Grenades

Abstract

Provides a method of evaluating the performance of hand-thrown and rifle-launched grenades. Discusses initial inspection and safety precautions. Includes tests for safety evaluation: performance, shock, vibration, and environmental; tests for accuracy and dispersion, arming distance, throwing range (hand grenades), ballistic characteristics, functioning, reliability, recoil and velocity measurements, armor penetration, muzzle flash, mud, frozen rain, frost and snow, bullet impact, sympathetic detonation, and graze impact sensitivity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1983
Accession Number
ADA126011

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arm Bones
  • Arming Devices
  • Data Analysis
  • Explosives
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Grenades
  • Hand Grenades
  • High Explosive Ammunition
  • High Explosives
  • High Temperature
  • Instrumentation
  • Munitions Testing
  • Performance Tests
  • Sympathetic Detonations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • ballistics.