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Conventional Ammunition Marking
Overview This chapter focuses on marking practices applicable to conventional ammunition. It is intended to present, in brief, the utility of systematic ammunition marking for improving the safety and security of conventional ammunition stocks, particularly in relation to the risk of accidents (including explosive and incendiary risks) and the potential for illicit diversion. The chapter also p...
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Overview Tracing is a set of diverse methods used to identify ammunition, its origins, and patterns of transfer. It is a prerequisite for successful ammunition management and a crucial means of identifying diversion and the illicit trade in all munitions. Tracing is contingent on being able to identify specific production runs, batches, lots, and other collections of ammunition, and to ascertai...
متن کاملConventional Ammunition Diversion
Overview Diversion is the unauthorized transfer of arms and ammunition from the stocks of legal users to the illicit market. Throughout the world, it sustains the activities of non-state armed groups, terrorist organizations, and armed criminality. It is one of the principal sources of illicit weaponry and represents a grave threat to the safety of civilian populations, as well as to the securi...
متن کاملAMMUNITION TRACING PROTOCOLS A Guide to Safe, Responsible, Evidence-based Ammunition Tracing
The protocols are designed for use in a variety circumstances. They are formulated in this way because access to information differs significantly according to local circumstances—in particular, local security dynamics. Some studies may be able generate detailed background information on the trade in ammunition and report on patterns of acquisition by specific groups. Other studies may only be ...
متن کاملOn a Problem of Ammunition Rationing
Suppose you have u units of ammunition and want to destroy as many as possible of a sequence of attacking enemy aircraft. If you fire v = v(u), 0 ~ v ~ u, units of your ammunition at the first enemy, it survives with probability qv, where 0 < q < 1 is given, and then kills you. With the complementary probability, 1 qV, you destroy the aircraft and you live to face the next enemy with only u-v u...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/510221a