Russian NBC Protection Troops

The Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence[1] of the Russian Armed Forces (Russian: Войска радиационной, химической и биологической защиты Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации (Войска РХБ защиты ВС РФ), romanized: Voyska radiatsionnoy khimicheskoy i biologicheskoy zashchiti Vooruzhyonn'kh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Voyska RKhB zashchiti VS RF)) are an organisation designed to reduce the losses of the Ground Forces and ensuring their combat tasks assigned during operations in conditions of radioactive, chemical and biological contamination, as well as at enhancing their survivability and protection against high-precision and other weapons.

Their main tasks include:[2] The NBC Protection Troops are organised for both conduct of hostilities using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and without them and includes: The NBCP Troops are developing as dual-purpose forces, able to solve tasks both in war and peace times, in the aftermath of accidents and disasters in industrial facilities hazardous radiatively, chemically and biologically.

Further build-up of their capacity is realized by creating a modern system to identify and assess the extent and effects of weapons of mass destruction, integrated with automated control systems of troops and weapons and stable functioning in the NBC threat environment and strong electronic countermeasures.

[2][7] The 395th Independent Test Aviation Squadron which supports the NBCP Troops is based at Bagay-Baranovka in Saratov Oblast.

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A UTM-80M heat treatment machine cleans a TOS-1 Buratino heavy flamethrower MLRS. NBC Protection Troops shock troops from the 27th Separate Brigade of NBC Protection, during training with the support of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units of the 20th Guards CAA, liberated the "captured" city in conditions of radiation contamination of the area.
Armored personnel carrier BTR-82A with troops in NBC suits. NBC Protection Troops shock troops from the 27th Separate Brigade of NBC Protection, during training with the support of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units of the 20th Guards CAA, liberated the "captured" city in conditions of radiation contamination of the area.
RPM-2 – radiological reconnaissance vehicle
Troops of the RKhBZ of the Russian army, parked at exercises
TDA-3 unit. An exercise in the Kursk region for the 27th separate brigade of the RKhBZ to eliminate the consequences of chemical contamination.