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Measurement and modeling of energetic-material mass transfer to soil-pore water - Project CP-1227 final technical report.

Description: Military test and training ranges operate with live-fire engagements to provide realism important to the maintenance of key tactical skills. Ordnance detonations during these operations typically produce minute residues of parent explosive chemical compounds. Occasional low-order detonations also disperse solid-phase energetic material onto the surface soil. These detonation remnants are implicated in chemical contamination impacts to groundwater on a limited set of ranges where environmental c… more
Date: May 1, 2006
Creator: Stein, Joshua S.; Sallaberry, Cedric M.; Webb, Stephen Walter; Phelan, James M. & Hadgu, Teklu
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High-density metals and metallic composites for improved fragmentation submunitions

Description: The fragmentation of cases (50.8-mm-id) made of tungsten, a tungsten alloy, and depleted uranium (D-38) can be controlled, and velocities greater than 1 mm/$mu$s can be achieved for lethal size fragment weights. Fragmentation was controlled by internal grooves, by internal screens, and by a spheroid-in-weak- matrix scheme. A thin polymer liner was used inside of a grooved tungsten case in one experiment; this system performed exceptionally well. The ease of fabricating cases with D-38 or with t… more
Date: August 1975
Creator: Craig, B. G.; Honnell, R. E.; Lederman, G. F., Jr. & Sandstrom, D. J.
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Clearing Unexploded Ordnance: Bayesian Methodology for Assessing Success

Description: The Department of Defense has many Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) that are slated for transfer for public use. Some sites have unexploded ordnance (UXO) that must be cleared prior to any land transfers. Sites are characterized using geophysical sensing devices and locations are identified where possible UXO may be located. In practice, based on the analysis of the geophysical surveys, a dig list of N suspect locations is created for a site that is possibly contaminated with UXO. The suspect… more
Date: October 30, 2005
Creator: Anderson, K K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses cluster munitions and their use and dangers. U.S. policy regarding them is discussed including the November 2017 rule issued by the DOD which relaxed standards for cluster munitions to allow the use of munitions that did not gave a 1% or less unexploded submunitions rate in extreme war situations reversing a 2008 rule.
Date: December 13, 2017
Creator: Feickert, Andrew & Kerr, Paul K.
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Flight Investigation to Evaluate the Roll-Rate Stabilization System of the Naval Ordnance Test Station SIDEWINDER Missile at Mach Numbers From 0.9 to 2.3

Description: Report presenting a flight investigation using a rocket-powered model to evaluate the roll-rate stabilization of the Naval Ordnance Test Station SIDEWINDER missile, which uses aerodynamic damping by gyro-actuated rollerons. Dynamic roll instability was found to occur in flight.
Date: April 29, 1954
Creator: Brown, Clarence A., Jr. & Nason, Martin L.
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Wind-Tunnel Investigation of the Effect of Spin on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a 60-Millimeter T-24 Mortar Shell With Several Tail-Fin Configurations

Description: Report discussing an investigation to determine the effect of spin on the aerodynamic characteristics of the Army Ordnance Corps 60-millimeter T-24 mortar shell with several tail-fin configurations. Tests were performed at several airspeeds, speeds of rotation, and angles of attack. Under all test conditions, the models were statistically stable and the yawing moment increased with speed of rotation at higher angles of attack.
Date: March 21, 1957
Creator: Kemp, William B., Jr. & Hayes, William C., Jr.
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The Fastest Gun in the West, Vulcan

Description: Graphic pamphlet about a new automatic weapons system designed to shoot down enemy planes in low altitudes. Includes information about the weapon, how to use it, a condition table, and more.
Date: 1976
Creator: United States. Department of the Army. Army Air Defense School.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Special Issue on geophysics applied to detection and discrimination of unexploded ordnance

Description: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) presents serious problems in Europe, Asia, as well as in the United States. Explosives and mines from World War I and World War II still turn up at European and Asian construction sites, backyard gardens, beaches, wildlife preserves and former military training grounds. The high rate of failure among munitions from 60-90 years ago is cited as one of the main reasons for such a high level of contamination. Apart from war activities, military training has resulted in man… more
Date: January 15, 2007
Creator: Gasperikova, Erika; Gasperikova, Erika & Beard, Les P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Quarterly Report on the Condition and Quality of Ordnance Stores, September 30, 1864]

Description: Quarterly report on the condition and quality of ordnance stores. This report was to be returned by every officer to the Ordnance Office with their Quarterly Return of Ordnance Stores. The purpose of this report was to afford all officers a means of presenting their views regarding arms and equipments furnished to Cavalry, and to enable the Ordnance Office to correct the defects in these supplies.
Date: September 30, 1864
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal: DOD Needs Better Resource Planning and Joint Guidance to Manage the Capability

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) forces grew over the past 10 years to meet wartime and other needs, but the Department of Defense (DOD) does not have the data needed to develop a funding strategy to support future EOD force plans. To meet increased demands for EOD personnel, the services increased their EOD forces from about 3,600 personnel in 2002 to about 6,200 in 2012. Anticipating that the need fo… more
Date: April 25, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Unexploded ordnance issues at Aberdeen Proving Ground: Background information

Description: This document summarizes currently available information about the presence and significance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the two main areas of Aberdeen Proving Ground: Aberdeen Area and Edgewood Area. Known UXO in the land ranges of the Aberdeen Area consists entirely of conventional munitions. The Edgewood Area contains, in addition to conventional munitions, a significant quantity of chemical-munition UXO, which is reflected in the presence of chemical agent decomposition products in Edge… more
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Rosenblatt, D.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instructions for Ordnance Officers and Acting Ordnance Officers at Headquarters of Departments, Armies, Divisions, Brigades, or Districts.

Description: Circular from the War Department containing "General Orders No. 193" to perfect organizing the services of the Ordnance Department, as connected with Armies in the field and the Military Departments, and at the same time securing for that Department the services of a body efficient officers, trained to its special duties. The document includes 10 orders sent by Secretary of War E. D. Townsend as well as the specific orders of George D. Ramsay to complete the orders of Townsend. Two forms are p… more
Date: May 23, 1864
Creator: Ramsay, George D.
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[Cactus Ordnance Works main gate]

Description: Photograph of the main gate at the Cactus Ordnance Works in Cactus, Texas. Four men in police-like uniforms stand at the booth of the main gate and look at the camera. A large dog sits next to them. An automobile is stopped at the gate. The Cactus Ordnance Works was a 700-acre manufacturing site for ammonia nitrate.
Date: [1947..1949]
Creator: Standifer, James William
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A cost-effective adverse-weather precision guidance system

Description: This SAND report documents the results of an LDRD project undertaken to study the accuracy of terrain-aided navigation coupled with highly accurate topographic maps. A revolutionary new mapping technology, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR), has the ability to make terrain maps of extremely high accuracy and spatial resolution, more than an order of magnitude better than currently available DMA map products. Using a laser altimeter and the Sandia Labs Twin Otter Radar Testbed, fix… more
Date: August 1, 1995
Creator: Fellerhoff, R. & Burgett, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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