Question..electriclly tested Arty Ammo????

[RHClarke]

Recent manuals indicate that electrical testing of rounds and missiles refers to circuit checks that are conducted to determine the fitness of the various electrical systems. Rocket motors come to mind as do electrically set fuzed ammo.

Manuals go to great lengths to warn the user to only use an authorized test kit and suitable power source sufficient for the testing and to avoid using a power source that may cause a reaction in the explosive component of the round or missile. Makes sense.

There are some older manuals that discuss static discharge limits and lightning strikes on ammo storage sites.

Not much has changed with regards to electrical testing of ammo since WWII. Ammo Techs still want to walk out of the bunker alive - the test kits have changed as have the complexity of the ammo.