Bomb 100-lb. Practice

An airdropped munition weighing 100 pounds, usually inert except for a spotting charge of black powder or a smoke mixture. Configured in the same weight classes as explosive-filled bombs.

Bomb MK23 3-lb. Practice

An airdropped munition weighing 3 pounds, usually inert except for a spotting charge of black powder or a smoke mixture. This item is not designed to produce shrapnel.

Bomb Incendiary

Bombs of various sizes (M50 4-Lb., M69 6-Lb., M74 10-Lb.) with an incendiary composition and designed to cause fire by igniting on high velocity impact.

Fuze

A device with explosive components designed to initiate a train of fire or detonation in an item of ammunition by an action such as hydrostatic pressure, electrical energy, chemical action, impact, mechanical time, or a combination of these.

High Explosive (HE)

An explosive that normally detonates rather than burns, that is, the rate of detonation exceeds the velocity of sound.

Igniter

An initiator (usually white phosphorous) used to ignite smoke bombs and the napalm fillers for firebombs.

Inert

Munitions, or components thereof, that contain no explosives, pyrotechnic, or chemical agents.

Non-munition Scrap

Items that are non-munition related including, but not limited to: wire, banding material, trash, auto parts, and nails.

Military Munition

All ammunitions products and components produced for or used by the armed forced for national defense and security, including ammunition products or components under the control of the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, the Department of Energy, and the National Guard. The term includes confined gaseous, liquid and solid propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, chemical and riot control agents, smokes, and incendiaries, including bulk explosives and chemical warfare agents, chemical munitions, rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs, warheads, mortar rounds, artillery ammunitions, small arms ammunitions, grenades, mines, torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and dispensers, demolitions charges, and devices and components thereof.

The term does not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices, and nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear components, other than non-nuclear components of nuclear devices that are managed under the nuclear weapons program of the Department of Energy after all required sanitization operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 have been completed.

Projectile 20mm

Projectile body measuring 20 millimeters (mm) in diameter found in the following types: ball, incendiary, armor piercing, high explosive incendiary, armor piercing incendiary and multi-purpose.

Projectile 37mm

Projectile body measuring 37 millimeters (mm) in diameter.

Projectile 75mm

Ammunition used in guns, howitzers, and recoilless rifles found in the following types: high explosive, armor piercing, high explosive anti-tank, and practice.

Rocket 2.25

A 2.25-inch diameter projectile used to simulate the action of the 3.5-inch and 5-inch aircraft rockets. Usually contains a smoke charge. A 2.25-inch rocket does not have any explosive configurations (it does not have an explosive warhead).

Small Arms

Small arms ammunition consists of cartridges and shells used in rifles, pistols, machine guns and shot guns. At FLBGR, predominantly refers to .50 caliber – a projectile body measuring 0.50 inch in diameter produced in the following types: ball, incendiary, armor piercing, tracer and blank.

Spotting Charge

A signal (spotting) charge is normally used in practice bombs to give a visual indication of point of impact by releasing a puff of smoke.

Stakeholders

Government agencies, regulators, property owners, Native American tribal nations, public interest groups, user groups, and other community interests with a direct interest in the implementation and outcome of activities directed at closure of a site.

UXO (Unexploded ordnance)

Military munitions that:

• have been primed, fused, armed, or otherwise prepared for action
• have been fired, dropped, launched, projected, or placed in such a manner as to constitute a hazard to operations, installations, personnel, or material
• remain unexploded whether by malfunction, design, or any other cause

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