NATO STANDARD AOP-4496 Fragment Impact Test Procedures for Munitions

EUROLAB laboratory provides testing and compliance service within the scope of NATO STANDARD AOP-4496 standard. The purpose of this Standard is to specify testing requirements and procedures to provide evidence of the response of munitions and weapons systems to threats from being hit by an item.

The effort to minimize the severity of the response of ammunition hit by a piece is an ongoing commitment of weapons designers to ensure that personnel and material safety are not unduly compromised.

This Standard addresses the situation in which ammunition and weapons systems may be hit by an item. This can occur in operations in peacetime as a result of accident, opposition/saboteur activity, or as a result of enemy action. Ammunition stored in unprotected stores, magazines or launchers is considered particularly vulnerable.

Piece crash testing can only represent a specific set of conditions, as it is not possible to address the wide range of fragments, impact speeds, or angles of attack that occur in the real world.

The test item configuration should be the final production standard and conform to the state of the life cycle stage represented by the test or representative approved by the national authority.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with NATO STANDARD AOP-4496 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.