Misty picture event, test execution report. Officer's report, 1 December 1985-1 July 1987
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6839884
MISTY PICTURE was a high explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency. It was detonated at 1000 hours on 14 May 1987 on the White Sands Missile Range, NM. The explosive charge consisted of 4685 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO) poured in bulk into a 44-ft radius fiberglass hemisphere. The resulting airblast provided the scaled equivalent airblast of an 8-KT (33.4-TJ) nuclear device. The primary objective of the test was to provide an airblast, dust cloud, and ground shock environment for Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored experiments. These experiments were designed to determine the response of tactical and strategic weapon systems, communications equipment, vehicles, and a variety of structures to this environment. A secondary objective was to provide a thermal environment (in addition to airblast) for several experiments. The principal experiment governing the size of the event was the Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (BRV) fly-through experiment. This experiment required a dust cloud environment large enough to test the BRV. Another major experiment was the simulated precursed environment which was used to verify the response of various Hardened Mobile Launcher HML models. Hardened mobile launcher, Airblast, Debris, Nuclear weapons effects, Dust effects, Cratering, Hemispherical charge, Ejecta, Ground motion.
- Research Organization:
- Defense Nuclear Agency, Kirtland AFB, NM (United States). Test Directorate
- OSTI ID:
- 6839884
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-283521/3/XAB; CNN: DNA-001-85-C-0356
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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