Insensitive munitions : a key aspect of improved munitions safety / Eric Deschambault, Patrick Touze and Duncan Watt
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Military Technology Vol 32 Issue 9, 2008, pp.58-65Summary: Accidental ignition of munitions has caused deaths, injuries, damage and expense: examples include fires on US aircraft carriers and an the ground during Desert Storm the latter event at Camp Doha, Kuwait, caused 59 casualties, loss of or damage to 160 vehicles, and cost $40 million; with IM the effects would have been restricted to a single vehicle. This article describes advances in insensitive munitions which are defined as those that operate normally as and when required but which burn rather than detonate as a result of impact, fire, or nearby explosion. Includes NATO definitions of Energetic Materials Responses.
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Accidental ignition of munitions has caused deaths, injuries, damage and expense: examples include fires on US aircraft carriers and an the ground during Desert Storm the latter event at Camp Doha, Kuwait, caused 59 casualties, loss of or damage to 160 vehicles, and cost $40 million; with IM the effects would have been restricted to a single vehicle. This article describes advances in insensitive munitions which are defined as those that operate normally as and when required but which burn rather than detonate as a result of impact, fire, or nearby explosion. Includes NATO definitions of Energetic Materials Responses.
NATO, MILITARY, TECHNOLOGY, USA
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