[Scrambler Bob]

I think all the VX rounds we had in the 70’s and 80’s were binary.
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If they are binary, are the components configured in the same round, or put together before firing?

If binary, the components are fairly tame, and destruction should be clean and easy.

And if binary, the agent is NOT VX, yet.

[GreyFriar]

The concept of the binary rounds was to have the containers with the two components to break when the round was fired and be mixed into VX by the spin of the shell enroute to its target. At least that was the theory I recall being told. We never fired any, thus I don’t know. I don’t think the Army wanted to have one explode on the Grafenwoehr impact area or the impact areas at Ft. Knox and Ft. Hood.

[damper99]

I think the problem rounds at Blue Grass Depot were old ones prior to the binary ones. Seems that I once read they were from the late 40s and 50s.