Comments on: India’s Ammo Storage Problem

By: Robert Mathew

Robert Mathew — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Indian defence is in a perilious state of affairs. Indians are novices in all matters of defence. With their bird’s brain, they cannot see beyond a certain point. I do not think any other countries having such an open air ammo dump . May be they are duds like their thermoculer device or may be their hand granades of which 30% are duds.

By: Mazo

Mazo — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:08:54 +0000

The wiseguy “we are smarter than that” comments are ridiculous considering that the US military with all its RFID’s and yada yada put a nuclear technology on a plane and sent it to Taiwan! If the USAF is so retarded as to not know where its nukes are do you really expect the Indian military to bother about some ammo dump in some god forsaken village in the middle of nowhere ?? Besides, with an army as large as India’s, they need a LOT of ammunition and building storage yards all over the country side is foolish.
And just because ammunition is in a air conditioned silo doesnt mean its any safer from terrorists than if it was lying in the open! They can always blow a silo up just as easily as attacking an exposed ammo dump.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:41:55 +0000

Im stunned why the Pakistanis have not raided or bombed these sites Yet?
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Because of their own open pits.
AC storage pans are beyond India’s financial means and definitely out of minuscule Pak defense budget.

By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:03:12 +0000

Im stunned why the Pakistanis have not raided or bombed these sites Yet?
I mean just one bicycle bomber & Super Boom time.
Great show India.
Some security,
How much of this is in India, 70,80,50% nationwide?
Scary in deed.
Or have a Pakistani gunship open fire on dump & keep Indian Army busy fighting ammo fires with terrorisim hits nationwide

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:27:07 +0000

We have a “slight” UXO problem on Saipan. Apparently the US stored some 400,000 tons of munitions in Marpi in preparation for the invasion of mainland Japan. With the dropping of the nuclear bombs and surrender, they were not needed. Some of the munitions were cleared, but much of it remained and was allowed to become overgrown. Later, a fire swept through the area. We currently have a Brownfield Act-funded program to clean up the mess left from 60+ years ago. One of the supervisors told me this was the largest concentration of UXO he had seen in his 37 years of experience.

By: tesla

tesla — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:16:21 +0000

India’s stifling bureaucracy is legendary. There are stories about getting forms to get forms to get forms for very minor activities (with considerable lag at each junction). Supposedly there was a big red-tape reform going through India but stories like this make me skeptical.

By: flying fart prodly joyned

flying fart prodly joyned — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:28:14 +0000

@gruntdoc91
USA have weapons for 5 years unstoped bombing of Irak. there are weapon factories wich staff do enjoy a very lazy jobs by doing bombs for exports and thrd shitholes with citizen war and wait to fill out the next USA-forces bomb shortage inside of 1 week.. so nope.. unlikely..
(a same with EU, chinese and Russian weapon production lines) ok.. chinese do run at full capacity now. they have to delivery the weapons to the terrorists in Pakistan, India, Sudan and anywhere else where some stupid farmers/asozials/relligion-idiots are going to fight “evil westerners” and their cheap exports by weapons and suicide bombing)

By: gsak

gsak — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:44:16 +0000

You would need artillery support to raid the Limited Areas of Bangor or Kings Bay, and you’d be up against a full company of Marines who have been waiting their whole career to kill somebody. I wouldn’t recommend it without a Nation-State sponsor. :)

By: gruntdoc91

gruntdoc91 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:16:42 +0000

and we have an ammo shortage here in the united states.so just pack up all this ammo and sell it here problem solved.

By: flying fart prodly joyned

flying fart prodly joyned — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:37:12 +0000

@AMMO
lol. realy, you have no idea about!
aside that you look to much Pentagon sponsered films.
@Valcan
still not reading your posts..