Ammunition safety in military platforms. Initial results
conference paper
In the last two years a MoD funded project was performed by TNO in The Netherlands to include munition vulnerability in the Vulnerability/Lethality (V/L) studies on military platforms. This effort has resulted in an initial successful combination of two knowledge domains.
In this paper two case studies (a naval and a land study) will be presented as illustration of the possibilities that arise when munition vulnerability to external stimuli is included in the overall platform V/L study.
Realistic threat scenarios were identified for both case studies on a platform level. Analysis of the residual threat on the munition in the platform identified the expected munition behavior. The results from this analysis are included in the platform V/L analysis.
A such, the ultimate goal of this effort is to perform a V/L analysis on a military platform and not consider the munition storage as a black box and finally determine the consequences of the reaction of the munition on the survivability of the platform. This will give predictive capabilities for a wide range of platforms on their ability to continue their mission under a given external threat.
This paper will gives insight in the progress that was made in this project after presenting the initiation of this project during Parari 2013.
In this paper two case studies (a naval and a land study) will be presented as illustration of the possibilities that arise when munition vulnerability to external stimuli is included in the overall platform V/L study.
Realistic threat scenarios were identified for both case studies on a platform level. Analysis of the residual threat on the munition in the platform identified the expected munition behavior. The results from this analysis are included in the platform V/L analysis.
A such, the ultimate goal of this effort is to perform a V/L analysis on a military platform and not consider the munition storage as a black box and finally determine the consequences of the reaction of the munition on the survivability of the platform. This will give predictive capabilities for a wide range of platforms on their ability to continue their mission under a given external threat.
This paper will gives insight in the progress that was made in this project after presenting the initiation of this project during Parari 2013.
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TNO Identifier
529732
Source title
PARARI 2015, Sydney, Australia, 9-12 November 2015
Collation
28 sheets
Pages
Session 7B
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