MIL-HDBK-244A 6 apr 90.pdf

MIL-HDBK-244A
(e) Single carriage. Carriage of only one store on any given
station or pylon.
3.4 Certification of a Store. The determinationof the extent
of specific store/aircraftcompatibilityand the formal publication of all
information necessary for appropriate-employmentof a store on a specified
aircraft (aircraft series) in the applicable technical manuals and flight
operation manuals or interim supplementsor revisions’thereto.
3.5 Critical conditions. A combinationof pertinent operational
parameters expected to be encountered by an aircraft, store, stores management
system, suspension equipment or combinationsthereof; upon which the
design or operational limits of the aforesaid vehicles, devices, or portions
thereof are based.
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3.6 EmDlovment. The use of a store for the purpose and in the
manner for which it was designed, such as releasing a bomb, launching or
ejecting a missile, firing a gun, or dispensing a submunition.
(a) Release. The intentional separationof a free-fall store,
such as an “iron bomb;’’fromits suspension equipment,-for pwrpos~s of em-”
ployment of the store.
(b) Launch. The intentional separationof a self-propelled
store; such as a missile, rocket, or target-drone;for purposes of employment
of the store.
(c) Fire. The operation of a gun, gun-pod, or similar weapon,
so as to cause a bullet or projectile to leave through the barrel.
(d) Dispense. The intentionalseparation from an airborne dispenser
of devices, weapons, submunitions,liquids, gases, or other matter,
for purposes of employment of the items being dispensed.
3.7 Free fliqht (of a store). The movement or motion of a store
through the air after separation from an aircraft.
3.8 ** The change in normal load factor that results from
store release, due to the combined effects of ejection force, dynamic response,
and instantaneous aircraft gross weight decrease. The g-jump effect
is most apparent when several large stores are released simultaneouslyor a
large number of smaller stores are released with a very small ripple interval.
3.9 Hung store. Any store (or stores) which does not separate
from the aircraft when actuated for employmentor jettison.
3.10 Interval. The elapsed time between the separation of a
storeand the separation of the next store.
(a) Minimum interval. The shortest allowable or usable interval
between successively released stores that will allow safe separation of the
stores from the aircraft.
3.11 Mixed load. The simultaneouscarriage or,loading of two or
more unlike stores on a given aircraft.
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