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November 13 - Day of the Chemical Corps

13 ноября – День войск радиационной, химической и биологической защиты | November 13 - Day of the Chemical Corps.

November 13 - Day of the Chemical Corps

Every year since 2006, on November 13 Russia celebrates the Day of Chemical Corps.

As part of the ongoing modernization of the armed forces and innovations in environmental legislation and the upcoming Year of Ecology recall the employees of these troops. They participated in the aftermath of the explosion of the Chernobyl NPP, and at the present time are sent to the Syrian city of Aleppo, a survivor of the chemical attack.

Annual training and methodological support teaching skills for Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons services. In May 2016 exercises were held on the basis of the military unit 35776 Kambarka. In early August, the teaching was carried out in five military range. The exercise improved their training more than three thousand troops, 775 units of equipment were involved 10 aircraft.

The service provides the radiation, chemical and biological security for the political and sporting events, research and development work on the creation of means and methods of protection against NBC contamination. The service monitors the fulfillment of the requirements of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Convention prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons.

Modernization of troops should be completed in 2020 (Presidential Decree of May 7, 2012 № 603).

This year completed delivery of reconnaissance vehicles RHM-6; smoke machines TDA-3, machines for special treatment, such as \ station ARS-14km. Procured funds complexes for aerosol disinfection KDA and universal station special treatment USSO, optical instruments, communications equipment. Kazan Chemical Research Institute in 2017 will develop under the state order battle suit of chemical and biological protection.

All the soldiers of the Russian army provided with personal protective equipment. Chemical protection systems include overalls, boots, gloves, masks, tents, showers, self-contained source of oxygen analyzers, special treatment kits, infrared spectrometers, etc. Two types of suits of chemical and biological protection can be distinguished: gas-tight and gas permeable. Gas tight suits of chemical and biological protection create a barrier that protects against exposure to hazardous substances, and the gas-permeable suits are breathable and absorb moisture discharged from the body.

In this area WestMedGroup prepared to provide equipment of chemical and biological protection and transport isolator to isolate and transport patients.