What general requirements must material used to manufacture military explosives meet? - ANSWER-Must be cheap, plentiful, and not vital to any other phase of war effect
Brisance - ANSWER-The shattering or fragmentation effect
What is relatively small and sensitive initial component that begins...
What general requirements must material used to manufacture military explosives
meet? - ANSWER-Must be cheap, plentiful, and not vital to any other phase of war
effect
Brisance - ANSWER-The shattering or fragmentation effect
What is relatively small and sensitive initial component that begins the functioning of the
explosive train? - ANSWER-Primer
When a military explosive does not react with the metal that enhances it or with another
explosive, it is said to have what characteristic? - ANSWER-A natural compatibility
What is meant by explosive compatibility? - ANSWER-An explosives poisonous
characteristics
What is hydroscopicity? - ANSWER-The moisture-absorbing properties of an explosive
What is the auto combustion rate of low explosives? - ANSWER-A few inches per
minute to 1300 ft per second
What term do we use to describe the tendency of a substance to burn with a rapid and
sparkling combustion? - ANSWER-Deflagration
What condition is essential for an explosive to detonate rather than to merely
deflagrate? - ANSWER-It must be confined
What are the basic components of an explosive train? - ANSWER-Detonator, booster,
bursting charge
What are the four factors that control the visibility of pyrotechnics? - ANSWER-1.
Candlepower 2. Color 3. Weather 4. Light
What type of weather reduces the visibility range of pyrotechnics? - ANSWER-Moist,
weather, rain
How do we classify pyrotechnics? - ANSWER-
Which effect of a general-purpose bomb does the most damage: Blast or
Fragmentation? - ANSWER-Blast
What is the candlepower of the M127A1 ground illumination signal? - ANSWER-50,000
candlepower
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