SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AS A VECTOR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICAL RECONNAISSANCE DEVICES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63978/3083-6476.2025.3.3.07Keywords:
CBRN threats, long-range standoff CBR reconnaissance devices, chemical weapon agents, spectral analysisAbstract
Due to the acute toxicity and extreme lethality, yet the non-selective type of activity of CWA’s (chemical weapon agents) toward military targets and the civilian population, timely detection and identification of CWA’s is becoming an important element of modern war conflicts. Spectral analysis is employed in nowadays for the engineering of accurate and selective detection of chemical warfare weapons. An analysis of current trends in the development of remote sensing of CWA’s shows the NATO member states and the russian federation have already mastered and are continuing enhancement and modernization of the latest technologies for the development of weapons based on the laser radiation differential absorption spectroscopy (differential absorption LIDARS), Fouriertransformed infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy for the detection, identification, determination of concentration ranges for revealed CWA contaminated areas, linking them to corresponding geospatial data. The mentioned type of devices is capable of discrimination of main groups of CWA’s like nerve gases, blister substances, explosives as well as industrial toxic compounds at a range of as far as 6 km. The rich possibilities for detection of various industrial toxic substances using long-range stand-off chemical reconnaissance would contribute to increasing the situational awareness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units that perform combat (special) missions in the territories, where the main chemical industry objects of Ukraine are located. The effective counteraction to recent potential chemical threats depends on the accelerated research and development of the grounds of advanced analytical methods for detecting CWA’s, as well as the settling and development of cooperation with international professional partner organizations would significantly advance the capabilities of the design, scale up the production, move forward the enhancement and modernization of up-to-date chemical reconnaissance equipment.
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