scope:

- This specification establishes basic safety design and safety qualification criteria for air delivered dispensers and the associated submunitions.

- This standard applies to free-fall dispensers, and associated submunitions and submunition clusters. This standard does not apply to submunitions containing chemical agents designed to produce toxicological effects, biological submunitions, and nuclear submunitions. If an air delivered propulsive weapon incorporates a submunition payload section as part of the overall weapon air vehicle, then the submunition payload section shall be considered to be either a free-fall dispenser or a submunition cluster as defined by the procuring activity. As such the criteria of either paragraph 4.3.1.1.1 or 4.3.1.1.3 and the criteria of paragraph 4.3.1.1.4 shall apply to the submunition payload section.