Obscurants - Smoke & Target Defeat
Mission
The Smoke & Target Defeat Branch conducts research in the areas of obscurants, non-lethal (riot control and anti-materiel), flame and incendiary, aerodynamics and other unconventional technologies. The team develops new concepts, new materials, and the means to disseminate them.
Capabilities
- Aerodynamic testing and analysis using wind tunnels (subsonic, transonic and supersonic)
- Liquid fill stability expertise
- Non-lethal technology expertise
- Component/system design
- Aerosol wind tunnel – collector characterization
- Technology feasibility demonstration
- Skunkworks atmosphere
- Fully instrumented aerosol test chambers to measure the performance of materials and equipment in the Ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and Millimeter Ware Radar regions of the spectrum