Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-STD-709D TABLE III.
Application of Color Coding for Tier II 23 TIER AMMUNITION COLORS Body Marking 1/ Band II High Explosive, (HE), except 20MM Olive Drab Yellow 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ II High Explosive, (HE), 20MM Yellow Black None II Explosive Binary Munitions Olive Drab Yellow Broken Yellow 6/ II High Explosive Plastic (HEP) Olive Drab Yellow Black II High Explosive Anti-tank (HEAT) Black Yellow None II Antipersonnel and anti-tank mines Olive Drab Yellow 3/ II Incendiary Light Red Black None II High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) Yellow Black Light Red II Armor Piercing Incendiary (API) Black White Light Red II Armor Piercing (AP) (a) with bursting charge (b) without bursting charge Black Black Yellow White None II Canister Olive Drab White None II Flechette loaded Olive Drab White 7/ 8/ II Illuminating 9/ (a) separate loading (b) fixed or semi-fixed Olive Drab White White Black White None II Practice (a) with low explosive to indicate functioning (b) with high explosive to indicate functioning (c) without explosive to indicate functioning Light Blue White Brown Yellow None II Screening or Marking Smoke Ammunition (a) Filled with other than white (b) Filled with white phosphorus Light Green Light Green Black Light Red None 10/ 11/ II Inert ammunition not designed to be delivered in a delivery system Bronze Black None II Chemical (a) Filled with a riot control agent (b) Filled with an incapacitating agent (c) Filled with a toxic chemical agent other than binary gents.
(d) Filled with a toxic chemical binary nerve Gray Gray Gray Gray Dark Red Violet Dark Green Dark Green 1 Dark Red 10/ 1 Violet 10/ 1 Dark Green 10/ 1 Broken Dark Green 10/ 12/ 13/