During the recent hostilities in Iraq, Federal Fabrics-Fibers AirBeam supported CBPS has proven itself at forward-deployed field hospital.
Highly mobile, chemically and biologically protected, environmentally controlled work area for forward deployed medical treatment units. The CBPS allows the unit to continue patient care when the unit comes under chemical or biological attack.
CBPS consists of a dedicated M1113 Humvee vehicle; a lightweight multipurpose shelter, a 300-square-foot semi-cylindrical AirBeam-supported soft shelter, stored and mounted on the back of the Humvee for transporting; and a towed high-mobility trailer with 10-kilowatt tactical quiet generator for auxiliary power. Unit soldiers can configure multiple systems to provide a single chem-bio protected area.
The CBPS has separate entrances for ambulatory and litter patients. Each entrance is an airlock which forces out any lingering contaminated air from soldiers entering the shelter. Patients and personnel are decontaminated before they get to the CBPS, and the tent remains pressurized when operating in a contaminated area.
A single CBPS system can be inflated in four minutes and fully operational in less than 20 minutes. All power is provided by the Humvee engine or from the auxiliary generator. A hydraulically powered environmental support system on the front of the shelter provides heating, cooling, AirBeam inflation, chemical-biological filtration and ventilation air. Multiple systems can be complexed.
CBPS is now being fielded to line-battalion treatment squads (aid stations), division/corps medical companies and forward surgical teams, including some units supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- Type of Shelter: Hybrid - Rigid Wall and Pressurized Airbeam supported.
- NSN: 5410-01-441-8054
- Purpose/Use: Provide contamination free, environmentally controlled work area for battalion aid situation BAS) and division clearing station (DCS)
- Dimensions (tent): 18'10" L x 18'8" W x 10' H
Floor Area (Air supported tent): 300 Ft3
- Erection: 4 soldiers / 20 Minutes
- Includes insulation liner
- 44,000 BTU/hr cooling, 60,000 BTU/hr heating
- Consists: LMS mounted on heavy HMMWV, AirBeam supported soft shelter, and high mobility trailer with 10kW tactical quiet generator
- Transports four-person medical crew with gear and all medical equipment.
- Direct replacement for M51 Chemically Protected Shelter
