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STANAG 4284

STANAG 4284 HMX (octogene) physical and chemical requirements

Manufacturers and buyers of HMX (octogene) explosive supplied from one NATO nation to another.

STANAG 4284 sets physical and chemical requirements for HMX (octogene) explosive delivered between NATO nations. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech standard that implements it and a NATO publication that cites it.

Edition
1
Published
1996-10-24

NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.

What it is

STANAG 4284 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on HMX (octogene), physical and chemical requirements, for deliveries of the explosive from one NATO nation to another. Edition 1 was promulgated on 24 October 1996, sponsored by CNAD, AC/326 CASG, SG/A, EMT. NATO has not released STANAG 4284 publicly, so this page describes it from a Czech national implementation and from public NATO publications that cite it.

What the Czech implementation covers

The Czech defence standard ČOS 137608, whose Czech title names it as the fourth part on raw materials for the production of military explosives, implements STANAG 4284 edition 1 together with STANAG 4022 edition 5, STANAG 4023 edition 6 and STANAG 4025 edition 3. The Czech standards index describes ČOS 137608 as setting qualitative requirements for the explosives hexogen, octogen (HMX), tritol and pentrit intended for deliveries between NATO member states, and as giving uniform test methods for evaluating their quality. ČOS 137608 covers the four explosives together rather than HMX alone, so treat this as the shared scope of the implementation, not a requirement specific only to STANAG 4284.

Where it is cited

AOP-07 cites STANAG 4284 under the data to be provided on an explosive's melting point, when applicable: "Data acquired in accordance with STANAG 4515 or other methods found acceptable for use in explosive materials STANAGs, i.e., STANAG 4284 (HMX) shall be provided." AOP-07 thus names STANAG 4284 as an example of an explosive materials STANAG whose methods are acceptable for acquiring melting point data, alongside STANAG 4515.

STANAG 4682 and AOP-4682 also list STANAG 4284 in their references, among other NATO specifications for explosives delivered from one NATO nation to another, such as those for TNT, HNS and ammonium perchlorate.

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