Quiz One Prep Flashcards
- What are the three types of pressure?
Direct, fluid, and air
- How does the PDM deploy?
7 trip lines (each 20 feet long)
- What does the mongoose use to destroy mines?
Shape charge net
- What does Oф signify?
Frag-HE
- Once mine has been located it is either:
a) Marked and bypassed
b) Detonated in place
c) Pulled out by rope
d) Neutralized and removed
- What are the upwind/downwind hazards of chemical?
600m upwind / 2000m downwind
- What are the PDM M86 times?
25 second – circuit self check
60 second – trip wires deploy
75 second – fully armed
4 hours – self-destruct
- What is bore safe and bore riding pin?
Bore safe: Type of fuse that has an interrupter in the explosive train that keeps a projectile from exploding until it clears the muzzle of the weapon
Bore riding pin: Safety pin which is held in place in the fuze while the projectile or rocket is in the gun barrel or launching tube. It is ejected from the fuze by the effect of centrifugal force or spring action beyond the muzzle
- What does the PDM use to propel the warhead?
M10 liquid propellant
- In soviet bomb markings, numerals indicates what?
Weight in kilogram
- Explain centrifugal force/spin
Centrifugal force is like a merry-go-round
- What is blasting radius of SLAM?
168 meters
- What are the techniques for probing?
Check for trip wires
Probe at a 30 degree angle
Probe every 2 inches (5cm)
1 meter wide lane
- What are the times for the SLAM time mode?
15,30,45, or 60 minutes
- What is the nomenclature for the warhead in the M86?
M43 Spherical warhead (kill mechanism)