Army can now enter NBC zone safely

The indigenous vehicle, developed by Ahmednagar-based Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) in collaboration with Pune-based Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) and three other Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) labs, will be a self-contained vehicle fitted with a robotic arm to scoop out soil and other samples and record air samples.

It will function in a ‘hood down’ sealed mode to ensure crew safety from nuclear radiation, chemical attacks and biological agents. Once the vehicle returns from the contaminated area, the samples will be transferred to a mobile laboratory (already developed by DRDO) to analyse the ‘threat level’.