Military courtesy

The. . . Technical Division was constantly irritated by attempts of NDRC to force adoptions at higher echelons and its too great willingness to forget military channels and military courtesy. [Noyes, page 147]. 

During the Cold War, the M-34 sarin cluster munition was the first major nerve agent weapon for the US military. (Courtesy of Soldier Biological and Chemical Command, Historical Research and Response Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.)... 

I960 and "Safety Data , Feb4, I960 obtained through the courtesy of Mr. S.J.Porter give some expl properties of Spencer AN expls, such as 94/6-N-IV Prilled AN/Fuel oil No 2. These expls are the least sensitive of all military expls and of some commercial expls, such as 40% dynamite, Nitramite, Nitramon A, etc The enclosed table gives some properties of typical Spencer expls, as compared with those of TNT, dynamite, etc. In all cases, Spencer expls were initiated by the Pentolite booster (675 g)... 

Figure 106. Longitudinal Sections of Military Rifle Ammunition of the First World War. (Courtesy Emile Monnin Chamot.) The cartridge at the bottom, French 9.0-mm. Lebel rifle, the one above it, German 7.9-mm. Mauser, and the one above that, Canadian. 30 caliber, all have anvils of the Berdan type integrally one with the metal of the cartridge case.

FIGURE 5.7 O-rings for different applications. (Courtesy of Daikin.) 5.1.9.2 Typical Aerospace and Military Applications... 

When the American military roars into battle today, airmen in supersonic jets release bombs that fly toward their targets on the wings of radio signals from orbiting satellites. Pictures of the scene arrive at my computer courtesy of the Internet, conceived and originally developed by military-funded scientists. Every part of this scene—the aircraft, the pilot, the missiles, satellites, and computer networks—represents one small piece of a scientific and military juggernaut that follows a path blazed by Fritz Haber. 

On both sides, relations between chemists and the military remained problematic. German generals, scientists and technologists lived under the same roof, Fritz Haber recalled after the war, they greeted each other on the staircase. However, the facts suggest otherwise. Courtesies aside, mutual understanding improved little and, for most of the war, chemists were held in little esteem by professional soldiers. Haber... 

A French military commission visiting BASF, Ludwigshafen, in 1919. (Courtesy BASF Ludwigshafen.)... 

FIG U RE 2.3 Two instruments that changed perceptions about and visibility of ion mobility spectrometry. In the top frame is a photograph of a soldier in a protective suit with a handheld military-style ion mobility spectrometer, the chemical agent monitor (CAM), from Graseby Dynamics, Limited, in Watford, England. In the bottom frame is a benchtop analyzer for trace detection of explosive residues, the model 400A lONSCAN, from Barringer Research in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Courtesy of Smiths Detection, both companies are now part of Smiths Detection.)... 

Figure 6. C/C discs for the braking systems of civilian Airbus aircraft (left) and military Mirage 2(X)0 fighter aircraft (right). The discs were fabricated according to the l-CVI process courtesy SEP division de SNECMA.

Military airborne communications multichip module. (Courtesy of CMAC America. DuPont Application Note Reference H-65352.)... 

Figure 81 Three generations of modern military aircraft, (a) Jaguar (Crown Copyright/MoD Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO), (b) Tornado (Copyright Roger Hadlow), (c) Typhoon (courtesy Eurofighter at www.eurofighter.com).

Figure 6.3 A fiber-optically coupled two-color flame detector assembly originally developed for military aircraft, but now used extensively to protect automotive paint robots where flames are a real danger. A two-color Si/Si sandwich photodetector and the electronics and logic are in the red brick. One fiber optic cable conducts radiation from a remote sensing site to the detector, and the other is used for thru-the-lens self-test. (Image courtesy of Detector Electronics Corporation.)...

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