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
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