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NIMIC Pilot MSIAC Lettre NIMIC du Pilot MSIAC Newsletter 2nd Quarter 2004/2ème Trimestre 2004 head of an extensive sub-structure of specialist committees and reports Inside this issue: CNAD EXHIBITION ON directly to the North Atlantic Council - EQUIPMENT & NATO's senior decision-making TECHNOLOGIES FOR body. This was its first meeting DEFENCE AGAINST following NATO’s enlargement to 26 CNAD Exhibition 1-2 TERRORISM countries. on Equipment & Technologies for A total of eighty-five large and small Defence Against industry companies and research Terrorism For the first time in NATO’s history, a establishments from throughout technology and equipment exhibition Europe and North America submitted Insensitive 2 took place at NATO Headquarters, in Munitions: proposals for exhibits. Following a the framework of the meeting of the Technological selection process NIMIC/Pilot Solutions Conference of National Armaments Supporting Directors (CNAD) on 6/7 May 2004, NATO's Military with the theme “Defence against Concept for Terrorism”. Defence Against Terrorism This two-day exhibition, inaugurated Directory of 3 by the NATO Secretary General, Testing Facilities was an opportunity to draw the is now available attention of NATO’s acquisition RS-RDX Round 4 decision-makers and senior officers Robin (R4) to the possibilities offered by Programme Insensitive Munitions (IM) to actively Accidents 5-7 participate in the implementation of From left to right: F. Peugeot - NIMIC, F. Involving NATO’s military concept for Defence AMAR - Eurenco, M. Noirclerc - IMEMG, P. Munitions Around Against Terrorism (see related article Touze - NIMIC, JL Renaud-Bezot - Giat the World in this newsletter). Industries and H. Muthig - TDW/President Procurement 8 MSIAC, with the support of the IM/ Issues Press The CNAD is the senior NATO Review committee responsible for MURAT European Manufacturers armaments co-operation, materiel Group (IMEMG), EURENCO, GIAT- NIMIC News 9 standardisation and defence Industries and TDW, was offered procurement matters. It is at the (Continued on page 2) 1 2nd Quarter 2004 NIMIC NEWSLETTER 2ème Trimestre 2004 (Continued from page 1) The domino effect of an attack on munitions will be minimized, and hence fewer assets will one of the thirty-five slots. be lost. IM are a force multiplier. o IM improve forces morale, which in turn During the CNAD meeting, combating terrorism was improves combat effectiveness. Soldiers feel recognized as the highest priority and a Programme much safer and stronger when they know that of Work for Defence Against Terrorism was their munitions are unlikely to react violently to endorsed. This programme will form part of an any attack. enhanced anti-terrorism package that is expected to be adopted by Heads of State and Government at - Deployability and Readiness (DR) the forthcoming Istanbul Summit, 28/29 June. Among the eight priority armaments projects o IM improve logistics. They can be stored close identified in the Programme there are: to each other and close to weapon platforms at a lower risk, with no need for waivers. Hence o Reducing the vulnerability of large-body aircraft to they improve DR, which is the ability to portable ground-air missiles. increase the tempo of operations, to pack up, o Protecting harbours and vessels from surface and move and deploy at a quick pace. sub-surface attacks. o IM improve interoperability. In a coalition, if o Reducing the vulnerability of helicopters to ground you can trust your Allies’ munitions to be as attack. safe as yours, then you will be more willing to provide and accept services to/from them (i.e. IM are for sure a way of meeting the goals of this transport or store them, use them). This is Programme of Work. interoperability. - Force Protection (FP) NATO’s Military Concept for Defence Against o In each of the four roles, FP is an essential INSENSITIVE MUNITIONS: consideration for any military plan aimed at defence against terrorism. It consists of all TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS measures and means to minimize the SUPPORTING NATO’S MILITARY vulnerability of personnel, facilities, equipment CONCEPT FOR DEFENCE AGAINST and operations to any threat and in all TERRORISM situations, to preserve freedom of action and the operational effectiveness of the force. o Military Commanders must balance the risk to Terrorism identifies four roles for military operations. their forces against their mission objectives They are: and decide on the appropriate level of force protection to employ. Their decisions will be - Anti-Terrorism: the use of defensive measures to influenced by up to date risk assessments. IM reduce the vulnerability of forces, individuals and are designed to reduce such risks, and hence property to terrorism. are an integral part of Force Protection. - Consequence Management: the use of reactive measures to mitigate the destructive effects of By improving Effective Engagement capabilities, terrorist attacks. Deployability and Readiness and by maximizing - Counter-Terrorism: the use of offensive measures Force Protection, IM are actively participating in the to reduce the vulnerability of forces, individuals implementation of the NATO’s military concept for and property to terrorism. Defence Against Terrorism. - Military Co-operation. Protection of Civilian Populations. Finally, NATO To implement the concept, a set of essential Allies and Partners for Peace are working together to capabilities is needed. Some of these capabilities, improve civil preparedness against, and manage the key to modern military operations, are listed below, consequences of, terrorist attacks. Because modern together with how they relate to IM: military operations often take place in urban areas, IM can contribute to the protection of civilian - Effective Engagement (EE) populations by reducing collateral damage in case of an attack to an asset or an ammunition depot. o IM improve sustainability, i.e. the ability to remain combat effective over the time needed to complete military operations. If IM undergo an attack, their response will be less violent. 2 2nd Quarter 2004 NIMIC NEWSLETTER 2ème Trimestre 2004 THE DIRECTORY OF TESTING FACILITIES IS NOW AVAILABLE At the request of its Steering Committee and several • Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) - ETBS customers, NIMIC has collected information Test and Evaluation Center (France) concerning test facilities that offer their IM testing • Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) - services commercially to outside customers. CAEPE Test and Evaluation Center (France) • Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH EZU, Test This information has been compiled in a directory of Centre Unterluess (Germany) IM testing facilities, which consists of an individual • NAMMO Test Centre (Norway) entry for each participating test organization/center. • LQCA (Spain) Information appears under six major headings: • FOI (Sweden) • Swedish Defence Materiel Administration 1. General information about the organization/test Verification and Validation Centre, Karlsborg center Test Range (Sweden) 2. Contact information • Bofors Test Range (Sweden) 3. General information about the overall testing • Cranfield University Ordnance Test and facilities, capabilities of the organization and Evaluation Center (United Kingdom) especially the ones related to IM testing • QINETIQ (United Kingdom) 4. IM testing experience (Research, Programme…) • Bae Systems - Royal Ordnance Defense - 5. Specific information about each IM test Ridsdale (United Kingdom) conducted (explosive limit, instrumentation, • Energetic Materials Research and Testing pictures…) Center (United States) 6. Cost of testing • Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake (United States) In the first edition of this directory, 19 test centers • Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren from 9 nations (Australia, Canada, France, Division (United States) Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United • Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Kingdom and the United States) are presented. Division (United States) • National Technical Systems (United States) • Department of Defense Facility, Port Wakefield (Australia) This Directory of IM Testing Facilities is now • Department of Defence Facility, Graytown available on request and can be downloaded from (Australia) the NIMIC Secure Website (NIMIC-L-106 report). • Mining Resource Engineering Limited For any additional information please contact F. (Canada) Peugeot ([email protected]). REMINDER The fifth NIMIC IM Award will be presented at the IM/EM Technology Symposium in San Francisco, CA, USA, in November 2004. Please e-mail your nominations to NIMIC before 30 September 2004. You will find details in the two previous Newsletters, on the NIMIC website or by contacting NIMIC. 3 2nd Quarter 2004 NIMIC NEWSLETTER 2ème Trimestre 2004 RS-RDX ROUND ROBIN (R4) PROGRAMME NIMIC is currently working with the US-custodian of STANAG 4022 in order to facilitate the inclusion of RS-RDX as a clearly defined and specified raw ingredient for use in IM formulation development. One of the key parts of this development will include a multinational round robin program. The goals of the R4 program are to: • Standardize crystal level test to discriminate between ‘normal’ and RS-RDX • Provide data to further validate some new procedures to be included in STANAG 4022 - see test methods shown in the figure below • Analyze samples from various producers to verify criteria and sentencing limits for the RS-RDX nature Mandatory Tests Optional Tests Melting Point (DSC) Crystal Density Atomic Force (Sink/Float) Microscopy
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