AVIATION ORDNANCE UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔Reasons accidents occur? - ✔✔Lack of knowledge, complacency, fatigue,
misunderstanding, lack of proper supervision, not using/following steps in approved
checklists.
✔✔General Ordnance Safety Precautions - ✔✔1. Personnel must be qualified&certified
2. The terms "shall, must, will" must be obeyed.
3. No Smoking or eating
4. Do not work beneath suspended weapons or stores.
5. Keep time in front/behind ordnance to a minimum.
6. Safety devices will stay in effect until no longer needed.
7. Lightning within 5 miles - terminate operations.
✔✔EMI - ✔✔Electromagnetic Interference:
interference and disturbance that causes the degradation of performance in systems or
equipment.
✔✔EMI is the loss of what? - ✔✔Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
✔✔EMI Triangle - ✔✔Source, Victim, and Coupling Path
✔✔Natural Sources of EMI - ✔✔cosmic, lightning, precipitation static, and electrostatic
discharge.
✔✔Manufactured Sources of EMI - ✔✔Incidental: generated by man-made sources.
Functional: generated by electrical and electronic systems.
✔✔Types of Coupling Paths - ✔✔Radiated, Conducted, or a combination.
✔✔Grounding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. The connection of an
equipment case, frame, or chassis to an object or vehicle structure to ensure a common
potential.
✔✔Bonding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. The establishment of a low
impedance path between two metal surfaces.
✔✔Shielding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. A barrier used to protect
electronic components. Usually a screen or braided material.
✔✔Filtering - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. A network of one or more
electronic components designed to offer comparatively little opposition to certain
frequencies.
, ✔✔Reporting EMI - ✔✔Supervisor or Quality Assurance
✔✔HERO - ✔✔Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance.
HERO Safe
HERO Unsafe
HERO Susceptible
HERO Unreliable
✔✔HERO Safe - ✔✔ordnance that has little chance of being affected by RF energy.
General-purpose bombs, rockeye, MLMs, and torpedoes. All Percussion fired.
✔✔HERO Susceptible - ✔✔ordnance that contains electro-explosive devices that have
been proven to be adversely affected by RF energy. Photoflash cartridges and SUU-44
launchers.
✔✔HERO Unsafe - ✔✔ordnance that has the greatest susceptibility to RF energy.
BQM-34 target drone, rocket motors, untested items.
✔✔HERO Unreliable - ✔✔ordnance that is HERO Safe or HERO Susceptible whose
performance is degraded when wiring/components are exposed to an RF environment.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-105 (CVNATOPS) - ✔✔CNO and NATOPS, standardizes ground
and flight procedures but does not include tactical doctrine used for fleet activities.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-103 - ✔✔Same as CVNATOPS, used strictly for shore-based
activities.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-106 - ✔✔Used for conventional handling aboard LHA, LHD, and
MCS vessels. (Afloat)
✔✔Ordnance Certification Program - ✔✔To establish a standard qual/cert program for
ALL ordnance personnel.
✔✔You must follow these two items when handling any ordnance: - ✔✔Checklists and
standard operating procedures.
✔✔Who can certify ordnance personnel? - ✔✔Only the CO or the designated
Certification Board Chairperson
✔✔How are explosive devices segregated? - ✔✔Family groups
✔✔Team Member - ✔✔Lowest cert. Basic qual, aware of basic safety precautions
relative to the task and explosive devices concerned, formal and/or on-the-job training.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔Reasons accidents occur? - ✔✔Lack of knowledge, complacency, fatigue,
misunderstanding, lack of proper supervision, not using/following steps in approved
checklists.
✔✔General Ordnance Safety Precautions - ✔✔1. Personnel must be qualified&certified
2. The terms "shall, must, will" must be obeyed.
3. No Smoking or eating
4. Do not work beneath suspended weapons or stores.
5. Keep time in front/behind ordnance to a minimum.
6. Safety devices will stay in effect until no longer needed.
7. Lightning within 5 miles - terminate operations.
✔✔EMI - ✔✔Electromagnetic Interference:
interference and disturbance that causes the degradation of performance in systems or
equipment.
✔✔EMI is the loss of what? - ✔✔Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
✔✔EMI Triangle - ✔✔Source, Victim, and Coupling Path
✔✔Natural Sources of EMI - ✔✔cosmic, lightning, precipitation static, and electrostatic
discharge.
✔✔Manufactured Sources of EMI - ✔✔Incidental: generated by man-made sources.
Functional: generated by electrical and electronic systems.
✔✔Types of Coupling Paths - ✔✔Radiated, Conducted, or a combination.
✔✔Grounding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. The connection of an
equipment case, frame, or chassis to an object or vehicle structure to ensure a common
potential.
✔✔Bonding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. The establishment of a low
impedance path between two metal surfaces.
✔✔Shielding - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. A barrier used to protect
electronic components. Usually a screen or braided material.
✔✔Filtering - ✔✔Method of preventing/controlling EMI. A network of one or more
electronic components designed to offer comparatively little opposition to certain
frequencies.
, ✔✔Reporting EMI - ✔✔Supervisor or Quality Assurance
✔✔HERO - ✔✔Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance.
HERO Safe
HERO Unsafe
HERO Susceptible
HERO Unreliable
✔✔HERO Safe - ✔✔ordnance that has little chance of being affected by RF energy.
General-purpose bombs, rockeye, MLMs, and torpedoes. All Percussion fired.
✔✔HERO Susceptible - ✔✔ordnance that contains electro-explosive devices that have
been proven to be adversely affected by RF energy. Photoflash cartridges and SUU-44
launchers.
✔✔HERO Unsafe - ✔✔ordnance that has the greatest susceptibility to RF energy.
BQM-34 target drone, rocket motors, untested items.
✔✔HERO Unreliable - ✔✔ordnance that is HERO Safe or HERO Susceptible whose
performance is degraded when wiring/components are exposed to an RF environment.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-105 (CVNATOPS) - ✔✔CNO and NATOPS, standardizes ground
and flight procedures but does not include tactical doctrine used for fleet activities.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-103 - ✔✔Same as CVNATOPS, used strictly for shore-based
activities.
✔✔NAVAIR 00-80T-106 - ✔✔Used for conventional handling aboard LHA, LHD, and
MCS vessels. (Afloat)
✔✔Ordnance Certification Program - ✔✔To establish a standard qual/cert program for
ALL ordnance personnel.
✔✔You must follow these two items when handling any ordnance: - ✔✔Checklists and
standard operating procedures.
✔✔Who can certify ordnance personnel? - ✔✔Only the CO or the designated
Certification Board Chairperson
✔✔How are explosive devices segregated? - ✔✔Family groups
✔✔Team Member - ✔✔Lowest cert. Basic qual, aware of basic safety precautions
relative to the task and explosive devices concerned, formal and/or on-the-job training.
