Final report in the EDA project Munition Life Management (MLM)
Publish date: 2018-09-19
Report number: FOI-R--4612--SE
Pages: 49
Written in: English
Keywords:
- ammunition
- ammunition surveillance
- out of area operations
- logistics
- logging
- sensors
Abstract
The out of area operations that Sweden participates in place new demands on both the people and the ammunition used in the operations. Traditionally, ammunition for the Swedish Armed Forces is qualified for Swedish conditions. International operations generally take place in an environment that differs significantly from conditions in Sweden. The ammunition is subjected to higher temperatures, larger diurnal temperature fluctuations, higher humidity, more severe mechanical stresses (shock, vibration) etc. than originally constructed for. Sweden participates in an EDA (European Defence Agency) project (B-0488-GEM2-GP) within the area Munition Life Management (MLM). Areas considered within the project are related to storage and material degradation of components in ammunition during out-of-area operations (OoA operations). Participating nations in the project are the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden, under lead of the Netherlands. This report is the final report within the project and gives a summary of the first and second packages (WP100 and WP200). The work performed in work packages three and four (WP300 and WP400) are presented in more detail. Conclusions from a final workshop, held at the end of the project, are presented in WP500. In the report, results from analyses performed on ammunition stored in Mali are compared to non-deployed ammunition from Swedish storage. Also, results from temperature and humidity logging, previously performed in Afghanistan and on-board HSwMS Carlskrona during a mission in the Gulf of Aden, are presented.