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Handbooks on Conventional Ammunition Manufactured in the Former Warsaw Pact Countries
The NATO EOD Centre of Excellence has already published series of three handbooks of conventional ammunition manufactured in the Former Warsaw Pact (FWP) countries.
These handbooks are designed to help EOD staff officers and EOD operators to safely handle munitions. It is mainly focused on the explosive elements such as bursting charges, fuel charges, detonators, fuzes or warheads. The destructive effect of old conventional ammunition seriously harms all military or civilian personnel, materials and objects. To give adequate knowledge for EOD specialist, the EOD personnel must be properly trained and be well prepared for safety disposal procedures. The aim is simply to assist in understanding of the construction of these types of ammunition and its safe disposal, because the significant number of FWP ammunition is still spread around the world.
The handbooks discuss the construction, classification, identification and marking of FWP ammunition. The handbooks are not a comprehensive manual but they do provide useful data on important points of ammunitions.
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| This handbook is the First Volume of the editorial sets. The First Volume contents general information about FWP explosives, information about hand grenades, artillery ammunition and mines and charges. | To follow up on Land Forces Ammunition, the Second Volume continues to deal with rockets and missiles, artillery rockets and light antitank weapons. | In order to cover the whole spectrum of ammunition used by FWP countries, the third Volume is dedicated to Air Forces Ammunition, particularly to aerial pro-jectiles, bombs, rockets and missiles. |
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This handbook is the Fourth Volume of the editorial sets. The Fourth Volume discusses the construction, identification and ways of initiation of artillery fuzes. |
