Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre

   

The Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre (COTEC) is situated on the edge of Salisbury Plain at Gore Cross near to West Lavington.

COTEC, one of the five Centres and Groups within the Centre for Ordnance Science and Technology at Cranfield University’s Shrivenham Campus, has extensive range facilities and is accredited to EN ISO 9001:2008 to undertake demilitarisation and test and evaluation of munitions, weapon systems, pyrotechnic and explosives stores.

 

 

The test facilites and capabilities include:

 

   Ammunition Proofing

   Bullet and Fragment Attack

   Drop Testing and Spigot Intrusion   

   Explosives Trials   

   Flare Test Track

   Fragmentation Trials

   Fuel Fires

   High Altitude Test Facility

   Ordnance Proofing

   Shaped Charge Jet Attack and Sympathetic Reaction

   Slow Cook-off

   Tunnel Range

   UN Series 6c Bonfire

   Vertical recovery

 

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Mr Eric Palmer
T: +44 (0)1380 813251
E: eric@cotec.org.uk