Posted on 02/04/2018 3:54:13 AM PST by ameribbean expat
Not too smart to store that much in munitions in one place.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
When I was in Iraq, I worked with the coalition forces- South Koreans, Bulgarians, etc... . We once had a Ukrainian munition ship arrive in Kuwait for off-load and transport into Iraq. I asked for a listing of the munitions and their compatibility codes so I could ensure right number of trucks were alloted and the trucks were loaded safely. The Ukrainians gave me a listing of the munitions, but did not know what compatibility codes were! I ended up sending the munition inventory to my ammunition unit in the US. The ammo unit sent the list to the intel guys who deciphered the ammo descriptions. The ammo guys then did "best guess" on the compatibility codes.
What really threw me for a loop was that the Ukrainian officers I worked with (logistics guys) really did not know what I was talking about. Since every Marine officer is taught compatibility codes, it brought home how well trained the US military is.
OBTW. A properly designed ammo dump is built so that if one ammo bunker explodes, nothing happens to the rest, i.e. distance between bunkers, bunkers are designed to vent upwards, etc... .
It’s “odd” that there would be two drones hovering and focused on the ammo dump EXACTLY when it exploded.
Makes one think someone knew what was about to happen.
Great video BTW.
Going to check that link now.
Those east of the Balkans have never understood the proper storage of munitions, fuel, explosive gases, chemical weapons, nuclear waste, etc.
Compare that to a typical US Army motor pool, that actually needs to be mapped to have a half dozen separate storage sites for even common things.
Not really. Ordanance handling facilities are designed so that the detonating of one doesn’t immediately cause a chain reaction detonating all of them in the area by one action. In other words, one accident doesn’t cause all the others to blow up at the same time.
It doesn’t prevent secondary explosions from projectiles causing other secondary explosions.
Pure luck there wasnt an accident.
Saw an ammo dump explode in Quang Tri.
Sappers snuck in and set it off about 1300.
The cook opened the mess hall and we got out chairs and
watched God knows how much firing off that night.
weqpons cqn be conceived hundreds of years before technology makes them a reality. Leonardo Da Vinci conceived the tank before the internal combustion engine arrived. Jules Verne the true submarine long before nuclear reactors. And so forth...
Regards,
Old news from 2017.
SCTV always funny and Red Green show.
Spare the tape spoil the job
Then it’s one of the earlier ones I was thinking of that were caused by an accident at the facility, not by a drone. One of those went on for days.
This is why you store your ammo in separate bunkers so that there aren’t sympathetic detonations. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
> Great video BTW.
I’d be breaking out the beers for that one.
That’s gonna set off a few car alarms.
Beats watching the Super Bowl.
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