Surveillance/Environmental Test of Grenade, Hand, Riot, CS, M7A3.
Abstract
This test was conducted by the U.S. Army Arctic Test Center, Fort Greely, Alaska; Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona; Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland; and the U.S. Army Tropic Test Center, Fort Clayton, Canal Zone. Testing was conducted for approximately 5 years at each site. To determine the effect of long-term environmental storage on the M7A3 grenade. At the desert and temperature sites, the performance of the grenade met all the desired requirements and did not change significantly during the 5 years of storage. At the arctic site, the ignition lag time was observed to be significantly greater at the end of 5 years of storage. Excessive smoke emission time (time smoke was emitted under pressure) was observed during all tests conducted at the arctic and tropic sites; however, the length of emission time did not appear to change with increase of storage time.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0907916
Entities
People
- D. R. Zylstra
- W. A. Brown