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Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command storage facility for conventional munitions and chemical weapons.The facility is located in east central Kentucky, southeast of the cities of Lexington and Richmond, Kentucky.
In January 2018 it was announced that the rifle has been adopted in 5.45×39mm and 7.62×39mm chamberings by the Russian military. [10] The first orders for the A-545 rifle were announced in mid-2020. It is believed these orders total about 500 assault rifles that were destined for Spetsnaz units and some Airborne personnel. [11] Russia AK-203
Port Chicago disaster, a deadly munitions explosion that occurred in 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California; Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage. USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed
Location Units Citations Bakovka Moscow Oblast HQ, 1st Tank Army: Mosrentgen Moscow Oblast 27th Motor Rifle Brigade Naro-Fominsk Moscow Oblast HQ, 4th Tank Division. 12th Tank Regiment 13th Tank Regiment 423rd Motor Rifle Regiment 137th Recon Battalion 275th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment 1182nd Artillery Regiment Kubinka Moscow Oblast
Because of the relative remoteness of the location, nearly all of the facility's civilian workforce lived in federally owned housing at the depot; this residential community was known as Igloo, [2] a name derived because the characteristic shape of the munitions storage buildings constructed at the site has a similar appearance to igloos. The ...
In 2021, the Pentagon briefly posted a picture of the unit insignia of the 701st Munitions Support Squadron at Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium which depicted US and Belgian flags above an eagle clutching a B-61 weapon. The photo, dated from March 2021, was removed soon after it drew media attention.
Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO) and unexploded bombs (UXBs) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, and other munitions) that did not explode when they were deployed and remain at detonative risk, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.
The ammunition depot's Military Unit Number is 72431. [1] The original directive for the establishment of the depot was issued by the Red Army General Staff on 28 July 1941. In accordance with this directive, the depot was established in Kungur, now in Perm Krai, Russia, on 11 August of the same year.