Publications - Munitions Safety, Transport & Storage

Imagine a Multi-National Camp with an Ammunition Holding Area somewhere in Southeast Asia.  The site is designed to accommodate the storage of Basic Load Ammunition for a Brigade of approximately 4,000 soldiers.

United Nations Test Series 7 (UN TS7) is used to classify explosive articles into Hazard Division 1.6 (HD 1.6).

The Operational Tempo in today’s deployed environment combined with lessons learned from historical accidents have created a shared vision and policy by many nations to procure and field safer munitions.

MSAS is a library of NATO STANAGs and APs (Allied Publications), other international standards, national standards, international treaties and laws related to munitions and particularly munitions safety. MSAS also contains information on the NATO bodies working on these issues

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The Operational Tempo in today’s deployed environment combined with lessons learned from historical accidents have created a shared vision and policy by many nations to procure and field safer munitions.

Sharing knowledge of a process that works for you, such as a software programme that helps you calculate and predict the fragment flight trajectories and/or velocities, and you will help develop or maintain a better working climate professionally, showcase a useful process that you are confident

This report covers NATO standardization activities related to Munitions and Munitions Safety.

MSAS is a complex tool. This user manual is not a guide but gives a brief explanation on how to use MSAS. The users will have to spend some time finding their own way through it and learn by experience.

Explosives (safety) testing and modeling efforts are on-going in many nations, with an emphasis that includes:

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