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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Okay, I guess I'll give it a shot.
Looks like a stack of artillery projos, I would guess 122mm or 152mm. Most appear to be unfused or have had the fuzes removed. That means that they are safe to handle. Any with fuzes remaining are potential explosive frag hazards. This looks like a clean-up dump point. As they are right now, this is an IED bomber's treasure trove, enough stuff there to keep him in business for years.
Once you have verified the rounds are HE, as they appear to be (don't want to create a nice Sarin clowd or even just a bunch of WP starting wildfires), the unfuzed ones can be removed and laid out in rows for destruction. If the area was safe and destruction in place were desired, you could, with a lot of hassle, risk of some flying away, and probably some missed rounds, place C-4 on each round you could reach, dual prime, and BIP.
Personally, I would prefer to put them in rows for better management, place M-112 charge blocks of C-4 across the rounds and prime normally. I would be cautious as it would be very simple to have set this up as an EOD killer with either a command detonated or boobytrapped round underneath witing for the team to arrive. It does look abandoned though.
Any with fuzes could be any of a variety of arty fuzes, most likely impact. Once laid out, the MSD would be that of the arty rounds, unless the Net Explosive Weight of the shot exceeded the arty MSD. I would go with the further of these two numbers.
You can safely move the unfuzed rounds by any means desired, to include a bucket loader or a mule.
If possible, I would BIP any of the rounds that still had fuzes.
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Okay first off, Damn Charlies WTF. U have a Ret QP telling you how to do your JOB. I thought you were the ones that are to tell the O's how to do the Eng stuff. Well, at least advise them on their (ENG) decisions; so were are you at here?
Off the rant
TR pretty good.
Type by funtcion:
Yes, they are a mixture of projectiles (105mm to 122mm to 155mm). First thing I see is no fuzes in the ordnance as pointed out by Pin and TR. So we have HE, FRAG- Safety hazard. By the color marking you can't tell if the turely are HE rds -
WHY is this?? Look at it as if they had a payload ("Baseballs & Golfballs"(BLU 63) or ejection rounds (Illum) you may have a fire / WP Safety Hazard. Keep in mind that your safeties (SH) would be IAW the payload encountered within the pile. None in this one as far as we can see.
Yes you have to keep in I would also be concerned with potential booby-traps depending on situation and location. If you find them in a pile in the open to stacked in a room inside a building. Remember Booby-traps. Once BT is ruled out you could move everything to a SDA.
Charlies, no good answer on if you can move them. Yes we have how we would move these UXOs. But I want to know if you can, are 18 Series allowed to move, authorized to move a UXO, ETC.
If so, WHY or why NOT.
Disposal of Pile or UXOs.
Depending on the size of the disposal area you have or can set up, you could lay them out stacked 3 high depending on the room you have. Best to trench out an area to place these UXOs into. Keeping any WP / Illum will be placed in to the middle or on top to be blown up and expend all of the WP etc... as opposed to blowing it in the ground - not what you want to happen. WP keep in mind also that it "flies" out about 200 to 400 meters. HOT!! C-4 arcoss the tops, dual primed, and watch the fire works for a good SD for the FRAG distance.
What is the K-factor here?
Pinhead - good job... MAX_TAB ??'s answered??