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Aerial view of the facility in 1937. The Picatinny Arsenal (/ ˈ p ɪ k ə t ɪ n i / or / ˌ p ɪ k ə ˈ t ɪ n i /) is an American military research and manufacturing facility located on 6,400 acres (2,590 ha) of land in Jefferson and Rockaway Townships in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, encompassing Picatinny Lake and Lake Denmark.
July 10, 1926: Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. 600,000 lbs. of explosives detonated as a result of a lightning strike. 187 of the 200 buildings in the arsenal were destroyed and debris was found as far as 20 miles away. Damage of close to one billion dollars in 2022 dollars. April 14, 1944: Bombay docks explosion.
In 1983, ARRADCOM's original mission was handed to the U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command (AMCCOM) at Rock Island Arsenal. However, the original weapons and munitions R&D mission remained at Picatinny after being renamed the U.S. Army Armament Research and Development Center (ARDC). In 1986, a further reorganization of all of ...
It is located at the Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York. It is a part of the Weapons & Software Engineering Center (WSEC), US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, which is located at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. Laboratory simulations are performed studying gun firing phenomena, and using static and dynamic load ...
When the city of Little Rock, Arkansas deemed a 93-year-old bridge "structurally deficient" due to its age, the city council ordered its demolition. But when workers tried to destroy it, the ...
The US Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, located at the Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, awarded a Maryland company a $50 million contract in 2018 to develop robotic ...
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