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File: 970107_apr96_decls13_0009.txt
Subject: DUSTY AGENTS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE PROTECTION
Unit: XVIII CORPS
Parent Organization: ARCENT
Box ID: BX000047
Folder Title: CHEMICAL INFORMATION
Document Number: 5
Folder Seq #: 35
,DOD AST-266OZ 055-88
27 January igaa
have similar guidelines. Warsaw Pact other Warsaw Pact armies have will-
soldiers train while wearing the CBR ingly borrowed from Western protec-
suit so as to become familiar with tive mask technology in fielding 6ew
the burdens it imposes. Although the protective masks, but none has adopt-
impermeable @it's performance is not ed the air-perm@ble CBR'suit. The
affected by wet weather and although paramount concern in the Warsaw Pact
the suit can be decoataminated and armies seems to be with the protec-
reused after ecposure to chemical tion level provided by the inner-
agent something not currently pos- meable suit, rather than with the
sible with the NATO overgarments), burden it imposes. Because au imper-
the field bath and laundry facilities meable suit relies on the generic
that are necessary to decontaminate principle of isolating @ soldier
individual ecuion,.enr add 'to the lc- from chemical or biological warfare
gistical burden of an army. Collec- (CoW) threats, it is less likely to
tive protection is available on many be defeated by a nonstandard or
Warsaw Pact armored personnel car- unforeseen agent.
riers, provi,-iin@ chemical protector
for some soldiers without the coa- How does the Drotectlon a2ainst dusc,7
tinuous need to wear the C:BR alents provided bv the a@De--meable
TO CBR suit COMDare with that Dro-
ber o@ offer I;arsaw Pact nations vided bF the impermeable suit used
clearly have the technical caLabil,t7 in the Warsaw Pact? (C)
to produce an air-per-,;7eable a-R suit,
all their solutions to the heat (C) There is a wide range of @-R
stress proble,@i. are based on ways to suit models in bothl the NA-TO and
reduce the time the 'soldier must wear Warsaw Pact inventories. Suit @r-
the suit rather than on improvements acteristics such as tie type of elo-
in the heat stress characteristics antes used or a one- versus t-.to-piece
of the suit itself. desiga can certainly affect overall
suit performance in a field e!iviro@
(S) 'rne apparent Warsaw Pac@ reluc- meat. However, the main difference
tance to abandon what the United betweea the NATO and Warsaw Fact
States and other NATO countries con- suits remains the impermeable versus
sider "aatiquated- CBR protection the air-permeable design.
technology is not reflected in other
aspects of individual chemical pro- (S) If percutaneous threat agents
tection. For example, the Soviets are evaluated as a function of parti-
have recently begun issuing an cle size, they cover a broad spectrum
improved version of the a tan@rd ranging from large liquid droplets
protective mask with improved com- of agent down to the molecular size
munication capabilities and reduced of vapors. intermediate-size par-
weight, and they are producing the ticles can be variously charac-
next-generation protective mask, terized as dusts, mists, smokes,
which has Improved visioa and liquid- fumes, or just p@, n aerosols.
intake capabilities. Furthermore, Figure 1 shows the barrier provided
ip,L)
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Box ID = BX000047
Unit = XVIII CORPS
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Folder Title = CHEMICAL INFORMATION
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Subject = DUSTY AGENTS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE P
Document Seq # = 5
Document Date =
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-JAN-1997