Explosives And Ammunition

Front 1

Military explosives are divided into what
general classifications?

Back 1

High and low explosives

Front 2

Define brisance

Back 2

The speed at which an explosive develops its
maximum pressure

Front 3

Define hygroscopicity

Back 3

The tendency of a material to absorb moisture

Front 4

Define stability

Back 4

Explosives ability to remain unaffected by
storage conditions

Front 5

Define booster

Back 5

The intermediate charge that builds up the
initiating shock to obtain full detonation of
the burster charge

Front 6

The rate of detonation of is also known as
what?

Back 6

The explosives burning speed

Front 7

What type of explosive is contained in a weapon
with a yellow band around it?

Back 7

High explosives

Front 8

It is not feasible to use high explosives as a
propellant for what reason?

Back 8

The rate of detonation cannot be controlled

Front 9

The United Nations has organized hazardous
materials into different classes. From these
classes, the DOD used what total number?

Back 9

Three (3)L

Front 10

What is used to assist in the identification of
ammunition as to its use or explosive hazard?

Back 10

Color codes (e.g., Yellow/Brown)

Front 11

Of the following features – letter
designations, mark and mod, color codes, and
construction and shape, which is used to assist
in the identification of ammunition as to its
use or explosive hazard?

Back 11

Color codes

Front 12

What is the most sensitive component of the
explosive train?

Back 12

Primer

Front 13

The booster in a high explosive train serves
what purpose?

Back 13

It detonates the main charge

Front 14

Non-service ammunition is used for what
purpose?

Back 14

Training personnel

Front 15

Of the following types of ammunition – dummy
drill, service, practice, and captive carry,
which contains explosive material and is
intended for operational training?

Back 15

Practice

Front 16

Of the following types of ammunition - drill,
service, captive carry, and practice, which
contains explosive material used and is
intended for combat use?

Back 16

Service

Front 17

Ammunition used to develop assembly and
handling proficiency of loading crews is known
as what type of ammunition?

Back 17

Dummy/drill inert

Front 18

What are the types of non-service ammunition?

Back 18

Practice/training, dummy drill/inert, and
exercise/recoverable

Front 19

What ammunition is used to develop assembly,
testing, and handling proficiency without
actually firing or launching the ammunition?

Back 19

Dummy/drill inert

Front 20

You have installed the nose fuze in a bomb,
what is the order of the explosive train you
have just completed?

Back 20

Primer, detonator, booster, and main charge

Front 21

Describe the basic high explosive firing train
order?

Back 21

Firing pin, primer, detonator and booster

Front 22

Though no longer used as a propellant or
projectile bursting charge, black powder is
still used where?

Back 22

In ammunition and ammunition components

Front 23

Due to their similar deterioration
characteristics, rocket motors can be stowed in
the same magazine with what other type of
explosive?

Back 23

Ballistite

Front 24

What explosive is almost exclusively used as
the propellant for gun and rocket ammunition?

Back 24

Smokeless powder (Cordite N and Ballastite)

Front 25

Of the following items - H-6, PBXN-110,
trytenol, and tetryl, which is considered an
insensitive munition?

Back 25

PBXN-110

Front 26

Of guncotton, ballastite, tetryl, and cordite
N, which is not a form of smokeless powder?

Back 26

Tetryl

Front 27

Define restricted burning

Back 27

Where burning is restricted to the desired
surface or surfaces

Front 28

Cordite N is used in what type of ammunition?

Back 28

Aircraft gun ammunition

Front 29

M50 series 20MM incendiary ammunition is stored
in what type of magazine?

Back 29

In a fixed ammunition magazine

Front 30

What explosives will not burn under normal
conditions, but will detonate when ignited?

Back 30

Initiating explosives

Front 31

What is the most powerful and brisant high
explosive?

Back 31

RDX (Also known as cyclonite or hexogen)

Front 32

What explosive, because of its insensitivity to
shock, is used as bursting charge for armor
piercing projectiles?

Back 32

Ammonium picrate (Explosive D)

Front 33

What are the types of bomb ammunition?

Back 33

Bombs, mines, torpedo warheads, depth charges

Front 34

Define tetrytol

Back 34

Tetrytol is a cast mixture of tetryl and TNT

Front 35

What explosive may secrete an oily brown liquid
known as exudate?

Back 35

TNT

Front 36

What explosive is used in underwater weapons
and missile warheads?

Back 36

HBX-1 and HBX-3

Front 37

What filler is currently used in general
purpose bombs?

Back 37

H-6

Front 38

What is the standard bursting charge for
general purpose bombs?

Back 38

H-6 (BLU series GP bombs use PBXN-109)

Front 39

What is the standard explosive filler in BLU
series GP bombs?

Back 39

PBXN-109

Front 40

What explosive is used in the booster of an
M904 series fuze?

Back 40

Tetryl

Front 41

The standard explosive used in boosters is?

Back 41

Tetryl

Front 42

What explosive is never used aboard ships?

Back 42

Minol 2

Front 43

What symbol is used for plastic white
phosphorus?

Back 43

PWP in light red