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The Army is set to get its first armoured reconnaissance vehicle designed to enter nuclear, biological and chemical NBC environment and bring back samples to gauge contamination.
The tracked NCB recce vehicle, based on the amphibious BMP II armoured personnel carrier, will be equipped to enter any hostile terrain to bring samples from the contaminated area to a mobile laboratory for analysis.
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 8216;hood down8217; 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 8216;threat level8217;.
