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Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) is an ammunition manufacturing complex for the U.S. military with facilities located in Pulaski and Montgomery Counties, Virginia.The primary mission of the RFAAP is to manufacture propellants and explosives in support of field artillery, air defense, tank, missile, aircraft, and naval weapons systems.
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant explosion, a 1942 explosion that was felt 100 miles away; Air raid on Bari, a port disaster in Italy in 1943; SS El Estero, ammunition ship that caught fire in New York Harbor in 1943; Naval Station Norfolk, September 17, 1943 accidental truckload explosion of 24 aerial depth charges, killing 40 and injuring 386 [6]
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is a United States Navy base in York County, James City County, and Newport News in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.It provided a weapons and ammunition storage and loading facility for ships of the United States Atlantic Fleet, and more recently, for those from the Fleet Forces Command.
The blast took place in a primer mixing cell at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, where the components of munitions are mixed together. One killed, 4 injured in explosion at US Army plant Skip ...
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Videos shared on social media show plumes of smoke as explosions struck at an ammunition dump in northern Crimea on Tuesday, according to Russian authorities. Photo: Sergei Malgavko/TASS/Zuma Press
JMC has a partnership with the ARDEC and PEO-Ammunition to manage ammunition over its life cycle. ARDEC, which is headquartered in New Jersey and has an office on Rock Island Arsenal, is the research and development arm. PEO-Ammunition and its project managers are the ammunition life cycle managers and are responsible for acquisition of ammunition.
In 1940–1941 the US Military decided to build a manufacturing plant for gunpowder and other ammunition needed by the military. Thus the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, or the "Arsenal" as it would come to be called, joined the railroad and Lynchburg Foundry as major employers creating a huge influx in population. Many families moved to the area.