CBRN
Elements of the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation and the Presidential Anti-Organised Crime Commission discovered unlicensed radioactive materials and substandard steel products during a raid of the Mighty Steel Plant manufacturing facility in Davao City on Friday 14 August. According to various Philippine sources, a technical examination conducted
Electronic Countermeasures
A full version of this article was originally published here by Thales on 10 March 2026. At the turn of the century, remotely controlled IEDs littered routes and roadsides throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. These asymmetric and indiscriminate weapons exacted a devastating cost in human lives and, despite only costing hundreds
Exercises & Events
United States 1st Marine Logistics Corps marines have conducted the first CBRN exercise using immersive virtual reality and alternate reality technologies within the Marine Corps CBRN community. At an exercise at Camp Pendleton on 11 August 2026, marines practised reconnaissance, hazard identification and exploitation procedures using simulated contaminants during a
EOD/IEDD
Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir busted a militant hideout in the Draba area of Poonch district on Saturday 15 August, recovering six improvised explosive devices, ammunition and communication equipment. According to Indian officials per multiple online outlets, a joint operation was launched by the Indian army’s 16 Rashtriya
Exercises & Events
A three-day CBRN hospital preparedness workshop is scheduled to take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 15-17 September 2026. According to information published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the workshop is being organised by the WHO's regional office for Europe in collaboration with the Health Emergency
EOD/IEDD
Pakistan’s army has reported that eight militants and three civilians were killed on the morning of Wednesday 12 August when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated as it was being prepared in the Surab district of the southwestern Balochistan provice. Per Arab News, the military’s media wing
Exercises & Events
US soldiers and airmen, together with the Georgia National Guard, conducted a joint medical readiness exercise at Fort Stewart, on 9-10 August 2026. According to information published by DVIDS, the exercise was a collective training event between elements of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 201st Regional Support Group
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Gov & Industry
The United States' Department of Defense's Joint Project Manager for CBRN Medical - itself a component of the Capability Program Executive for CBRN Defense - has announced that it has equipped the Joint Force with a critical defence against nerve agent attacks. In an article published on DVIDS, they
Gov & Industry
The Finnish producer of CBRNe situational awareness solutions, Observis, has announced that Mervi Ryynänen will join the company as CEO on 7 September 2026. In a press release published on their website 13 August, Observis wrote that Mervi Ryynänen "brings more than 25 years of international leadership experience in
EOD/IEDD
More than a dozen Somali army personnel were reportedly killed on Monday 10 August when a military truck carrying troops was struck by an improvised explosive device near the town of Mubarak in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region, near the capital of Mogadishu. According to an article published by
CBRN
A 10-year-old girl found a small, rust-coloured disk on Delaware's Broadkill Beach that was eventually discovered to be marked with the words "RADIOACTIVE POISON INSIDE", triggering a major hazardous materials response. According to an article published by Delaware Online on 12 August, Everleigh