TRAINING
Main: Swedish soldiers wearing CBRN kit taking part in Exercise Cold Response 12.
Bottom leſt : An illustration of the AWR system’s capability.
Bottom right: Soldiers taking part in RECCEX 12 equipped with the PlumeSim CBRN training simulators.
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hazards, and the system’s open architecture allows them to be plugged in and out as demanded by customer requirements or by operational needs. Sensors can be mounted statically or on a vehicle in a
roof-mounted container that can house up to eight of them. The container is hardened against electromagnetic pulse and high-power microwave. One of the challenges was to design a housing that provides protection for the sensors, but also allows the sensitive equipment to operate. As an alternative, sensors can be carried by individual soldiers linked in to the BMS to automatically report detailed local CBRN data as they move around battlespace. Ruggedised computers allow sensors to be continuously
monitored, and show warning alerts. The computers can be connected through the BMS to a CBRN specialist, who can remotely analyse the returns in detail. By linking various operators and sensors through the BMS, a wide-area CBRN picture can be built up, and the system enables the data to be cross-matched from diff erent types of sensors for a more accurate appraisal of the potential threats. As part of Saab’s extensive CBRN/toxic industrial material
(TIM) portfolio, the company has developed a rapid sampling set for use by military and civil emergency fi rst responders. It can sample liquids, soil, powder, objects and vegetation. The kit comes in a hardened suitcase and contains the necessary equipment and tools to collect samples and document them. During 2013 SkyddC is scheduled to take part in eight command post exercises (CPX) and four live exercises (LIVEX). CBRN is integrated within the fi eld of work of the Swedish armed forces during some of these exercises while others are exclusively devoted to CBRN operations. The fi nal exercises of the EU battle group will have taken place in the UK between 28 April and 18 May. The Swedish element
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will be under readiness from July until the end of the year, prepared to act within the framework of the European Union. RECCEX 13 will take place at the end of September and this year will be conducted in Denmark. It will involve a combined Nordic unit that will assist Danish authorities within a crisis scenario. The Swedish contribution will be a part of the First CBRN Company. CBRN Winter exercise will be held
at the end of the year with the Swedish armed forces operating in co-operation with Swedish Customs in the southern part of the country, in the vicinity of the capital, Stockholm, in winter conditions. Exercise Sea Eagle will be a separate radiological exercise to be conducted in an area just north of Stockholm when the First CBRN Company and some CBRN staff offi cers from SkyddC are scheduled to participate. ❚❙
“To participate in these types of exercises is very important in order to validate our capability within the area of CBRN. Therefore we will continue to conduct this sort of training as much as our resources allow us to do so.”
Lt Col Lars Levander, Chief of Staff of the Swedish National CBRN Defence Centre in Umeå
Jonas Bloom/SkyddC Argon
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