formulas to track Scud missiles and determine their approximate destination based on trajectory and speed. Once a missile has been detected, the formulas run and the point of impact is sent out to anyone who has downloaded the app, alerting them of the imminent danger, the Daily Mail reported.

The idea behind the app came when Othman read a friend’s Facebook post from north Syria, which said he had just watched a missile pass overhead. From there, the software engineer spent nearly two months creating his website before its official launch in June.

AYMTA-LOGO

Othman, originally from Syria himself, recently attended a New York conference hosted by Google where he explained the inner workings of his tech. The website’s namewww.aymta.comis Arabic and…

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