Bigeye Bomb: Unresolved Development Issues

Abstract

This report developments in the Bigeye weapon program entitled Bigeye Bomb: Unresolved Developmental Issues. The Senate Appropriations Committee report on the fiscal year 1987 Department of Defense (DoD) appropriations bill requested that DoD submit a report on four outstanding Bigeye concerns involving (1) problems of excessive pressure buildup, (2) the generation of lethal agent, (3) agent flashing (or burning), and (4) the overall reliability of the weapon. In December 1986, your staff asked us to review the DoD report when it became available and to report to you on it, as well as on other related Bigeye bomb issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 11, 1989
Accession Number
ADA211508

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Autoignition
  • Comptrollers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Equations
  • Field Tests
  • High Temperature
  • House Of Representatives
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Lethality
  • Munitions Testing
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.