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5 th International Anatolian Energy Symposium , Trabzon, Turkey, 24 - 25 March 2021, pp.335-345, (Full Text)
Fires are disasters caused by various reasons and have severe consequences, including loss of life and property.
Fires especially threaten forests, strategic areas such as chemical production and storage facilities, oil and natural
gas pipelines, ammunition storage areas. Firefighting organizations around the world try to combat fires
effectively by using land-based and aerial firefighting methods. This study aims to design and prototype smart
fire extinguishing ammunition, which is a product that can be used in aerial firefighting methods to fires and is
much more effective than the existing tools. The ammunition is thrown from the aircraft to the location of the
fire and cuts the contact of the flames with air and forces the fire to extinguish. The ammunition contains a
powder-extinguishing agent, the primary substance of which is boron. The extinguishing ammunition is designed
based on the dimensions of general-purpose ammunition from air-to-ground used by many NATO countries
today. Thus, this extinguishing ammunition can quickly load onto the aircraft without any modification on it.
This feature will facilitate the export of the product to all countries that use NATO standards in aircraft. A
software was developed to enable the fire extinguishing ammunition to function autonomously. A prototype of
fire extinguishing ammunition was produced. We predict that smart fire extinguishing ammunition will bring a
new product that has never been done before to the fire extinguishing industry, which has a size of 90 billion
dollars worldwide. As a result, this situation will provide a significant amount of foreign currency inflow to our
country.