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NATO AEP-7 Document Information:
Title
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Defence Factors in the Design, Testing and Acceptance of Military Equipment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Publication Date:
Sep 1, 2000
Scope:
This Allied Engineering Publication (AEP) provides the materiel
acquisition community with design guidelines, acceptance test procedures
and acceptance criteria for designing military equipment. These
guidelines are provided to ensure that materiel used on the battlefield
can be operated by personnel in a protective posture and will survive in
a Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) atmosphere should it occur. This
publication is also provided to offer information regarding the impact
of decontamination on design and materials. These guidelines do not
dictate requirements for the layout, configuration or construction of
military equipment nor for the selection of materials to be used for
that equipment. Rather, it is aimed at familiarizing the designer of
military equipment with the peculiarities of NBC warfare, so as to
enable him to take the proper actions in choosing designs and materials.
NBC Contamination survivability (NBCCS) is defined as the capability of
a system and its crew to withstand an NBC-contaminated environment,
including decontamination, without losing the ability to accomplish the
assigned mission. This AEP is not concerned with the initial effects of
nuclear weapons as this is discussed in AEP-4. This AEP does however
pertain to contamination by radioactive deposits and the effects of
neutron induced radioactivity as well as concerns pertaining to
contamination by low level radiation (LLR). Because biological
contamination is not known to damage equipment its effects are not
addressed. This AEP makes the assumption that the decontaminants and
methods used for removing chemical warfare (CW) contamination will also
remove biological contamination and to some extent contamination from
nuclear fallout. Therefore, the primary focus of this discussion will
be CW contamination. This AEP does distinguish among test acceptance
criteria and test procedures for N, B, and C contamination. Also of
great concern is the possible presence of Toxic Industrial Materials
(TIMs) and Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIMs) on the modern battlefield.
While these particular aspects of modern warfare can not be ignored, the
procedures described herein for NBCCS should be comprehensive enough to
deal with these contingencies.
NBCCS will be stated as essential characteristics in appropriate
requirements documents and used to design and test the survivability of
mission essential equipment under development. Once applied to a
developmental piece of equipment, these criteria will be modified only
upon consideration of proven economic, technical, and/or operational
reasons.
These criteria are engineering design criteria intended for use only in
a developmental setting. They do not define doctrine or operational
criteria for decontamination, establish protection criteria, provide
guidelines on how to achieve the required survivability, establish test
protocols, or specify survivability in training environments.
Finally, redundancy and resupply items cannot be the reason for ignoring
hardening measures because these items may also become contaminated.
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