• Home
  • Download PDF
  • Order CD-ROM
  • Order in Print
Typical airborne rocket launcher configurations
ASSIGNMENT 8-Cont. - 14014_210

Airman - Aviation theories and other practices
Page Navigation
  188    189    190    191    192  193  194    195    196    197    198  
ASSIGNMENT 8 Textbook Assignment: "Aircraft Ordnance," chapter 8, pages 8-1 through 8-30. 8-1. Which of the following types of ammunition is used to produce illumination? 1. Propellant 2. Incendiary 3. Pyrotechnics 4. Illumination 8-2. What type of ammunition is characterized by a large high-explosive charge-to-weight ratio? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-3. Which of the following devices is an explo- sive-loaded device designed to provide the means of releasing potential energy to initiate a function or a special-purpose action? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-4. What actual size ammunition items with work- ing mechanisms are used for training exercises but have no explosive materials? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-5. What type of ammunition uses a chemical pri- marily for igniting combustible substances? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-6. Ammunition intended for combat rather than for training has what classification? 1. Airborne stores 2. Propellants 3. Incendiaries 4. Service ammunition 8-7. The   Warhead   is the part of the ammunition containing the materials intended to inflict damage. What are the explosives in the warhead called? 1. Stores 2. Payload 3. Expendables 4. Components 8-8. An explosive is a material that is capable of producing an explosion by its own energy. 1. True 2. False 8-9. What are the two general classes of military explosives? 1. Explosive and nonexplosive 2. High and low explosives 3. Incendiary and burster explosives 4. Chemical and detonating explosives 8-10. Which of the following additives may be added to high explosives to provide desired stability and performance characteristics? 1. Powdered metals 2. Oils 3. Waxes 4. All the above 8-11. Which of the following explosives is characterized by the extremely fast decomposition called "detonation"? 1. High explosive 2. Low explosive 3. Initiating explosive 4. Auxiliary explosive 8-12. The decomposition of low explosives is known as what type of decomposition? 1. Detonation 2. Explosion 3. Deflagration 4. Combustion 8-13. Proper identification of ammunition provides which of the following types of information? 1. Service (live) ammunition 2. Nonservice (training) ammunition 3. Class of explosives 4. Each of the above 8-31







Western Governors University

Privacy Statement
Press Release
Contact

© Copyright Integrated Publishing, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Design by Strategico.