New MIL STD 2105 Revision D – Hazard Assessment Tests for Non-Nuclear Munitions

New MIL-STD-2105 Revision D, titled “Hazard Assessment Tests for Non-Nuclear Munitions” and dated 4/19/2011, is now available.  This standard provides or references tests and test procedures for the assessment of safety and Insensitive Munitions (IM) characteristics for all non-nuclear munitions, munition subsystems, and explosive devices.

MIL STD 2105 applies to all non-nuclear munitions (i.e., all-up missiles, rockets, pyrotechnics) and munitions subsystems (e.g., warheads, fuzes, cartridge actuated devices, propulsion units, safe and arm devices, pyrotechnic devices, chemical payloads) and other explosive devices. The standard assumes that it may not be possible to test against all threats.  Therefore, it recommends you select the most probable, credible stimuli that are expected to cause the greatest damage to life, property, or combat effectiveness.

Three sets of tests are commonly used to assess munitions with respect to hazards: IM tests as contained or contained in this standard; Hazard Classification (HC) tests used to classify munitions for transportation and storage purposes; and basic safety tests used to assess munition safety and suitability response or system vulnerability.  In order to best utilize limited resources and avoid test redundancy, it is suggested you tailor IM test plans to the maximum extent possible, so that all three sets of tests can be addressed in one coordinated test program with the minimum number of samples.

Twenty-five other standards are referenced in MIL-STD-2105 for many of the actual tests themselves.  The standard itself is 37 pages and replaces the MIL-STD-2105 Revision C with its 2 administration notices.  The document is intended for military use, not commercial applications.

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