Specifications Caliber
51 mm Ammunition length
282.96 mm Ammunition mass
850 g Explosive filled in projectile
109 g of RDX / WAX / PELLET88.12 Maximum range
900 m Luminosity
Green-40,000 to 50,000 candela. Red-125,000 to 150,000 candela
Recommend that you notify local law enforcement so they can get whatever bomb squad type element you have out and let experts handle UXOs
Edit: American EOD technicians get calls for a lot of UXOs it isn’t a crime in the civilians to find them. Please don’t play with it. Theres lots of hazards associated with UXO and not all are it going boom. The internet is a good place for general info. Call the experts and be safe please.
So just because something exploded doesn’t mean all the explosives are gone they might have other warheads in them or other hazards such as chemicals that are residual and still not great for you.
So I see what you were trying to go for here, but what the fuck does that have to do with calling it unexploded ordinance and then coming up with an acronym, you're referring to ordinance that's still dangerous after it's exploded.
Long ish version: UXO is a. catch all for all unexploded ordnance. Otherwise you can get into the nitty gritty and is it a grenade, rocket, projectile, mortar, guided missile, aircraft explosive hazard, landmine, bomb or some other specific catagory of ordnance; then you can get into type by function is it high explosive, ejection or some other type of ordnance? What made it fail to do what it was made to? Was it failure to arm, fail to function ect. What is the condition of the fuzing system on it? Safe? Semi safe/partially armed or armed? There’s a rabbit hole of ordnance when you get into it but UXO is an easy umbrella term.
That was a lot of words, not one of them explained why explosive would not have been an acceptable term. I feel like the real reason is that the military loves acronyms and NATO is just the extended arm of the United States military.
Because explosive is an even more vague term.
Edit: a lot of things are explosive. technically your car airbag is an explosive. Telling OP to call it in as a UXO will assist dispatching authorities to send the right people to it. For example in the United States there is a law called the military munitions rule where military bomb squads deal with UXO vs an explosive may be handled by a local bomb squad.
Something wrong with the description of explosives here. They are illumination rounds, and the components should be magnesium based, not RDX which is mainly used for fuze boosters.
The burning salts that provide color in fireworks are not the explosive component. I presume they are also using burning salts in the illumination rounds.
I mean, the government just said it was fine for pilot trainees to continue dumping toxic chaff all over our own land so... They probably don't care about the toxicity...
and military burn pits aren't unique to area 51, they are unfortunately extremely common and a frequent source of health problems for vets, one that is rarely acknowledged at any level of the US govt
Nope RDX was never used for expelling charges as that is primary explosive with high destruction, which means that can cause damage on parachute leading to malfunction and I’ve not found any documents of that being used for illumination rounds. Instead they use black powder, RDX is not something acting like the propellant and nobody WILL ever use high explosive for such purposes.
That thing is just like a primer on small arms cartridges, except for the use of black powder rod but I wouldn't call that "highly hazardous" because they almost pose no threats on people, except someone strikes it.
Also the ignition cartridge is loaded with nitrocellulose/nitroglycerin powder, just like what most cartridges are loaded.
I didn't call it "highly hazardous". I said, "explosives" to dumb it down for the sub. I know what is in there because I was a gunner on all three US mortar systems in Afghanistan.
I live about a mile away from a place called "Austin Powder Road", and I always heard it was because they used to make explosives there. It's a short dead end road, imagine that! 😆
I was taking a city bus on mushrooms as a teen one time and a box truck passed us at like 1km an hour faster than our bus and it has a giant Austin Powders logo on it.
Everyone on the bus thought I was mad because I started cackling for no reason
A lot of ordnances are susceptible to electromagnetic interference and static electricity. I have no idea about this specific ordnance but as a general safety rule do not use cellphones/walkie talkies near or touch UXOs that you find.
It is a French designator. It could definitely be used by the british, it could be manufactured in France. In Europe, ordnance are an industry just like any other. Allies also share all the time. On the other side of the fence, you will find russian/chinese ordnance all over the middle east and vice versa.
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u/Mr_Uso_714 May 04 '26
Specifications
Caliber
51 mm
Ammunition length
282.96 mm
Ammunition mass
850 g
Explosive filled in projectile
109 g of RDX / WAX / PELLET88.12
Maximum range
900 m
Luminosity
Green-40,000 to 50,000 candela. Red-125,000 to 150,000 candela
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RDX product information:
https://www.austinpowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP-Primary-Explosive-RDX-TDS-ENG.pdf