Smoke munitions rocket

Description of Applicable Wastes Energetic materials that contain a high proportion of ammonia or nitrate are potentially useful for fertilizer manufacture. Materials such as aluminum in rocket propellants or zinc, manganese, and phosphorus in pyrotechnic or smoke munitions can be recovered. 

In 1963 Pains was amalgamated with the Wessex Aircraft Engineering Company (WAECo) who were based at High Post near Salisbury and who were, in turn, owned by the British Match Company. Within two years Pains Fireworks had relocated from Mitcham to High Post in a move that extended the Factory s product base from fireworks to distress flares, signalling smokes, line carrying rockets and munitions simulators trading under the name of Pains-Wessex. 

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... 

HMX is a very powerful explosive, which is more powerful then RDX. It has exceptional physical properties, and it demonstrates excellent shock and percussion resistance. The use of HMX in explosive compositions and munitions for military purposes is growing, and it is likely it will over take RDX in the future HMX exists in two primary modifications beta-HMX, and alpha HMX. Beta-HMX is useful in hollow charges, but alpha-HMX is more useful in explosives compositions, munitions, high performance rocket propellants, and gun propellants—HMX is a great smoke and flash-reducing agent for propellant formulations. 

The primary source of perchlorate is the ammonium salt. Ammonium perchlorate is the oxidizer ingredient in solid propellant mixtures for rockets, missiles, and munitions. Other uses of perchlorate salts include medicine, matches, metal cation chemistry, and pyrotechnics (illuminating and signaling flares, colored and white smoke generators, tracers, incendiary delays, fuses, photo-flash compounds, and... 

Smoke and fumes. The exhaust from some rocket motors and the fumes from some munitions can give responses. Since monitoring with CAM in these situations is unrealistic, few problems should arise. 

At the end of World War I, there were four million shells in the United States inventory. World War I ordnance such as the Livens projectile and Stokes mortar were outmoded by World War II, resulting in burials and dumping. Leaking ordnance was a continual problem. Add to that the 1,343,728 World War II chemical bombs, and the 13,550,613 World War II chemical mortar rounds not used in World War II, and the probability of substantial buried chemical weapons becomes a certainty, in addition to the tremendous numbers of currently stockpiled ordnance. Also, even current inventory ordnance would have an occasional leaking or damaged munition. In addition, experimental ordnance, grenades, rockets, candles, spray tanks, smoke pots, and cylinders are also burial candidates. Where is the question state and local regulators need to repeatedly ask. 

With types A, B, C, and E HC mixtures, the CWS had a range of smoke agents suitable for hand grenades, rifle grenades, artillery shells, rockets, bombs, and smoke pots. Shells, grenades, and bombs found employment during the war but by far the most widely used HC munition was the smoke pot. 

Among the munitions filled with HC smoke mixture were 2-pound bombs, M8 grenades, rifle smoke grenades, M88 and M89 shells, canisters for 105-mm. and 155-mm. shells, 100-pound and 500-pound clusters, 2.35-inch rockets, and smoke pots. Virtually all the 2-pound bombs were loaded under private contract in the Pittsburgh and Chicago procurement districts. Rifle grenades, smoke shells, and canisters were loaded at CWS arsenals, particularly Huntsville and Pine Bluff. Edgewood Arsenal filled all 100- and 500-pound clusters. ... 

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