Hazard Classification Test of GAU-6 Ammunition by Bonfire Cookoff with Limited Air Sampling | Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO)

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HERO ID

3790235

Reference Type

Technical Report

Title

Hazard Classification Test of GAU-6 Ammunition by Bonfire Cookoff with Limited Air Sampling

Author(s)

Elder, JC; Tillery, MI; Ettinger, HJ

Year

1976

Report Number

NTIS/02937173

Volume

GRA and I

Issue

GRA and I

Abstract

A standard hazard classification test of GAU-8 ammunition was performed August 26, 1975, for the U. S. Air Force Armament Laboratory (AFATL). Fragment pattern scoring following bonfire cookoff of 180 live rounds indicated only one shell base fragment was thrown beyond 400 feet by shell case disruption. Uranium aerosol dispersed by burning of depleted uranium penetrators within the ammunition was detected at five air samplers placed near the bonfire.