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Originally published by https://spartanat.com/ The German Armed Forces have awarded a contract for 1,000 Zodiak-12 type NBC protective suits to the Austrian company J. Blaschke Wehrtechnik GmbH following a tender process . The contract is designed as a multi-year procurement project and will run until 2030. Delivery of the protective suits will take place in stages within this period. The two-p…

Originally published by France24 Israeli planes sprayed chemicals on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days and that they lost dozens of hectares of farmland. There have been similar reports of the Israeli Army spraying fields in southern Lebanon and of Israeli settlers doing the same in the West Ban…

Originanly published by Human Rights Research Center On Monday, March 9, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a news release accusing Israel of unlawfully deploying munitions containing white phosphorus, a dangerous chemical substance, over civilian homes in Lebanon. According to images verified and geolocated by HRW, artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions were…

Kromek, the leading developer of radiation detection technology and Argon Electronics, the foremost manufacturer of CBRN simulation systems, have collaborated to develop a dedicated simulator module for Kromek’s ground-breaking D5 RIID hand-held device. This new capability enables operators to conduct high-fidelity radiological search exercises without the need for live radiological sources, enh…

C3 Applied Tech (C3AT) has been awarded a Commercialization Grant from the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium to accelerate the development and integration of its TOXRail sensor onto Recon Robotics’ ThrowBot® 3 (TB3). TOXRail is a multi-gas detector with gamma radiation detection, and the grant will help C3AT move the combined system from prototype toward operational readine…

Orginally published in Newsguard What’s happening: Robert Malone, an anti-vaccine activist appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is resurrecting the long-debunked claim that Lyme disease is a U.S. government-engineered bioweapon, using what he called an “AI-driven investiga…

Rheinmetall and DOK-ING have advanced their strategic partnership in Zagreb by signing an agreement on the planned acquisition of a majority stake in the Croatian company DOK-ING, specialized in unmanned ground systems (UGV). Rheinmetall will acquire a 51% stake in the company founded in 1991, while the founder and sole owner to date, Vjekoslav Majetić, will retain the remaining 49%. Rheinmetall…

Avon Technologies plc is pleased to confirm that Avon Protection, our respiratory and integrated CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) protection business unit, has received a new order for ‘MILCF50’ CBRN filters from a Middle Eastern customer. The order is worth approximately $12.7 million. MILCF50 filters are designed for use with Avon Protection respirators, which are already…

NUVIATech Instruments recently announced they have delivered 21 CoMo surface contamination monitors, along with two Floor Bogeys-floor contamination survey systems, to a major Canadian Nuclear Utility. These instruments strengthen the site's radiological protection toolkit and accelerate day‑to‑day operations.  Nuclear operators face recurring challenges in contamination control. This delivery…

[From GxP News] The Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences plans to certify premises for the pilot production of Russia’s first smallpox drug, NIOKH-14. The drug, developed jointly with the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector, is also effective against mpox (monkeypox), the institute’s director, Elena Bagryanska…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Federal Security Service (FSB) to take tough measures to foil attempts at splitting Russian society and combat Russophobia. "A priority task for the Federal Security Service remains the fight against extremism. Significant results have been achieved in this area in recent years. We must continue to crack down on criminal activities of those who…

“Supporting the strategic deterrents of Europe’s two nuclear powers by providing the ability to disable the Russian BMD [Ballistic Missile Defence] system represents both a comparatively modest and strategically vital function for prompt strike capabilities.”    This is according to Conventional Prompt Strike in European Military Power, a new RUSI research report by Dr Sidharth Kaushal, which s…

— Blackline Safety Corp. (TSX: BLN), a global leader in connected safety technology safeguarding hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has expanded its services to protect a new class of workers – canines. The company has announced the first deployment of its GPS-enabled gas monitoring devices to Calgary-based K9 Leak Hunters, whose specially trained canine unit delivers precise and environm…