Cooking off
Premature explosion of ammunition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with cook-off.
Cooking off (or thermally induced firing) is unfired weapon ammunition exploding prematurely due to heat in the surrounding environment.[1][2] The term is used both for detonation of ammunition not loaded into a weapon, and unintended firing of a loaded weapon due to heating.
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A fast cook-off is a cook-off caused by fire. A slow cook-off is caused by a sustained thermal event less intense than fire.
A cooked-off round may cause a sympathetic detonation of adjacent rounds. Insensitive munitions are designed to be less vulnerable to accidental firing induced by external heat.