CBRN defense and Related Topics

Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit

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The Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CJIRU) (Unité interarmées d'intervention du Canada, UIIC) of the Canadian Armed Forces was created "to provide timely and agile broad-based CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) support to the Government of Canada in order to prevent, control and mitigate CBRN threats to Canada, Canadians, and Canadian interests".

Canadian Special Operations Forces Command

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Command of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) crisis response

S6 NBC Respirator

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Protective gas mask issued to the British Armed Forces.

It's usually worn in conjunction with the NBC No. 1 Mk III CBRN protective suit.

Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation

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Reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with military products.

MKEK 155 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer T-155 Fırtına

MKE TAMGEÇ mine-clearing line charge system.

Rheinmetall MG 3 made by MKEK in Kırıkkale under license since 1974 for the Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish Gendarmerie.

The company's line of business includes the manufacturing of surgical appliances and supplies also CBRN masks and products, various masks are produced for the army and civilians.

Irish Army

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Land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland.

Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars pictured during the Civil War

Volunteer Force recruitment poster, 1930s

Irish ONUC troops (36 Bn) man a position over the Elizabeth road tunnel during the Congo Crisis, December 1961 (Image: Defence Forces)

Irish troops serving with UNIFIL in 2013

Two soldiers wearing ghillie suits for concealment while in sniper training

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) training

105mm L118 light gun crewed by the Artillery Corps (Army Reserve)

A member of an Irish Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team

Army parade (march past) with Steyr AUG service rifles in service dress

The RG Outrider, in use with the Irish Army in various roles

This includes more advanced training of everything covered by recruit training plus riot training, navigation, CBRN, helicopter drills, survival, FIBUA, ATCP training, live fire tactical training, etc. They also receive further weapons training on the M203 Grenade Launcher and Short Range Anti-Armour Weapon.

Army Reserve (Ireland)

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Airm) is the reserve land component of the Irish Defence Forces.

Army reservists on a training exercise in the Glen of Imaal carrying a FN MAG GPMG and a Steyr AUG assault rifle

A Sergeant from the Army Reserve leading a tactical exercise

Officers of the Army Reserve upon receiving their commission

All soldiers are taught to operate radio communications, map reading, CBRN warfare defence and the light machine gun, and can move on to courses such as reconnaissance ("recce course"), driving courses, Regimental Signallers course, Physical Training Leader and Specialist Instructor Course.

John Singer Sargent's iconic World War I painting: Gassed, showing blind casualties on a battlefield after a mustard gas attack

Chemical warfare

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Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons.

Fritz Haber is considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I.

A Swedish Army soldier wearing a chemical agent protective suit (C-vätskeskydd) and protection mask (skyddsmask 90)

Aerial photograph of a German gas attack on Russian forces circa 1916

Soviet chemical weapons canisters from a stockpile in Albania

Israel Defense Forces "Yanshuf" battalion soldiers at chemical warfare defense exercise

Members of the Ukrainian Army's 19th Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Battalion practice decontamination drill, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

Disabled children in Vietnam, most of them victims of Agent Orange, 2004

This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological warfare and radiological warfare, which together make up CBRN, the military acronym for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (warfare or weapons), all of which are considered "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs), a term that contrasts with conventional weapons.

Ammunition rigged for an IED discovered by Iraqi police in Baghdad in November 2005

Improvised explosive device

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Bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

This Cougar in Al Anbar, Iraq, was hit by a directed charge IED, approximately 90 –.

X-ray of a suitcase showing a pipe bomb and a laptop.

Improvised explosive device in Iraq. The concave copper shape on top defines an explosively formed penetrator/projectile

Artillery shells and gasoline cans discovered in the back of a pick-up truck in Iraq

A U.S. Marine in Iraq shown with a robot used for disposal of buried devices

Israeli IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer, which is used by the IDF Combat Engineering Corps for clearing heavy belly charges and booby-trapped buildings.

U.S. Marines with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) destroy an improvised explosive device cache in southern Afghanistan in June 2010.

A Stryker lies on its side following a buried IED blast in Iraq. (2007)

Oil-drum roadside IED removed from culvert in 1984

Wheelbarrow counter-IED robot on streets of Northern Ireland in 1978

Captured IEDs from a cache left behind by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Syria, 26 January 2019

The presence of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) material in an IED requires additional precautions.

Mobile Brigade Corps

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Special operations, paramilitary, and tactical unit of the Indonesian National Police (Polri).

A Brimob Headquarters in Pekanbaru, Riau

Gegana is tasked with carrying out more specific special police operations tasks such as: Bomb Disposal, CBR Handling (Chemistry, Biology, and Radioactivity), Anti-Terror (Counter Terrorism), and Intelligence.