AFLCMC tests CPC CONEX at Yokota

Credit: Yasuo Osakabe | Date Taken: 03/24/2022
Members with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s, Air Force CBRN Defense Systems Branch (AFLCMC/WNU) test their new equipment, called “Collective Protective CONEX or ColPro CONEX” prototype at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Mar. 24, 2022. The CPC is a 40-foot ISO container outfitted with air-handling and other equipment that can be carried aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. The test evaluated the heavily modified and instrumented conex’s airlock functionality, clean-air requirements, purge rates, leakage tests and overall ability to withstand in a biologically and chemically contaminated environment.