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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.
Location Founded Products Output & Production Numbers Alexander, John & Co Charleston, South Carolina: Lightfoot Arms, Atlanta Georgia Athens Steam Company Athens, Georgia: experimental Double-barreled cannon: Atlanta Machine Works: Atlanta, Georgia: 1848 Ordnance, rifled cannons Augusta Machine Works Augusta, Georgia: Revolvers Leech & Rigdon ...
Poacher House, building 112–2. The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was an Army manufacturing plant built in 1941 between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants: Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 (IOW#1): (3,564.71 acres) made smokeless powder
With this system, only the very back of the cannon's breech had to be reinforced against high firing pressures. Rheinmetall designed an anti-tank cannon using their "high-low pressure system" that fired a standard general-purpose high explosive (HE) 8.1-cm mortar bomb which had been modified to function as an anti-tank round with a shaped charge.
When construction on a house near the site began in the 1950s, “they found a lot of artifacts from the iron furnace,” Stout said, “including a cannon fragment.
Location: The intersection of Fifth and Locust Sts. stretching approx. 125 ft. N. and 180 ft. S. of Locust and one block W., Middletown, Indiana Coordinates: Area: 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005 Mahon, John K. (September 1958).
The first completed shelter, located in Indiana, [5] was built during the Cold War to withstand a near direct hit from a 20-megaton nuclear bomb. [6] With accommodations for 80 people, the Indiana complex has a few spots left due to member relocations and family changes.