Surveillance/Environmental Test of Grenade, Hand, Riot, CS, M7A3.

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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zylstra, D. R., Brown, W. A.
Other Authors: DESERET TEST CENTER FORT DOUGLAS UT
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1972
Subjects:
Chemical
Biological and Radiological Warfare
(*CS AGENTS
GRENADES)
ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS
STORAGE
PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)
DISTRIBUTION
EFFICIENCY
VISUAL INSPECTION
ACCEPTABILITY
PACKAGING
GRENADE FUZES
FAILURE(MECHANICS)
THERMAL STRESSES
SMOKE
VISIBILITY
IGNITION LAG
TRANSPORTATION
HANDLING
ARCTIC REGIONS
TROPICAL TESTS
DESERT TESTS
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
M-7A3 GRENADES
M-7 GRENADES
SHELF LIFE
Arctic
Clayton
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0907916
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0907916
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Summary: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.

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