FACT SHEET

MILITEC-1 TESTING IN CONJUNCTION WITH BATTLE LAB PROJECT NO. 0030

U.S. Army Infantry School, Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab,
Fort Benning, Georgia

Battle Lab Warfighting Experiment of Rifle and Carbine Boresight Retention, May 1997

This information is provided in response to a request on testing of MILITEC-1 on weapons by military organizations. The Commander of the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia has been impressed with the performance characteristics of MILITEC-1 as a weapons lubricant. He has directed the Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab to include testing and evaluation of MILITEC-1 as an adjunct to their current test and experimentation program.

The first report on the effectiveness of MILITEC-1 was issued in May 1997 in the "Test Directorate Comments" to the Battle Lab Warfighting Experiment of Rifle and Carbine Boresight Retention. The testing involved extensive firing of MILITEC-1 treated M16A Rifles, Modular Weapon System Weapons and M4 Carbines fired during the period of November 1996 and February 1997. The conclusions were that MILITEC-1 made it easier to clean fouling from the weapons and that there were no lubrication- related stoppages experienced during the course of testing.

During the testing, the weapons were treated with MILITEC-1 prior to the initial firing. The weapons fired approximately 400 rounds a day for 10 days over a month-long period. At the end of each firing day, the weapons were cleaned and treated with MILITEC-1. During the course of the test, the weapons cleaned up thoroughly and easily and no corrosion or stoppages occurred due to lubrication failure. In the opinion of the test officer, the normal experience of firing 4,000 rounds at that rate of fire, lubricating in the same manner with CLP, one could easily expect at least half dozen stoppages due to lubrication failure.

In conversation with the Battlelab Test Manager, he stated that in other testing, MILITEC-1 treated weapons fired flawlessly, as expected, but that he was surprised to see how well the weapons functioned in the non-live fire phase. He stated that the weapons fired without stoppage when firing blank ammunition and that the heavy fouling material associated with blank firing was unexpectedly easy to clean off the weapons.

July 9, 1997