Pyrotechnics
ECBC Engineering provides research, development and limited production services on behalf of ECBC to both government and civilian organizations.
Pyrotechnics consists of engineers, chemists and technicians with a wide variety of internal capabilities, such as item design and production, tooling design and fabrication, and modification of standard U.S. and foreign ammunition.
Capabilities
- Tooling design and fabrication
- Experimental item design and fabrication
- Limited production
- Ammunition modification
- Foreign ammunition exploitation
Equipment
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Parr bomb oxygen calorimeter
- Drop sensitivity testers
- Friction sensitivity testers
- Electrostatic sensitivity testers
- Performance oriented packaging
- Burn rate test chamber
- Low ambient pressure test chamber
- One ton to 100 ton hydraulic presses
- Hobart blenders
- Glatt blenders
- Specialty molds for loading
- Laboratory fume hoods
- Acoustic octave band acoustic analyzer
- Multiband spectrophotometers
