Russian Biological and Chemical weapons

OPCW chief to attend closing of Russian chemical weapons destruction facility

The Maradykovo facility has stored more than 40,000 air bombs and missile warheads stuffed with mixtures of toxic agents, which made up 17.4% of all Russian chemical weapons stockpiles

KIROV, October 30. /TASS/. The Maradykovo chemical weapons storage and destruction facility in Russia’s Kirov Region, 1,000 km east of Moscow, will be officially closed in the town of Mirny on Friday. Since 1953, this facility has stored more than 40,000 air bombs and missile warheads stuffed with mixtures of toxic agents, which made up 17.4% of all Russian chemical weapons stockpiles.

In September 2006, the full-scale disposal of chemical weapons was launched at the facility. Over the years since then, such substances as sarin, soman, mustards-lewisite mixture, in particular, have been destroyed.

After the closure the facility will undergo rehabilitation and will be reorganised for the manufacturing of civilian products.

The decommissioning ceremony will be attended by Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu, as well as Russian presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District, Chairman of the State Commission on Chemical Disarmament, Mikhail Babich, representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, ambassadors of several countries to the OPCW.

On Wednesday, Uzumcu told TASS that OPCW had no doubts that Russia would complete the destruction of its chemical weapons stocks by 2020. He said that initially all countries that possessed chemical weapons were supposed to dispose of their stocks of toxic agents by April 29, 2012. But that did not happen due to technical and financial problems. After consultations with the OPCW member states, the OPCW decided to prolong the deadline until 2020. Russia pledged to dispose of all chemical warfare agents by 2020.

This year, Russia has finished work at four chemical weapons disposal plants: Leonidovka (the Penza region); Pochep (the Bryansk region); Maradykovo (the Kirov region) and Shchuchye (the Kurgan region). Russia has shut down the first two plants.

Mr. Ahmet Uzumcu, who is paying a visit to Russia, will attend a ceremony of closing the Maradykovo facility on October 30, while a facility in the Kurgan region will shut down on November 20. After that, a facility in Kizner will remain the only chemical weapons disposal plant in Russia that will be operational after 2015. Uzumcu is sure that Russia which has already destroyed more than 91% of its chemical weapons stocks will complete the process successfully by 2020.

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is the basic document of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which bans production, development, possession and use of chemical weapons. Signatory states undertake a commitment to declare and destroy their arsenals of chemical weapons and their production facilities. The process is carried out under strict international control.

Russia signed the convention in January 1993 having declared about 40,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents. Chemical weapons destruction is Russia started in December 2002. "About 36,000 tonnes of toxic chemical agents, or more than 91% of Russia’s aggregate arsenals, have already been destroyed," chairman of Russia’s state commission on chemical disarmament, Mikhail Babich, said in September 2015.

Russia destroyed stockpiles of chemical warfare agent Zoman

In Udmurtia at the facility for the storage and destruction of chemical weapons "Kizner" destroyed all stored in the territory of Russia stockpiles of a chemical poisonous substance such as zoman. This is reported by the public relations group of the Federal Administration for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons.

"Thus, to date, Russia has completely got rid of the poisonous substances of the skin-blistering action of mustard gas and organophosphorus soman. In all, 1395.1 tons of ash stored in more than 520,000 ammunition were destroyed at the Kizner facility," the official Message.

In addition, Colonel-General Valery Kapashin , head of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, said that at the moment, 97 percent of the total stockpiles of chemical weapons have been destroyed in Russia. Completely neutralized poisoning substances in six of the seven established facilities for the destruction of chemical weapons. The possibility of Russia's early fulfillment of its international obligations under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction has been worked out, and therefore, the complete destruction of chemical agents is possible in the autumn of 2017. "Today we are guided - even one iota of no doubt - this is October 24," - said Valery Kapashin. At the same time, he noted that reducing the deadlines for the destruction of chemical weapons will not affect the quality of industrial and environmental safety.

Zoman is a gas of the family of organophosphorus poisonous substances of nerve agent. It was first synthesized in Germany in 1944 for use as a chemical warfare agent. Zoman is designed to destroy the enemy's manpower by infecting the atmosphere with steam and aerosol, and also for infecting the terrain and objects located on it with a drip-liquid substance. Poisoning zomanom occurs with any method of penetration into the body. Zoman has a deadly nerve-paralytic effect. According to the degree of exposure to the organism, zoman refers to extremely dangerous harmful substances and is more toxic than sarin more than 2.5 times.

Russia destroyed all the reserves of sarin

In Russia, the destruction of the stockpiles of the fighting poison sarin has been completed, Colonel-General Valery Kapashin, head of the department for the safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons, told Interfax.

- The destruction of sarin ended on June 12 at 1.00 Moscow time. Previously, Russia had already destroyed all available supplies of mustard gas and ashman, "Kapashin said.

Destruction of stocks of chemical warfare agents (DU) is carried out within the framework of Russia's obligations under the international convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons. These works began in 1998. Shells and tanks with sarin, zoman, mustard gas, phosgene, V-gas and other BWA-all about 40 thousand tons-were collected in seven arsenals in the Bryansk, Kirov, Kurgan, Penza, Saratov regions and the Republic of Udmurtia. There, on modern equipment using Russian technology, combat chemistry is turned into conventional chemistry: under the supervision of foreign experts, they decompose into ingredients such as acids and ammonia.

- To date, Russia has destroyed 98.9 percent of the stockpile of poisonous substances, 39.5 thousand tons. Liquidation of chemical weapons is planned to be fully completed in 2017, - continued Kapashin.

Now the work continues only at the Kizner facility in Udmurtia.

Zarin is a nerve agent, liquid without color and odor, it mixes well with water and organic solvents. Created in Germany on the eve of the Second World War, sarin was in service with the USSR and the United States.

This is an amazing document from 1993. It is part of the 'what can we do to turn Soviet tanks into plowshares' plan back then with interviews with key players..

It came to my notice re the recent poisoning in England being blamed on Novichok and Russia. In it is a translated interview with one of the creators of Novichok agents from 1993. Found in a JPRS report available through DTIC.

I can't cut and past as its a pdf that also takes a bit of time to load. You need pages 18/19/20. This is one para



http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a333126.pdf

The rest of it is equally interesting on a whole range of topics.

Would be amusing if they isolated Russian genetics and created a virus that rendered all Russians sterile... and then someone reversed it so it made all non Russians sterile... and in one generation the US has doomed us all...


Of course the real people in power in the west are the 1% and they would love some sort of depopulation system to reduce the human population without destroying buildings or resources or food crops etc etc.

Nuclear war is too messy and too destructive... chem or bio weapons are way more suitable to their needs...

As of April 2018 Russia destroyed 100% of its chemical weapons.

"The basis of the Troops of RChBD is realised by multifunctional separate brigades of RChBD having in their composition subunits capable to perform all activities of RChBD.
The main tasks of the Troops of RChBD include:

• identification and assessment of radiological, chemical and biological environment, scales and effects of damages of objects hazardous radiatively, chemically and biologically;
• protection of formations and units against the nuclear effects of mass destruction weapons and radiological, chemical and biological contamination;
• reducing the visibility of troops and facilities;
• disaster (damage) recovery in objects hazardous radiatively, chemically and biologically;
• causing loss to the enemy by using flame-incendiary means."

FULL: http\://eng.mil.ru/en/structure/forces/ground/structure/rhbz.htm

BMO-T Russian heavy APC


Chemical Troops Of Russia 2015 | Войска РХБЗ России 2015






Heavy thermobaric "flamethrowers"

In 2001, the improved TOS-1A system entered service. The improved system's range has been extended to 6 kilometers and its ballistic computer has been upgraded.
In 2018, Russian chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protection troops (RKhBZ) received 30 TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Sunburn) 220 mm multiple rocket launchers.