An electric initiator is a component that is located in the thermal battery or propulsion unit to transfer energy first. Initiator tests include X-ray test, non-destructive leak testing, circuit/insulation resistance test, and CBT (Closed Bomb Test). Among them, CBT is a key element in evaluating the performance of initiator, and the reliability of the test results is important for judgment of the required performance. This study conducted inter-laboratory comparative tests to secure the reliability and repeatability & reproducibility of the initiator CBT. A comparative test was conducted with a mass production acceptance test agency to verify whether the reliability was secured.

Since guided missiles with the characteristics of the one-shot system remain stored throughout their entire life cycle, it is important to maintain their storage reliability until the launch. As part of maintaining storage reliability, period of preventive test is set up to perform preventive periodic test, in this case failure detection rate has a great effect on setting up period of preventive test to maintain storage reliability. The proposed method utilizes failure rate predicted by the software on the basis of MIL-HDBK-217F and failure mode analyzed through FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) using data generated from the actual field. The failure detection rate of using the proposed method is applied to set periodic test of the actual guided missile. The proposed method in this paper has advantages in accuracy and objectivity because it utilizes a large amount of data generated in the actual field.