Ammunition, incendiary with

Ammunition, incendiary with or without burster, expelling charge or propelling charge 0010... 

Small arms ammunition. Incendiary small arms ammunition, while carrying only a very small amount of material, has proved to be of the greatest value in effectively attacking highly flammable targets, such as aircraft, which might be filled with hydrogen or carry tanks... 

The purpose of the wartime Chemical Warfare Service had been to handle all matters relating to toxic agents and ammunition together with gas defense material. Incendiaries and smokes had not been mentioned in the wartime charter of the Chemical Warfare Service although before the end of the war it had actually done considerable work on both these items. This fact is reflected in the wording of the revised National Defense Act, which accordingly enlarged the CWS field. Thus was completed the shift in emphasis from the "gas service of 1917 to the "chemical service of 1920. 

Incendiary Flash Tests for Small Arms Ammunition. The purpose of these tests is to investigate the ability of incendiary bullets to develop, upon impact, an incandescent flash, sufficiently hot and sustained to ignite explosive vapors, or to initiate combustion in other readily combustible materials. These tests also establish the relative size, position and persistence of the flash as compared with a standard chart. Tests are made under controlled conditions against a target of fixed design... 

Incendiary type warhead (with gelled formulations like Napalm and solid formulations based on pyrophoric metals)-used against fuel and ammunition dumps etc. 

Other incendiary compositions used in older ammunition were potassium chlorate based with a mixture of potassium chlorate and mercury sulfocyanide as the priming composition. Another older incendiary composition consisted of potassium nitrate, magnesium, aluminum, and lead oxide.72,73 Multipurpose filled bullets are also manufactured, for example, armor piercing/incendiary, armor piercing/tracer, and spotter tracer bullets, which leave a visible trace and produce a puff of smoke on impact. One such smoke charge is lead dioxide 85% and powdered aluminum 15%. There... 

Military pyrotechnics are closely connected with the field of military explosives they are used in many special types of ammunition and munition and also in such devices as flares, rockets, and smoke pots. With the tremendous development of the military air forces the importance of obscuring smokes and incendiary activities has been greatly... 

At the end of May, Shadle expressed his satisfaction with the chemical offensive potential and ammunition status in the North African theater. His view seems to have been overly optimistic since smoke pots, tear gas, and HC smoke grenades were the only ammunition items available in sufficient supply. All the chemical supply officers reported urgent requests for unavailable white phosphorus grenades. The Twelfth Air Force reported limited quantities of ANM50A1 4-pound incendiary bombs, a few Mja yoo-pound incendiary bomb clusters, and a considerable number of My4 loo-pound incendiary bomb clusters. There was no other chemical ammunition in the theater although the New York port had promised that 120 days supply of high explosive and smoke shell was en route for the three chemical mortar battalions which had recently arrived in the theater. Aside from a small amount of artillery shell stored by Ordnance, no toxics were available in the theater and none was scheduled to arrive until the fall of 1943. The March theater plan for gas warfare, the first such plan, was based on meeting possible enemy gas attack with this plainly inadequate supply of artillery shell. The new War Department policy for retaliation in event of enemy initiation of gas warfare called for the use of aerial munitions as the principal gas weapons. Shadle s satisfaction with the toxic supply status can be explained by the fact that he did not con-... 

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