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FM 3-50 Smoke Operations

FM 3-50

Smoke Operations

Army · FM · Dec 1990 · 115 pages

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them concealment but ultimately it proved to be a significant combat led to their demise. For US forces, multiplier. Description of Smoke and Obscurants Obscurants are man-made or naturally occurring particles suspended in the air that block or weaken (attenuate) the transmission of a particular part or parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as visible light, infrared (IR), or microwaves. Fog, mist, dust, smoke, and chaff are examples of obscurants. Smoke is an artificially created obscurant normally produced by burning or vaporizing some product. An example is the vaporization of fog oil to produce smoke from a mechanical smoke generator. We classify US and Threat smoke and obscurants, both currently fielded and developmental, as visual, bispectral, multispectral, or special-purpose obscurants.

DesignationFM 3-50

EditionDec 1990

StatusSuperseded

Pages115

FunctionCBRN

CollectionRecent Archive

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Editions 3

References 5

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