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An ammunition dump, ammunition supply point (ASP), ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. The storage of live ammunition and explosives is inherently hazardous.
The British English term ammunition dump is synonymous with ammunition depot, the term used in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
2012 Brazzaville arms dump blasts, Republic of Congo killed at least 300 people. Fires spread throughout the city, destroying homes and businesses. [3] 2019 Arys, Kazakhstan ammunition depot explosion: killed 2 people, injured dozens and 44,000 residents near the ammunition depot were evacuated. [4]
Hawthorne Army Depot surrounds the small town of Hawthorne, Nevada, where most of its employees reside.Before the facility became contractor-operated, it was staffed primarily by United States federal civil service workers and military personnel who were housed on government-owned property neighboring Hawthorne, including the now-abandoned town of Babbitt and military housing known as Schweer ...
No. 21 Maintenance Unit RAF Bomb Storage dump consisted of old gypsum mine workings which had been made into storage for a variety of ordnance; in addition to shells and bombs, the specifications included several types of weapons and up to 500 million rounds of small arms ammunition. [7]
Storemen stack 250-lb medium capacity bombs in one of the tunnels at RAF Fauld.. Over a hundred sites were considered and rejected for the RAF's underground storage; many had been pre-empted by the Army and the War Office.
The Black Hills Ordnance Depot (BHOD) was a munitions storage and maintenance facility formerly operated by the United States Army Ordnance Corps.The depot was located in Fall River County, in far southwestern South Dakota about eight miles south of the town of Edgemont.
Umatilla Chemical Depot, 1942 Umatilla Chemical Depot, 1942 UCD Map with emergency accident zones. The Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD), based in Umatilla, Oregon, was a U.S. Army installation in the United States that stored chemical weapons.