Ammunition stockpile reduction and security Mr Sanko Bakija, MoD - - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009.

RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009 REPUBLIC OF CROATIA MINISTRY OF DEFENSE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES

Ammunition stockpile reduction and security

Mr Sanko Bakija, MoD - M3 Ltc Miroslav Bogović, MoD - M1 Maj Igor Lončarić, GS - J4

May 5 – 7, 2009, Zagreb, Croatia

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Historical background: Origins of ammunition in the Croatian Armed Forces:

• captured ammo during war (1991-1995)
• domestic production
• imported ammunition and explosives

Ammunition producers:

• ex YU ammunition
• domestic production during war, based on “eastern”

standards,

• ex USSR ammunition,
• “western” type ammo – imported

CAF ammunition stockpile

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

REMOVE FROM FIELD STORAGES SUPPLY

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Types of ammunition storages

• above ground, underground, earth covered (ECM) -

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

1995.

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ammo storages

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ammo storages

2009. Ammunition Storages

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Ammunition maintenance in CAF

MoD M3 / GS J-4 3

Ammunition maintenance Basic maintenance

• storage
• transporation
• handling
• stocking
• venting
• visual inspection

Ammunition testing

Ballistic firing Electrical testing Testing EM components & pyro devices Laboratory testing

Data collecting & analysis

DECISION

DISPOSAL

REPARATION

STORE QUICK SPENDING

Ammunition surveillance division (SC)

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Ammunition storage and inspection

• Ammunition stored and managing – according national &

international norms (STANAG - AASTP 1- 3),

• MoD – M3 and GS Support Command - responsible for

ammunition acceptance in the ammunition storages,

• GS Support Command (Ammunition Surveillance Division-

ASD) - responsible for ammo storage, management and inspection during service life,

• ASD has sections for:
• explosive materials managing,
• system ammunition section for managing and testing,
• laboratory testing and coordination civil test capacity.

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Future ammunition stockpile in the CAF

• Modern and small armed forces - downsized and

restructured.

• According Long Term Development Plan 2008 - 2015,

CAF will have approx. 17.000 tons of all types ammunition,

• Ammunition surplus: approx. 21.000 tons brutto

(non perspective, unserviceable, unstable).

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Surplus ammunition groups

• Infantry ammunition (14.5 mm and below): 15 %,
• Mortar bombs (60 – 120 mm): 5 %,
• Cannon, tank and cluster ammunition (20 – 203 mm): 42 %,
• Missiles – MLRS and anti-tank: 15 %,
• Anti-tank mines: 10 %,
• Torpedoes: 1 %,
• Aircraft bombs: 2 %,
• Bulk explosives and propellants, fuzes, warheads: 10 %.

Quantity: 21.000 tons (brutto).

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

The way of surplus ammunition disposal

1. Open Burning Open Detonation technique

• 2. Sales through government agency
• 3. Donations

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Current destruction technique

Destruction of obsolete and surplus ammunition and explosives with EOD personnel (pyrotechnicians) at the designated location (OBOD).

• destruction capacity / day is around 4,5 t,
• disassembling capacity / year is around 1.000 t,
• destruction capacity / year is around 1.000 t.

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Ammunition disassembly

• separation cartridge and warhead, defuzing, depriming etc.

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

OBOD – Landmines & Warheads

• landmines surplus already destroyed -

(Otawa Convention)

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

OBOD – gun powder and propellant

• chemically unstable propellant -

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

OBOD – destruction site

• three locations for OBOD -

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

MANPADS / SA-7B destruction

• USA initiative for destroying surplus of MANPADS with financial

and technical support by Government of USA - US Department of State (PM/WRA),

• Implementing Arrangement (1 mil US $): MANPADS destruction

and improvement of storages physical security – during 2009.,

• Destruction surplus of SA-7B MANPADS - 9M32M (929 pcs) – by

OBOD technique in Croatia,

• Security improvement of army MANPADS storage facility in

accordance with NATO standard – with assistance of US DefenseThreat Reduction Agency (DTRA),

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

The Way Ahead 2009. – 2015.

• Ammunition Surveillance – Adoption and implementation of

STANAGs, APs, AASTP1-3, to upgrade safe maintenance of stockpile,

• Transition

to NATO and UN classification system

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ammunitions and explosives,

• Resolve problem of future ammo stockpile storage – build

new storages at the perspective locations,

• Continue to ammunition surplus disposal – sale, donation,

destruction (OBOD, industrial demil) by CAF and commercial sector capacity with international assistance,

• Replacement the old and obsolete ammunition with new

types of ammunition for new combat systems,

• Permanent personnel education for ammunition life cycle

management.

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RASR Workshop Zagreb, 2009

Thank you !

MoD – GS CAF