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After Gatwick: Stopping The Drones
The prevalence of IEDs in Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with their simplicity, resulted in these devices being difficult to detect and extremely deadly. During these campaigns unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs – ‘drones’) were also deployed against Coalition forces in...
The Pandemic Is Here
Caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, there is so much that we do not know yet about the virus causing this pandemic – despite its rampant path worldwide since it was first detected last year in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province in China. As of April, at...
Koyaanisqatsi
For centuries, microbial life has proved to be a stealthy and deadly enemy of the people. From the Black Death (bubonic plague) in the 14th-century to the influenza pandemic which which killed up to 50 million from 1918 to 1920, and now, in our century, the...
Protecting Against The Invisible Enemy
Governments across Europe have intensified their search for ventilators as doctors and hospitals prepare for a continuing surge in patients infected with COVID-19Medical ventilators are machines designed to put oxygen into the lungs of patients with acute respiratory...
Australian C-IED and CBRN systems
The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) announced on 29 March that more than 15,000 additional units of the Silvershield counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) system will be delivered to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) this year....
Argon’s CBRNe and HazMat Training Insights – October 2019
Introducing the FLIR identiFINDER R425
FLIR Introduces FLIR identiFINDER R425, Next-Generation Handheld Radionuclide Identification Device New Cubic Detector Design Delivers 360-Degree Coverage so Responders Can Locate and Measure Radioactive Sources with Confidence ARLINGTON, VA, October 22,...
Avon Protection Launch New Tactical Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) at DSEI 2019
Avon Protection is pleased to announce the launch of its next generation tactical SCBA, the ST54, specifically developed for the tactical operator. The ST54 was designed and built for the global tactical SCBA operator, delivering state of the art scalable respiratory...
PELA Systems is launching its latest sensor integration platform – PELAmesh.
On Tuesday, 10th September 2019, at DSEI, the worlds largest defence exhibition, PELA Systems is launching its latest sensor integration platform –PELAmesh. Designed and manufactured in the UK, PELAmesh offers a remote scene assessment capability like no other....