JOTP-011
5 December 2014
APPENDIX A. BACKGROUND/RATIONALE
ANNEX 1. ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS
A.1-1 GENERAL.
A.1-1.1 LCEP.
During its expected life cycle, a munition will experience: 1) transportation from its place of
manufacture to a storage facility, 2) transportation to a place of temporary storage in an operational
theatre, 3) tactical transportation within that operational theatre, and finally 4) function or return
to storage. At each stage it will experience various environments resulting from the local climate,
general rough handling and transportation via numerous platforms. It may also experience
abnormal environments such as being accidentally dropped.
A.1-1.2 Test Levels.
This Appendix gives rationale for the specific test procedures and test severities recommended in
this document. The test levels are credible extreme environments, to which the inventory may be
exposed as part of the LCEP. Conflicts between the recommended test levels and munition specific
LCEP environments should be addressed through test tailoring and/or safety release restrictions.
A.1-1.3 Temperatures.
Surface and underwater launched munitions are required to remain safe and suitable for service at
extreme temperatures where personnel are expected to be capable of military operations.
a. Land based munitions are required to remain safe and suitable within NATO climate
categories C2 to A1. It would be expected for the munitions to remain S3 during and following
storage and transportation by various platforms within these climate categories. The extreme
temperatures of these climate categories (or the SRE for hot stream weapons) form the basis for
the conditioning temperatures for all mechanical environment tests. Munitions are also expected
to remain safe and suitable following storage at extreme cold conditions of a C3 climate category,
but would not necessarily be expected to be moved during the coldest period within this climate
zone due to difficulties with vehicles and the temperatures being outside the human comfort zone
(i.e., survival as opposed to capable of military operations). For this reason, the cold temperature
extreme for mechanical environmental tests have been based on the C2 climate category.
b. Sea based munitions are required to remain safe and suitable within NATO climate
categories M3 to A1. However, consider the C2 and C3 environments for munitions that may
possibly be stored and transported at a cold land based storage area.
A.1-1
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