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Leader of the future
Anna Paternnosto visited the CBRNE Unit of the Colombian National Police in Bogotá in 2019.©IB Consultancy CBNW talks to Anna Paternnosto, Director of Governmental Affairs, IB Consultancy and Vice President, CBRNe Society Anna Paternnosto completed her studies with a...
Big Data
Using the ObSAS LINK system with a CBRN detector.©Observis Oy CBNW Deputy Editor David Oliver meets Timo Paakki, CSO-Sales Director of Observis OyThe Finnish Company Observis Oy designs and delivers cost-effective and long lifetime solutions for CBRNe reconnaissance...
The Forever War
Media outlets visit one of the many impact sites created by the missile attacks at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq in January 2020. ©US Army/Spc. Derek Mustard We will neutralise youCBNW Editor Andy Oppenheimer reviews underlying and resurgent threats from Daesh and other...
We will neutralise you
Members of a RAID team (French national police intervention unit) during a training session wear the TFI suit.©OUVRY Ludovic Ouvry introduces a new CBRN personal protective suit – the POLYCOMBI – for military to civil first responders Armies face a double challenge:...
Achieving our AIMS
The ChemProX connectivity feature is applied to field schematics.© Environics Finnish company Environics has an undeniably long history in chemical detection. More than three decades later the company is pushing chemical detection to the next level with ChemProX,...
Russian NBC competition
The second qualifying stage of the 2020 "Safe environment" competition among nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) reconnaissance crews has been completed in the Airborne troops within the framework of the Army International Games-2020. Competitions were conducted in...
European CBRNe Drone development
Joint EDA/European Space Agency (ESA) Autonomous Drone Services in CBRNe Operation (AUDROS) project edges closer. AUDROS was one of the awarded teams of the one-year feasibility study contract worth €350,000. The Consortium was made up of four partners: the two Czech...
US Army contract for FLIR CW spray
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced on 15 July it has been awarded a full-rate production option worth $21.8 million on an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the United States Army. FLIR will deliver its Agentase C2 disclosure spray to detect G-...
Detection – Chemical Warfare Agents
Chlorine, mustard, sulphur-mustard and worse have been used in Iraq and Syria by state actors and non-state actors such as Daesh. While state actors like the Syrian regime have access to documented and suspected chemical munitions facilities, non-state actors rely...