Environmental Assessment of Small Arms Live Firing: Study of Gaseous and Particulate Residues

Abstract

Small arms training is an important military activity of the Canadian Forces and the U.S. Army, and contributes to the accumulation of residues on the training areas. In the present work, the amount of unburned energetic residues deposited per round was estimated for five calibers (9 mm, 7.62 mm, 5.56 mm, 0.50 and 0.338) and nine weapons (Browning and Sig Sauer pistols, rifle C7, carabine C8, machine guns C6, C9 and M2HB, and rifles McMillan and Timberwolf).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 21, 2011
Accession Number
ADA582179

Entities

People

  • D. Faucher
  • Eugenia Díaz-Giménez
  • I. Poulin
  • Michael R. Walsh
  • S. Brochu

Organizations

  • DRDC Valcartier

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Explosives
  • Guns
  • Information Operations
  • Machine Guns
  • Marine Systems (Military)
  • Particulates
  • Propellants
  • Small Arms
  • Training
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.