Display of a New Mobile Decontamination Platform

The Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin visited today members of the 246th CBRN Battalion in the “Car Lazar” barracks in Kruševac and attended the presentation of a mobile decontamination platform, a new vehicle that is being tested by this battalion.

On that occasion, Minister Vulin said that CBRN units are being equipped and prepared for providing assistance to civilian authorities wherever and whenever it is needed, and additionally the Serbian Armed Forces will be ready in terms of staff and in material and technical sense, for any challenge that they may face.

The mobile decontamination platform was developed by the Military Technical Institute and its zero series has been tested by the 246th CBRN Battalion since 24 September.

With the integration and development of the mobile decontamination platform, the Serbian Armed Forces has gained a vehicle that can replace five other vehicles and devices — decontamination tanker, water tanker, fire engine, Rosenbauer fire fighting pump and the Sanijet decontamination device.

The decontamination platform is intended for CBR decontamination of people, weapons and equipment including aircraft, artillery weapons and vehicles whose height exceeds three metres, and it can also be used for pumping water out of flooded areas, battlefield decontamination and firefighting.