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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. There is the potential for accidents in the unloading, packing, and transfer of ammunition.
Mitholz explosion, Switzerland, an underground ammunition depot partially exploded on 19 December 1947, destroying the village and killing 9. Explosives are still on site posing a risk, their removal is planned to begin in 2030 and last 10 years. Prüm, Germany, 15 July 1949, a French Army depot with 500 tons of ammunition explodes, 12 killed
The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The initial explosion, generally believed to be ...
St. Marks Powder is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems manufacturing ball propellant [1] in Crawfordville, Florida. St. Marks makes about 6,000 tons per year, [2] making it the world's largest producer of propellant. [3] The company is a member of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI). [4]
Massive fire erupts at Indonesian ammunition depot, no deaths reported. March 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM.
The facilities at CAAA include more than 200 production buildings, a 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m 2) machine shop, roughly 1,800 storage buildings for both explosive and inert ammunition with a total capacity of 4,800,000 square feet (450,000 m 2), an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) demolition range and 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of ammunition burning grounds.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Saturday it had hit two Russian munition depots overnight, in attacks that illustrated its growing capability to strike targets deep inside Russia. Russian ...
After shifting her home port to Naval Ammunition Depot Concord, California (USA), on 15 January 1963, Firedrake resumed her familiar schedule with another western Pacific deployment (24 January - 27 July 1963), though this time she made occasional replenishment runs to warships conducting contingency operations off Vietnam in the South China Sea.