Bertin Environics Naval CBRN References

• Geopolitical situation – we have moved from the stable peaceful era to unstable political situation and world has witnessed that CBRN threat is still real and now even more relevant than during past few decades.
• Political conflicts around the globe increases the need to build more vessels and thus increases the need for CBRN equipment on those platforms. Even the areas and countries that earlier did not see the CBRN threat relevant are starting to prepare themselves for it.
• Rapid development and utilization of unmanned platforms enable even less capable groups to hit civilian and governmental naval targets with relatively low-cost equipment by using flying or unmanned surface vessels.
• Aging equipment – even the vessels with existing CBRN protection has faced a need to upgrade the equipment, because aging technologies.

In this transition Bertin Environics has been able to benefit from the growing need for CBRN monitoring in the maritime environment. Especially, recently introduced new product family, X-System, which has been specifically designed and tested according to naval requirements, has gained a big interest in the market.

Many European countries have woken into the need to upgrade the fleets, and  several countries are replacing their old vessels or expanding their fleets. Bertin Environics has been selected to be a CBRN monitoring system supplier in several European vessel projects.

One of the latest successes for Bertin Environics has been to be selected a system supplier for German Navy’s F126 frigate program. In addition to this major German project, Belgium and Netherlands have a co-project for building new Mine Counter Measure Vessels for their navies. Bertin Environics is a supplier for that program too. Being a Finnish company, Bertin Environics was very pleased to get contract to provide Finland’s new corvettes with comprehensive monitoring systems.

Other continents have been active also in equipping their new navy vessels with CBRN protection and monitoring system. In Asia Bertin Environics’ monitoring system has been selected for example to protect Philippine navy’s new frigates and corvettes. In North America, Canada selected Bertin Environics system for its new Joint Support Vessel protection. A new area for Bertin Environics naval systems was a contract to furnish Brasilian new Tamandare frigates with X-System monitoring capabilities. Several countries’ navies in the Middle East are also using now and in the becoming years Bertin Environics system.

In addition to navy vessels, Bertin Environics monitoring systems can be used also in other user groups. One of the organizations, who will be first on the scene in possible accidents on sea, are Coast Guard and their vessels need to be protected as well as naval ships. Bertin Environics was proud to provide Norwegian new Coast Guard vessels with the system.

Also, civil security organizations meet CBRN threats in their operations. Especially Fire Fighting and Rescue vessels need to enter the areas, where the crew may face hazardous agents and they need to be aware of the threat. In that field Bertin Environics has supplied systems to Singaporean and Hong Kong Fire and Rescue service’s vessels.

Future applications for the CBRN detection systems in maritime environment will be Unmanned Platforms. Autonomous and remote-controlled boats and flying platforms are natural choice to enter an area where the existence of hazardous agents is possible, without risking human health and life. Bertin Environics X-System supports perfectly unmanned use. Users can easily expand the vessel capability from simple chemical detection up to full scale CBRN monitoring system.

26 countries worldwide have already selected Bertin Environics’ CBRN monitoring systems to protect their Navy, Coast Guard or civil security vessels. 11 countries out of the 26 are members of NATO. The total number of the vessels which are either already using or are in the process to become users of Bertin Environics systems is almost 150 and over half of these vessels sails in the NATO countries fleets.

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