LSA Flashcards
The main groups are broken down into what sun group?
Sub group
Role
Hazard
Method of disposal
What are the 7 main groups of LSA?
Projectiles Mortars Rockets Grenades Land mines Booby traps Historical LSA
What are the main generic features of a projectile?
Driving band Nose/base fused Ogive Boat tailed Bourrelet
What are the main recognition features of a HE mortar bomb?
Tear drop in shape Nose fused Spigot Tail fins are the same diameter as the body Obturating rings/baffles
What are the main recognition features of a rocket?
Warhead
Motor
Venturi
What is the positive identification that a projectile has been fired?
Scores on the driving band
A HEAT round can be nose or base fused but to achieve the shape charge effect, it must be detonated from?
Behind the shaped charge
What do the colour codes/hazard bands black, light green, yellow, light red, dark red, white, brown, violet, light blue, dark blue
Armour defeating, smoke screening, HE, incendiary, riot control, illum, LE, incapacitating, practice, drill
What is the difference between a practice round and a drill round?
A prac round may contain an explosive charge.
A drill round never will
State four recognition features of a shot round
No fuse Resembles a long dart Possible tracer pocket Discarding sabot Ballistic caps/ piercing caps
If HE projectiles have yellow diamonds on the body what does this indicate?
Submunitions
