Signaling Colored Smoke Grenades (SCSG) (Navy)
Abstract
A successful FCT will provide the United States Marine Corps (USMC) with a family of signaling colored smoke grenades for procurement and immediate fielding to the Warfighter. SCSG is a joint-project with Army, and the USMC is the lead. This is a two year project under sponsorship of the FCT and Marine Corps Systems Command, Program Manager Ammunition. Projected testing completion date will be FY 2011. The primary outputs and efficiencies to be demonstrated in the FCT are: (1) readily producible and cost efficient Green/Yellow/Red/Violet/White colored smoke grenades to meet operational requirements for ground-to-air and ground-to-ground signaling; (2) improvements for increased smoke duration, safer initiation system by reducing flame height, decreased smoke toxicity, more environmentally friendly components, reduced weight, Insensitive Munitions compliance, and denser smoke to enhance visual recognition from long distances; (3) increased availability for training purposes; and (4) avoid RDT&E and procurement costs of $0.853 million and $3.300 million while providing a Return on Investment (ROI) of 10:1.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 1da70cebe723351e2f1c39e0189c6439