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quacker
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 Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 06:45 PM
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Hiya!
I'm new on this community and registered because I have a doubt that I have not been able to answer yet, regarding colour stripes on GPB and PGM used on american a/c, in this case, F-16.
On the following image (that's an F-16A Block 15 of the former Venezuelan Air Force, 16 November 1983), those bombs are live rounds or inerts?, how do you recognize live bombs and inert ones accord to the stripes, at least those of american design?.
What exact model of AIM-9P3 is that?, I know it's an inert round (blue overall), but the stripes and the yellow cap protector looks like a training missile with a seaker and not just a piece of ballast.
Any answer would be great.! |
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Raptor_DCTR
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Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 07:21 PM
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| Live round - yellow stripe. Dummy round - blue stripe. Dummy 9's do have seeker heads hence the cover. |
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Rocky_LC
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Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 10:57 PM
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He's got it - here's more detail.
Table F-2. Ammunition Color Code, MIL-STD 709C Color1,2 Fed Std No 595 Interpretation
Yellow 33538 Identifies low-explosive items of components or indicates low explosive. Normally brown band around the item.
Brown
30117 or 30140 Identifies HE ammunition or indicates presence of HE.
Table F-3. Application of Color Codes for Particular Ammunition Items, MIL-STD 709C Ammunition Colors
Body Markings 1 Bands
HE, except 20mm
Olive drab
Yellow
Yellow 2,3,4,5
HE, 20mm
Yellow
Black
None
Explosive binary munitions
Olive drab
Yellow
Broken yellow6
HEP
Olive drab
Yellow
Black
HEAT
Black
Yellow
None
Antipersonnel and antitank mines
Olive drab
Yellow
Yellow3
Incendiary
Light red
Black
None
HEI
Yellow
Black
Light red
API
Black
White
Light red
AP
With bursting charge
Black
Yellow
None
Without bursting charge
Black
White
None
Canister
Olive drab
White
None
Flechette-loaded
Olive drab
White
White7
Yellow8
Chemical
Filled with a toxic chemical binary nerve agent
Gray
Dark Green
One broken dark green9,10,11
Illuminating
Separate loading
Olive drab
White
White
Fixed or semifixed
White
Black
None
Practice
With low explosive to indicate functioning
Brown
With high explosive to indicate functioning
Yellow
Without explosive to indicate functioning
None
Screening or marking
Smoke ammunition
Filled with other than WP
Light green
Black
None
Filled with WP
Light green
Light red
Yellow9
Light red12
Inert ammunition not designed to be delivered in a delivery system
Bronze
Black
None
Chemical
Filled with a riot control agent
Gray
Red
One red9
Filled with an incapacitating agent
Gray
Violet
One violet9
Filled with a toxic chemical agent other than binary agents
Gray
Dark Green
One dark green9
Filled with a toxic chemical binary nerve agent
Gray
Dark Green
One broken dark green 9,10
Table F-3. Application of Color Codes for Particular Ammunition Items, MIL-STD 709C (Continued) Footnotes:
1.Color of the letters and figures normally used for the main identification.
2.Circumferential band of yellow diamond-shaped figures on semifixed and separate-loading improved conventional munitions.
3.Circumferential band of yellow triangular-shaped figures on mass scatterable mine and loaded semifixed and separate-loading ammunition.
4.Separate-loading ammunition for shipboard use has a circumferential yellow band besides yellow markings.
5.Bombs have one yellow band except thermally protected bombs, which have two yellow bands besides yellow markings.
6.Circumferential broken yellow band (1/2-inch segments with 1/2-inch gaps) on explosive binary munitions.
7.Circumferential band of white diamond-shaped figures on ammunition containing flechettes.
8.Yellow band put on when the ammunition contains explosives used to fracture the projectile.
9.Yellow band put on to indicate HE burster.
10.Toxic chemical agent ammunition containing a binary nerve agent filling shown by a broken dark green band (1/2-inch segments separated by 1/2-inch spaces).
11.Both color applications are standard. However, for land ammunition use, separate-loading ammunition is olive drab for overall body color with a white band and main identification details marked white. Fixed and semifixed ammunition is white for overall body color with main identification details in black.
12.Separate-loading ammunition for shipboard use has black markings and a light red band. |
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outlaw162
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Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 12:37 AM
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Quote:
Filled with a toxic chemical binary nerve agent
Gray
Dark Green
One broken dark green9,10,11
Wasn't there a whole bunch of money and effort wasted supposedly trying to get rid of these things.
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JochemP
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Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 01:06 AM
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Dude... u nailed it!
BTW welcome, Guacker. |
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Butcher
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Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 04:39 AM
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