Hatehof unveils new nuclear/bio-chemical division
Armoured vehicle manufacturer Hatehof has launched a nuclear, biological and chemical division. It offers fully encased vehicles (command and control, chemical reconnaissance, and decontamination) which can all be customised.
With the command and control vehicle, a team is dispatched to an incident’s location to manage the scene. Hatehof’s Wolf type vehicle incorporates a hermetically sealed hyperbaric chamber with systems for incident location designation and advanced communications, to name a few.
The chemical recon vehicle is responsible for detecting and identifying chemical contamination sources. A Sniffer type vehicle based on the Wolf provides maximum protection for the crew. It is armored, has a cased and sealed hyperbaric chamber container, and off-road capability. This configuration offers air and ground sampling equipment with a sterile cell for the samples, advanced communications, systems for imaging and data transmission to the command and control team, and a host of accessories for crew protection.
The decontamination configuration will be presented at Hatehof’s booth onboard a Girit type vehicle. It functions, however, as an independent container that can be installed onboard a flatbed truck in emergencies. This type of deployment frees the trucks to function as intended at all other times. The container configuration offers the added advantage of operating as a stand alone unit, independent of a vehicle altogether, when decontaminating a stationary source. Hatehof’s decontamination unit includes a water tank, a specialized elevator for loading decontamination materials, a purpose built system for mixing water and decontamination chemicals, and a decontamination hoses system up to heights of 50 meters. Additional benefits offered by the system include decontamination in high elevations, along traffic arteries, and for population decontamination.
Hatehof manufactures a range of purpose designed protected and armored vehicles for customers worldwide, including the IDF. The company’s vehicles offer various levels of STANAG protection according to their weight and intended use requirements. Hatehof’s line of 4x4 vehicle solutions range from a 4 ton Special Forces light vehicle to heavily armored 18 ton vehicles with highly customizable applications that include armored emergency vehicles with ballistic and mine protection, ambulances, riot control vehicles, NBC decontamination containers, fire trucks, LIC (Low Intensity Combat) protected vehicles search and rescue and many others.