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With other containers, plastic bags and desiccants can be used. The resealing ammunition box is largely a NATO tradition. Warsaw Pact nations typically stored and transported ammunition in single-use "spam cans". They had crates that had a sealed zinc lining on the inside.
A worker at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant packs two cans of newly manufactured 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition into a wirebound crate. (c. 1998) Headstamp of a .50 caliber cartridge casing made at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in 1943 and recovered from the Sahuarita Bombing and Gunnery Range in 2012.
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.
The facility is in charge of demilitarization and disposal of bombs that it receives. Through this process the facility receives outdated or nonfunctional munitions and breaks them down by each component. What cannot be reused is disposed of either by blast furnace, burning, or open air detonation.
Capabilities of the plant to manufacture ammunition metal parts, and artillery and mortar rounds include forging, machining, heat-treating, welding, phosphating and painting, finishing, and destructive and non-destructive testing.
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Both cartridges are similar, but the F1A1 ammo has a green meplat tip and the headstamp has dimples at the 3 and 9 o'clock position (a peculiarity of the electric bunter used by the new cartridge-making machinery). 5.56mm NATO F3 Blank production began in 1998 and is produced in batches every three years.
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