President Putin has set the task to involve in the fight against the pandemic coronavirus army resources. He reminded that our military already has such military doctors and specialists of biological protection are involved in combating the epidemic abroad in Italy and Serbia. According to the President, this experience should be used in our country.
Experts believe that the same forces of radiation, chemical and biological protection in modern emergency can be very useful to the country. In an interview with “MK” said a military expert, candidate of chemical Sciences Oleg Teltonika.
-we Have since the dawn of chemical weapons traditionally, much attention was paid to the development of troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection, – said the expert. – After the Second world war, when strongly affected our population, its protection from different weapons paid a lot of attention. Decades during the cold war, the army and the country was preparing to withstand a world war, if it still will unleash a potential enemy. It had accumulated a huge mobilization of resources and reserves, including in the event voyi with the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
We have sent to Italy and Serbia a few dozen machines for disinfection. The defense Ministry said that this is only a small fraction of what we have. Do we really have such reserves of this equipment? More than abroad?
-Yes, of course. Such reserves are necessary. Troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection are a part of uniform system of civil defence of the country. This, incidentally, is what the Soviet Union was traditionally rebuked. We were told: you develop these structures because always preparing for war. Yes, we were prepared. But for the defense and protection of the population. And now this experience is very useful to us.
Well, Serbia is a poor country close to us, and we helped her. But Italy is a developed, rich country of NATO. Unless the Alliance has no such opportunities as we do?
-it is not in scope. They without a doubt can make the same machine. They are the ordinary, almost like fire. No technological breakthroughs in their creation is not required. The issue in the approach: we know how to do it, but they don’t. Our military exercises very often practiced methods of decontamination and degassing equipment, protection of personnel, disinfection and decontamination of the area. So here is the experience that we have, and they do not because such a task before them is not even worth it.
-Unless NATO does not solve the tasks of protecting its own population?
NATO-as it turned out, it is a structure that does not take care of the interests of particular nation-States. Its main task is to support U.S. troops, wherever they were.
After the collapse of the Warsaw Pact the East European countries were included in the foreign military entity on the rights subservient to the polygons, a second-tier logistics, etc. and if you take now each of these countries separately, in military terms they are all flawed.
-But in this case it is about Italy – the best European country.
-This also applies to so-called “old” Europe. There is in each of the countries within NATO there is some specialization. For example, the massive armored contingents – it is primarily the United States, then Germany, a bit in the UK… But if Italy or Hungary this task has never been. That is, the ability of these countries greatly curtailed. Any complex logistic tasks are performed mainly by American troops.
Each time you encounter any crisis, there are mostly US troops. European countries only cheerfully support. And if the Americans do not participate, then self-Europeans to do almost anything and you can not.
-Now in the situation with coronavirus US were busy themselves, their problems, they were not up to Europe?
-you are Absolutely right. Common commands are not followed. As shown by COVID-19, all these “terrible” European structures NATO no independent strategy have not. No independent use, too. In addition to service U.S. troops to do anything they are not capable.
what our troops radiation, chemical and biological protection can make in terms of protecting the public from COVID-19?
-While the main objectives addressed by medicine, including the military. And quite effectively. While the task of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection is to be alert. If need be, they can cultivate the environment in which people. This is what we do in our specialists in Italy: preparing treatment rooms for patients, disinfection of surfaces, roads, buildings, cleaning of furniture, floors… everything which has any visible portions of the infected areas.
the solutions which are used for disinfection, indeed so effective that it kills all viruses? Harming the person they are not?
-the virus Itself is a fairly simple creature with a protein shell. Based on such nature, the main objective of disinfection is to provide the conditions for the destruction of its protein shell. The virus itself does not fly, only on drops of liquid, is, on some wet surfaces. That is, it must be washed off to where it will not get favorable environment to provide the conditions for its destruction. This can help even chlarkand. She’s not really going to kill him immediately, but he will create a chemically favorable conditions for the continued existence, after which the virus itself is gradually destroyed.
That is, if the virus to ensure the absence of media and the enabling environment, he will die. With this task, the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection can successfully handle.
MEANWHILE.
According to the defense Ministry, the specialists of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the 2nd combined arms army in the Volga region prepared special posts which automated the process of disinfection of vehicles, reducing the time for sanitary processing from two minutes to 30 seconds. These posts have already appeared on checkpoints in several garrisons in the Samara, Orenburg and Penza regions.
