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A one-stop-shop where you’re in charge


Off-the-shelf is great but sometimes just not good enough. CBRNergetics is committed to its customers’ unique needs, providing bespoke products and holistic services that set it apart. We find out how this approach benefited one client that needed the capabilities of yesteryear for today’s operations.


hile the art of a good defence doctrine is often contained within established procedures, practices and protocols, the paradoxical reality is that seldom are two events the same. Each day is different, each operation brings its own risk, and very few engagements are replicas of those before them.


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This uniqueness must be matched by those supporting you: adaptability, understanding and good communication are the key ingredients of good partnerships. For UK-based CBRNergetics, these are its guiding principles. This leading global supplier of defence equipment for military, government and police forces lists the likes of the UK and US ministries of defence, Nato countries, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the UN, non-governmental organisations and an eclectic mix of companies among its clients.


artillery. The aim is to as closely simulate war as is possible in a training scenario, bringing “the sounds of chaos in conflict”, Catallo says. Away from battle simulation the company supplies niche defence products through complex supply chains, delivering custom-made solutions to meet customers’ challenging demands. Among them is what it calls the “complete demolitions train”, from initiation to detonation and deactivation to safe disposal. “This line of our business, demolition stores,” Catallo says, “is a loose category for plastic explosives and shaped charges; primarily equipment used mainly by combat engineers for things like EOD [explosive ordnance disposal] operations or destroying old ammo stocks, or in conflict zones destroying UXO [unexploded ordnance], and also by special forces.”


Renewing good old tech CBRNergetics is a global powerhouse in the manufacture and supply of explosive


“This line of our business, demolition stores, is a loose category for plastic explosives and shaped charges; primarily equipment used mainly by combat engineers for things like EOD.”


Bringing battle to life


Explaining CBRNergetics offers three distinctive lines of business, director Kevin Catallo says he and his colleagues are dedicated to providing equipment that meets demanding requirements by providing unique solutions. They include battle simulation and pyrotechnics – “anything that goes bang and boom”, as Catallo puts it – that dissimulate rifle fire, machine gun fire, grenades and mortars, right up to heavy


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charges, an area Catallo says he’s witnessed a notable increase in interest from customers in recent times. Products include the Charge Demolition Hayrick, often used for bridge demolition; the Bangalore Torpedo; the Charge Demolition Beehive (named so because it looks like an inverted cone); the Rapid Crater Kits Mark 2; and the Underwater Charges.


Comprising several different types, shaped charges have specific roles to


play – both in general use and among those the company manufactures. Revealing CBRNergetics recently began production of a few of its products for already secured contracts, and with expectations for further agreements throughout 2023, Catallo says the Rapid Crater Kits Mark 2 system is the latest to have gone through an update. “It’s kind of an old system,” he explains, “but we delivered the Rapid Crater Kits Mark 2 to a Nato country about two years ago. We’ve recently carried out further follow on training and demonstration in that country, for different groups of combat engineers, for the exact same product. It’s currently the newest and only version on the market.” The story has been around five years in the making, with the first enquiry for the kit from the Nato partner made in 2018. It also perfectly illustrates CBRNergetics’ ability to meet clients’ unique needs for bespoke products.


“They [the Nato country] asked about it because they had it listed as a requirement,” says Catallo. Used to demolish roads and runways, he loosely terms it “a Cold War era tool”, the likes that are becoming more relevant again thanks to current events in Eastern Europe. At the time, CBRNergetics had an older British MoD version with its specific capability. “We looked at that and thought ‘is there a better way to input the initiation consistent so it can all come in one package?’ We then updated the product – with the new initiation system and new shape charges – with modern manufacturing methods to make something better now than you could 50 years ago.”


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