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Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents. The current range of stimuli are shock (from bullets, fragments and shaped charge jets), heat (from fires or adjacent thermal events) and adjacent detonating munitions.
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Bomb damage assessment has a number of objectives. The assessment will attempt to determine if the munition functioned properly and according to its design. An estimate will be made of the extent of physical damage (through munitions blast, fragmentation, and/or fire damage effects) to the target. This assessment is based upon observed or ...
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An example is the British World War II Fuze, Percussion, D.A., No. 233 [2] ('direct action') The primary explosive transmits its detonation to an explosive booster within the fuze, then in turn to the main charge of the shell. As an artillery shell lands with a considerable impact, the "soft" nose may be made robust enough to be adequately safe ...
There are also events of no safety relevance, characterized as "out of scale". [37] Examples: 5 March 1999: San Onofre, United States: Discovery of suspicious item, originally thought to be a bomb, in nuclear power plant. [38] 29 September 1999: H.B. Robinson, United States: A tornado sighting within the protected area of the nuclear power plant.
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Cluster bomb: Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb. Germany: General-purpose bomb: These bombs use thick metal as walls containing explosives such as Composition B or Tritonal. Glide bomb: A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces, aerodynamic devices that allow for control by the pilot. Guided bomb