Cold Regions - Environmental Testing of Individual Soldier Equipment

摘要

This Test Operations Procedure (TOP) provides specific and general procedures for testing individual Soldier equipment in a cold regions environment. The common characteristics of a cold region are cold temperatures, strong seasonality with distinct changes in insolation (solar radiation energy), frozen atmospheric moisture, frozen ground, and freeze/thaw of water. These characteristics have moderate to high-risk impacts on the survivability of the individual Soldier and are best addressed through natural environmental testing. Methods for testing individual Soldier equipment for the effect of these cold-regions characteristics are the primary goal of this TOP.