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Explosive Screening and Projectile Nose Drop Facility
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The building's primary use is as a projectile nose drop facility. Melt casted projectiles are nose dropped to bump the cast forward in order to reveal any base separation in the round that may cause the projectile to be rejected during the x-ray process.
Laboratory
- U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Category
- Ordnance
Provenance
- Original
- https://dodtechmatch.com/dod/lab/viewfacility.aspx?id=71942
- Archived copy
- Wayback Machine snapshot
This record was recovered from a public web archive of dodtechmatch.com and is preserved for historical reference. It may be outdated. Not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Contact details from the original listing have been withheld.