Ammunition, Small Arms

Abstract

This report provides a method for evaluating small arms ammunition. It describes tests for fuzed and nonfuzed service ammunition including initial inspection, physical measurements, safety evaluation, fragmentation-lethality, accuracy and dispersion, time of flight, tracer evaluation, flash, smoke, waterproofness, salt-fog, temperature-humidity, sympathetic detonation, armor penetration, fungus, and human factors engineering. It also includes tests for physical and operational characteristics of blank and dummy ammunition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 1978
Accession Number
ADA056146

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Ammunition Testing
  • Cameras
  • Drop Tests
  • Explosive Trains
  • Explosives
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Ignition
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Munitions Testing
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Projectiles
  • Small Arms Ammunition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering