ASSIGNMENT 8 Textbook Assignment:    "Aircraft Ordnance," chapter 8, pages 8-1 through 8-30. 8-1. Which of the following types of ammunition is used to produce illumination? 1. Propellant 2. Incendiary 3. Pyrotechnics 4. Illumination 8-2. What type of ammunition is characterized by a large high-explosive charge-to-weight ratio? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-3. Which  of  the  following  devices  is  an  explo- sive-loaded   device   designed   to   provide   the means of releasing potential energy to initiate a function or a special-purpose action? 1. Cartridge-actuated  device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type  ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-4. What actual size ammunition items with work- ing mechanisms are used for training exercises but have no explosive materials? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-5. What type of ammunition uses a chemical pri- marily for igniting combustible substances? 1. Cartridge-actuated device 2. Incendiary 3. Bomb-type ammunition 4. Inert ordnance 8-6. Ammunition intended for combat rather than for training has what classification? 1. Airborne  stores 2. Propellants 3. Incendiaries 4. Service ammunition 8-7. The   Warhead   is  the  part  of  the  ammunition containing   the   materials   intended   to   inflict damage.    What    are    the    explosives    in    the warhead called? 1. Stores 2. Payload 3. Expendables 4. Components 8-8. An  explosive  is  a  material  that  is  capable  of producing an explosion by its own energy. 1. True 2. False 8-9. What  are  the  two  general  classes  of  military explosives? 1. Explosive and nonexplosive 2. High and low explosives 3. Incendiary and burster explosives 4. Chemical and detonating explosives 8-10. Which of the following additives may be added to high explosives to provide desired stability and performance characteristics? 1. Powdered  metals 2. Oils 3. Waxes 4. All the above 8-11. Which of the following explosives is characterized by the extremely fast decomposition called "detonation"? 1. High  explosive 2. Low  explosive 3. Initiating  explosive 4. Auxiliary explosive 8-12. The decomposition of low explosives is known as what type of decomposition? 1. Detonation 2. Explosion 3. Deflagration 4. Combustion 8-13. Proper  identification  of  ammunition  provides which of the following types of information? 1. Service (live) ammunition 2. Nonservice (training) ammunition 3. Class of explosives 4. Each of the above 8-31