Publications - Munitions Safety, Transport & Storage

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

OPERATIONAL NECESSITY

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:

"Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure or so free. The violence of the first half of the 20th Century has given way to a period of peace and stability unprecedented in European History.

Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure or so free. The violence of the first half of the 20th Century has given way to a period of peace and stability unprecedented in European History.

TNT equivalency is used as a basis for several important government regulation issues that include limits imposed upon the size and location of explosive storage facilities, siting and construction of explosive manufacturing and test facilities, and the packaging and transportation of explosives.

The 2nd Analysis and Modeling Working Group (WG) meeting was held on 25 August 2006, immediately following the DoD Explosives Safety Seminar.