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  • Jacksonville man’s dog finds decades-old unexploded military weapon after digging in backyard

    03/25/2024 5:45:28 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 30 replies
    actionnewsjax.com ^ | March 24, 2024 | Nicholas Brooks
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local neighborhood is wondering how this decades-old military weapon ended up in someone’s backyard. Mathew Sims says when he picked up the military munition, he quickly realized what it was that he was holding in his hands and slowly put it back where it was. Homeowner Mathew Sims said, “Okay is this live? You panic, then you drop.” That’s what was going through Sims’s mind when he found this, an unexploded military weapon in his backyard Wednesday located at 15th Street E. Sims told us he didn’t want to be on camera but says he was...
  • Air Force loses box of grenade rounds in North Dakota. It wants them back.

    05/15/2018 2:45:45 PM PDT · by MplsSteve · 76 replies
    St Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 5/12/18 | Some Staff Reporter...
    The U.S. Air Force lost a box of grenade rounds in northwest North Dakota that fell off a Humvee earlier this month, and now is seeking the public’s help in locating the explosives. A 91st Missile Wing Security Forces team from the Minot Air Force Base lost the ammunition container on May 1 while traveling between missile sites in Mountrail County, according to a news release the Air Force issued late Friday. The team was traveling on rough gravel roads about four miles west of Parshall when the back hatch of the vehicle opened, and an ammunition container fell out,...
  • Russian military showing capabilities no-one expected

    10/29/2015 7:37:20 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 81 replies
    9 News ( Australia) ^ | 10:17am October 30, 2015 | Brandon Livesay
    Russia has been flexing its military might in Syria and the sheer power and capability on display has left Western analysts shocked. As Vladimir Putin ramps up attacks on ISIL, the true power the Russian president wields has become more apparent. The latest video to emerge from the battlefields shows a mountain under fire from Russian flamethrower missiles known as the 'Blazing Sun'. The explosion from these high-powered weapons triggers a wave of heat 1000°C which burns all of the oxygen nearby, leaving victims unable to breathe. This war machine has been used by the Russian military for years, but...
  • Military Ordnance In Gulf of Mexico Poses Threat To Shipping

    10/08/2012 9:33:10 PM PDT · by ExxonPatrolUs · 22 replies
    PRNewswire-USNewswire ^ | Sep. 28, 2012 | Texas A&M University
    Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs and other military ordnance that were dumped decades ago in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats to shipping lanes and the 4,000 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf, warns two Texas A&M University oceanographers. William Bryant and Neil Slowey, professors of oceanography who have more than 90 years of combined research experience in all of the Earth's oceans, along with fellow researcher Mike Kemp of Washington, D.C., say millions of pounds of bombs are scattered over the...
  • Sniper Teams to Increase Accuracy with Guided Rounds

    10/18/2010 9:29:49 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 26 replies
    Defense Talk ^ | 10/18/2010 | Defense Talk
    Sniper teams remain the most lethal force on the battlefield and have been credited with many successful engagements. As effective as sniper teams are however, their accuracy is fundamentally limited by random variables such as changing winds, muzzle velocity dispersions and round-to-round variations. The DARPA EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program aims to maximize the effectiveness of sniper teams while improving their safety. Through EXACTO, DARPA is developing a guided round capability in a .50 caliber platform. It is currently intended to provide snipers the capability to engage targets moving at much greater speeds, in tougher environmental conditions such as...
  • Bethlehem Considers Bear Ordinance ( New Hampshire )

    08/21/2009 9:12:44 PM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies · 755+ views
    WMUR ^ | August 21, 2009
    Large groups of bears are creating a nuisance for residents in Bethlehem, and the problem has gotten so bad the town is considering an ordinance. Officials said bears are rummaging through trash bins, eating and attacking farm animals and in some cases coming dangerously close to family pets. "I've been here for 15 years and never saw them until this year," said resident Bob Kimmerle. Kimmerle said he had to fire a gun in the air to scare a bear away after it ate two roosters near his fence. "He put his arm through and pulled them through,"
  • U.S. fast-tracks new bunker-buster bomb

    08/17/2009 8:29:35 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 59 replies · 3,995+ views
    Space War ^ | United Press International | United Perss International
    Amid continuing tension over political upheaval in Iran, the U.S. Defense Department says it wants to accelerate production of a 30,000-pound "ultra-large bunker-buster" bomb designed to destroy deeply buried installations. The Pentagon has requested Congress to provide the necessary funding to ensure that the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a next-generation bomb known as MOP and built by Boeing, would be ready by July 2010, spokesman Bryan Whitman said on Aug. 3. The non-nuclear weapon will be the biggest conventional bomb the United States has ever deployed. It carries 5,300 pounds of high explosive inside a 25.5-foot bomb casing of hardened steel...
  • Civil War Cannonball Kills Relic Collector

    05/02/2008 8:39:16 PM PDT · by fishhound · 69 replies · 946+ views
    Aol, AP ^ | May 2,2008 | STEVE SZKOTAK,
    CHESTER, Va. (May 2) - Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics -- weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms. But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway. More than 140...
  • Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast

    05/02/2008 5:26:59 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 39 replies · 458+ views
    FOX/AP ^ | May 02, 2008
    Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast May 02, 2008 CHESTER, Va. — Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown. As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms. But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring...
  • How warheads made an unplanned flight (B-52 flight Minot to Barksdale AGM-129 Snafu)

    09/24/2007 8:00:15 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 105 replies · 3,674+ views
    WaPo via LA Times ^ | September 23, 2007 | Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus
    WASHINGTON -- -- Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect a set of unarmed cruise missiles bound for a weapons graveyard. They quickly pulled out a dozen cylinders, all of which appeared identical from a cursory glance, and hauled them along Bomber Boulevard to a waiting B-52 bomber. The airmen attached the gray missiles to the plane's wings, six on each side. After eyeballing the missiles on the right side, a flight officer signed a manifest that listed a dozen...
  • Explosive Ordnance Marines will blow your cache

    03/07/2007 5:43:48 PM PST · by SandRat · 10 replies · 333+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Staff Sgt. T.G. Kessler
    CAMP ELLIS, Iraq (March 7, 2007) -- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines attached to the California-based Battalion Landing Team 2nd Marines, 4th Marine Regiment have supported current operations in the Barwanah area by disposing of weapons and explosives found in caches throughout the area. To date, EOD has disposed of more than 2,000-plus pounds of weapons and explosives since operations began here in late November. According to Gunnery Sgt. Aaron M. Salyi, EOD chief from Combat Logistics Battalion 15 attached to BLT 2/4, the weeks in Barwanah have not slowed much since the beginning of operations. Though the weapons caches have...
  • Clearing Lebanon's residue of war (unexploded ordnance)

    09/27/2006 1:36:56 PM PDT · by NYer · 6 replies · 224+ views
    BBC ^ | September 25, 2006 | Katya Adler
    It may not be quite what you expect - a team of Iraqi Kurds teaching explosives clearance techniques in the bombed-out villages of southern Lebanon - but here they are. Sharing the knowledge - a munitions training session The men have been flown out by the British charity Mines Awareness Group (MAG), the only non-commercial munitions clearance body in Lebanon, a country still littered with unexploded devices more than a month after the recent war with Israel. "Hundreds of thousands of civilian lives are at risk," said Nick Guest, MAG's Technical Operations Manager. "The important thing after this conflict, any...
  • Red Dragon ordnance Marines maintain offensive, defensive firepower

    05/05/2006 4:36:38 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 826+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Cpl. Jonathan K. Teslevich
    AL TAQADDUM, Iraq (May 4, 2006) -- A line of tracers and a corkscrewing missile flash up from the ground a thousand feet below a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, which immediately takes evasive action. Trailing bright sparkles of light emit from its aft sections, as a gout of flame spits from its side-door machine gun. Saving the helicopter from enemy fire are the flying skills of its pilots, the deadly aim of its enlisted crew and an electronic countermeasure flare system. The job of maintaining the M2 .50-caliber machine guns and flares that are instrumental in the helicopter's survival belongs...
  • Iraq's wild West tamed by Gunfighters deadly ordnance

    05/01/2006 5:46:16 PM PDT · by SandRat · 4 replies · 420+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Cpl. Jonathan K. Teslevich
    AL TAQADDUM, Iraq (May 1, 2006) -- More than 100 years have passed since the fastest pistol-drawing gunfighters dominated the saloons and streets of the American West. Halfway around the world, a different kind of gunfighter is leaving its own mark on insurgent forces in Iraq's own wild west, the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. Known as the Gunfighters, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, have been patrolling the Iraqi skies with UH-1N Huey and AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters for nearly seven months, ready to fire their deadly suite of weapons...
  • Paperweight Explodes, Severs Teacher's Hand

    04/04/2006 3:45:50 PM PDT · by Trueblackman · 33 replies · 1,104+ views
    foxnews ^ | 04 April 2006 | trueblackman
    Paperweight Explodes, Severs Teacher's Hand Tuesday , April 04, 2006 VENTURA, Calif. — A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class. Part of Colla's right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured. He was reported...
  • Iraqi firefighters turn in ordnance to U.S. troops

    12/07/2005 3:37:22 PM PST · by SandRat · 7 replies · 381+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Dec 6, 2005 | Maj. Russ Goemaere
    BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Dec. 6, 2005) -- Iraqi firefighters from the Rusafa Fire Station in east Baghdad turned over more than 200 rounds of unexploded ordnance to elements of Task Force Baghdad for destruction Dec. 1. The firefighters gave 65 artillery rounds and 143 mortar rounds to elements of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery. This is a continuing effort and partnership between the leadership of the Rusafa Fire Station and 1/9 FA to rid the area of unexploded ordnance and denying terrorists potential bomb-making material. "On Nov. 3, we secured a slightly smaller, but still significant, load of munitions...
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen Share Expertise

    11/16/2005 6:04:09 PM PST · by SandRat · 4 replies · 506+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Nov 16, 2005 | Staff Sgt. Nathan Gallahan
    FAIRCHILD AFB, Wa., Nov. 16, 2005 — Explosive ordnance disposal personnel worked hand-in-hand with multiple federal agencies at the Grand Coulee Dam, Oct. 4 - 6, for an exercise titled "Watchful Sentinel." "The focus of the exercise was to evaluate Special Response Forces standard operation procedures, along with coordination between the Special Response Forces and supporting agencies, via a series of realistic events," said U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Burleigh, explosive ordnance disposal craftsman, 92nd Civil Engineering Squadron. "Some of the calls we respond to involve ordnance left behind in a deceased veteran's war chest. Other times, we may...
  • Ordnance Disposal Reclaims Farmland, Saves Lives

    10/28/2005 12:02:40 AM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 269+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Oct 27, 2005 | Army Staff Sgt. Raymond Drumsta
    U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. David Diceglie, 42nd Infantry Division Artillery, holds some captured enemy ammunition at a cache site. Diceglie was one of a team of U.S. soldiers assigned to Task Force Liberty who supervised the destruction of caches like this one. Photo courtesy of 42nd Infantry Division Artillery Ordnance Disposal Reclaims Farmland, Saves Lives Unexploded ordnance in Iraq includes a wide assortment of artillery, rocket and mortar rounds and in some cases, anti-ship cruise missiles. By U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Raymond Drumsta 42nd Infantry Division Public Affairs FORWARD OPERATING BASE SUMMERALL, BAYJI, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2005 — In...
  • Army investigating ordnance found in driveway material

    02/26/2005 11:51:15 AM PST · by Excuse_My_Bellicosity · 50 replies · 3,479+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 2/15/2004 | Steve Goldstein
    WASHINGTON - Prepare to be shell-shocked: Ordnance experts are scrambling to defuse driveways that have the potential to explode. The U.S. Army is investigating incidents of unexploded World War I-era munitions showing up in clamshells used as paving material for driveways and parking areas in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The ordnance was dredged up over the past 18 months from the ocean floor during mechanical clam harvesting operations off the New Jersey coast, in the vicinity of Atlantic City, according to Robert Williams of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is conducting the probe. More than 300 munitions -...
  • Teams Measure Success by Lives Saved

    02/18/2005 7:31:37 PM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 130+ views
    DefendAmerica News ^ | Feb. 18, 2005 | U.S. Army Pfc. Abel Trevino
    Teams Measure Success by Lives Saved Explosive ordnance disposal personnel tackle a dangerous task; the demand for their expertise has increased for both military and civilian operations. One unit at Logistics Support Area Anaconda has the daunting task of getting up close and personal with the devices designed to kill soldiers. The 716th Ordnance Company is a 19-man unit with elements spread throughout Iraq minimizing the dangers to troops. “Our primary mission is to ensure the battlefield is safe for the warfighters,” said U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Bobich, explosive ordnance technician. “We go out and clear improvised explosive devices,...