Special Materials in Pyrotechnics: V. Military Applications of Phosphorus and its Compounds

Abstract

Abstract This paper reviews the military applications of phosphorus in obscurants, incendiaries, float and smoke signals, friction igniters and decoys. Whereas white phosphorus (WP) is still in use as both incendiary and obscurant ammunition it has been mainly replaced today by red phosphorus (RP). For part VI see Ref. [1].