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After World War II it became known as Base Ammunition Depot, BAD Longtown. The remaining parts of Site 1, at Smalmstown, were also designated a sub-depot of CAD Longtown. [37] The Ministry of Supply began using Site 3, to the southeast of Eastriggs, in the 1930s for ammunition storage. [13] The 1,250 acres (5 km 2) site was known as CAD Eastriggs.
Bramley Ordnance Depot on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1940. Bramley Ordnance Depot (known as Central Ammunition Depot Bramley from 1946) [3] opened on the large areas of scrub land in north Hampshire in 1917 for the manufacture and storage of ammunition. [4] A School of Ammunition was established on the site in 1922. [4]
An ammunition dump, ammunition supply point (ASP), ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. The storage of live ammunition and explosives is inherently hazardous. There is the potential for accidents in the unloading, packing, and transfer of ammunition.
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Mitholz explosion, Switzerland, an underground ammunition depot partially exploded on 19 December 1947, destroying the village and killing 9. Explosives are still on site posing a risk, their removal is planned to begin in 2030 and last 10 years. Prüm, Germany, 15 July 1949, a French Army depot with 500 tons of ammunition explodes, 12 killed
N'Djamena (Reuters) -A fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena triggered a series of blasts on Tuesday night, Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said, with ...