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From: cottleta@b11.ingr.com (Tim Cottle)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: German NBC vehicles
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.231515.3507@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 23:15:15 GMT
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From: cottleta@b11.ingr.com (Tim Cottle)
In article <1991Feb12.014901.10398@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes:

>  It is an NBC version of the TPz1.  
>
>  The vehicle carries portable M1 Chemical Agent Monitors and an AN/VDR-2
>  radiation monitor.  It also pulls a pair of surface sampler wheels and has
>  an air sampler.  The CAM can detect low levels of both nerve and blister
>  agents and can differentiate between the two.  Traces picked up by the
>  vehicle's own sensors are analyzed immediately by an on-board spectrometer.
>  They can mark contaminated areas and transmit warnings to nearby units.

An interesting note:  due to the cofiguration of the externally mounted and
serviced surface sampler wheels and air sampler, left-handed persons are
preferred for the job of NBC operator.  The units are serviced by a glove box-
type mechanism mounted on the right side of the vehicle (rear view, facing),
necessitating the NBC operator to be turned facing the rear of the Fox, changingsampler wheels and air sampler screens, and dropping marker flags with his
left hand.  This was reported in a segment last week on the Fox shown on (if I
remember properly) the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

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