Ammunition bunkers

Huge amounts of loose sediment (rock fragments, sands, and silts) resulted from the digging of thousands of ground fortficadons in Kuwait In the Ras As Subiyah area (Northeastern part of Kuwait), as an example, about 1,041,742.3 m of loose sediments were excavated as a result of construction of 4,569,7,142, and 3,959 ammunition bunkers, living accommodation bunkers, and weapon pits, respectively [4]. 

Portion no. Ammunition bunkers Living accommodation bunkers Weapon pit Total bunkers and pits Area [km ]... 

One ammunition-can flame bunker bomb requires the following eight items ... 

Figure 7-4. Example of bunker bomb made from an ammunition...

Joint Pub 3-11 (Draft) covers the procedures to warn and report NBC releases including Releases Other Than Attack (ROTA). This information is not reproduced here since the publication is still under review. ROTAs include NBC releases due to damaged or destroyed storage bunkers, transport vehicles, storage or production facilities, ammunition supply sites, power plants, etc. It also includes the use of radiation dispersal devices. 

In Switzerland, a number of artillery bunkers are used for training with live ammunition. The question arose whether ultra-high-speed fire extinguishing systems should be installed to increase the safety of the troops. A fire hazard from the considerable amount of propellant in the closed area cannot be excluded completely but would have catastrophic consequences for the shooting crew (up to more than 20 victims) as the accident in a Swedish coast artillery bunker in 1984 [16] or the catastrophe in the guntower of the U.S.S. Iowa in 1987 [17] demonstrated. The investigation clearly showed (Fig. 12.18) that such installations have to be planned to meet the safety criteria. 

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