The NBC School takes part in the NATO Warning Reporting exercise

(To Army Majority State)
17/12/18

The Center of Excellence for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (CBRN) of NATO in Vyskov (Czech Republic), in the period 11 - 13 December 2018, organized the exercise called "Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Warning & Reporting - Information Exchange ". The purpose of the activity was to test the ability of the National Military Centers, which are part of the NATO CBRN Incident Observation and Reporting Network in Europe, to exchange information on the spread of contamination of biological, chemical and radiological substances.

In addition to the Italian CBRN Area Control Center (ACC), which was part of the Inter-force School for NBC Defense, also the Romanian one - activity coordinator - Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovakian and Hungarian took part in the exercise.

For the national component, in addition to the ACC, also the Zone Control Center (ZCC) - Army Situation Room, the Collection Centers (CC) of the Northern Operational Forces Command, the Southern Operational Forces Command, the Command in Chief of the Naval Squad and the Air Squad Command, as well as the Sub Collection Centers (SCC) of the 7th NBC Regiment of the EI, the Air Operations Command, the 3rd, 6th and 36th Stormo of the Air Force.

During the training days a number of incidents were simulated, with particular reference to cross-border events, related both to the explosion of military devices, and to the escape - accidental or voluntary - from factories and / or civil installations, with the objective to verify the capacity of the Centers to elaborate and evaluate the areas of foreseen contamination, for a rapid exchange of information between neighboring countries.