Explosions at US ammo dump.

10 Replies to “Explosions at US ammo dump.”

1. That’s just hillary’s campaign exploding.

2. This is the best post in the “comments” section of the link:
   Abu Rayhana
   ‏@AbuRaihaanah
   This is really weird! Cannot understood who and why.
   Explosion in #America|n military base in #Kanagawa, #Japan!

3. It is almost certainly sabotage. Normal ammo storage regulations, if followed make this impossible.

4. “Normal ammo storage regulations, if followed make this impossible.”
   I agree. If not sabotage, then a catastrophic and very exceptional ammunition storage safety failure – not something one generally associates with US/NATO/Western militaries.

5. Norks.

6. Will liberals like Al Gore and others blame this on Global Warming? they have done it with about everything that has been happining in the world. Enviromentlism breeds stupidity

7. Yeah well,…..
   “Normal ammo storage regulations, if followed make this impossible.”
   Dream on…. Anyone familiar with compounds that go boom know better.
   There are really no stable explosives, just some more stable than others…
   Humidity, temperature, a jolt/shock, static, or maybe just nothing at all and boom.

8. I’m very familiar with compounds that go boom. Military explosives don’t have these issues. Those that are more sensitive, like the compounds in detonators and fuses are packed in such a way that even if one did randomly go off it would not likely spread. The amount of explosive in an artillery fuse is minuscule, and it won’t set off a projectile without the aid of a booster. The booster is part of the projectile. Stuff that makes a big boom like artillery projectiles are practically inert, and they are not stores in the same buildings as fuses, for exactly this reason. Ammunition magazines are all lightning protected and grounded with electrical systems built to “explosion proof standards. Each magazine has a licensing limit of the quantity and type of ammunition that can go in it and each magazine is separated from it’s neighbours by a great enough distance that if one goes off it doesn’t set its neighbours off.
   Old fashioned commercial explosives such as “Dynamite” – a brand name for TNT – is sensitive to temperature and humidity. and can become a shock hazard if not properly stored, which is precisely why military forces don’t use it. MIlspec ammo is designed to be manufactured and put on a shelf for 50 years, and when they deteriorate, they tend to go towards not working at all rather than accidentally going off.

9. If the Norks were preparing an attack, it would behoove them to remove any large source of enemy ammo…and the Norks have been feeling their oats quite a bit lately.

10. Ken Finney >
    “Norks”
    Nah, I’m betting this is related to Obambas community organizing with China and that BIG Chinese explosion a few days ago.
    It feels like China might be returning some foreign policy of their own if I had to make a fat guess.