Project Armor Obstacle was a series of cratering and obstacle effectiveness experiments conducted in October and November 1972 at Fort Peck, Montana. The cratering tests consisted of several deliberate road cratering designs and a series of equal weight cratering comparisons. Explosives involved were TNT, nitromethane, a 10% aluminized slurry, ANFO, the Army's 40-lb cratering charge, and the Experimental XM-180 cratering charge. Various wheeled and tracked vehicles attempted to negotiate the road craters that were produced. Obstacle effectiveness tests were also conducted in a crater produced by 17 tons of nitromethane at 6 meters depth of burial with an open access hole. Test results demonstrated the validity of the various road crater designs and their effectiveness as obstacles. (Modified author abstract)
Project Armor Obstacle II
1973
93 pages
Report
No indication
English
Detonations, Explosion Effects, & Ballistics , Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics , Passive Defense Systems , Explosive charges , Cratering , Passive defense , Area defense , Effectiveness , Trafficability , Ground motion , Explosion effects , Mobility , Vehicle obstacles , Armor obstacle project