Today's Standardized Survivability Tests

In the last decades are required so-called insensitive munitions what in practice means less sensitive munitions which are less violent reacting by different attack modes and under strange environmental conditions as fire. One very important part is the requirement that the ammunitions should not more sympathetic or mass detonate. Such behavior would give definitely a much higher safety feature and the related security will be strongly increased. These tests are more or less required for military use and applications but they give also good features for higher related security aspects. summarized The different test methods are shortly described and their pros and cons are discussed on the "Impact of Conventional Munitions on Environment and Population“.