In addition to an ordnance depot, Linz has a benzol ( oil ) plant which was bombed during the Oil Campaign on 16 October 1944.

Jaques contacted the Bethlehem Iron Company with a proposal to serve as an intermediary between it and the Whitworth Company, so that Bethlehem could erect a heavy-forging plant to produce ordnance.

The Washington Navy Yard is the former shipyard and ordnance plant of the United States Navy in Southeast Washington, D. C.

By World War II, the Yard was the largest naval ordnance plant in the world.

Other smaller industries include a nuclear power plant and a liquified natural gas terminal ( both in Lusby ), a Naval ordnance test ground ( at Indian Head ), electric power plants ( at Aquasco and Morgantown ) and an oil terminal ( at Piney Point ).

In addition to the shipbuilding plant, the yard also had a gun factory, ordnance and supply depots, a fuel storage facility, a seaplane base and a naval air station.

In July, 1973, three explosions at the GO ordnance plant injured 29 people and left three dead.

Waldron then served three successive tours of shore duty, all involving flying, at the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va .; the Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, D. C .; and finally in the 3rd Naval District, where he was appointed naval inspector of ordnance at the plant of Carl L. Norden, Inc., in New York — makers of the famed Norden bombsight.

The collection documents collective bargaining and labor relations with Local 19 of the United Rubber Workers of America, tire production, reconversion of the plant from ordnance to synthetic rubber production, and modernization after World War II.

The records document the formation and development of the union, the history of collective bargaining and the settlement of grievances at the Eau Claire plant, and labor relations from 1942 to 1943 when the plant was operated as an ordnance factory by U. S. Rubber on behalf of the government.

The site was said to have been the largest secret manufacturing plant in Australia which was used for the production of military weapons, plane components, tanks, HE Bombs and ordnance.

duPont de Nemours Engineering Company was decommissioning military ordnance and dismantling the former Shell Loading Plant and TNT plant structures.

With Herberet's blessing, he was convinced that Allstates' Wisconsin folly would be ideal for conversion to airplane sub-assembly, tanks, missiles or ordnance of some kind.

Stuart set out with 1, 200 troopers on the morning of June 12 and, having determined that the flank was indeed vulnerable, took his men on a complete circumnavigation of the Union army, returning after 150 miles on July 15 with 165 captured Union soldiers, 260 horses and mules, and various quartermaster and ordnance supplies.

Following World War II, much of the Naval Air Station there was demolished, with some of the materials piled up and burned on the atoll, dumped into the lagoon, or in the case of unexploded ordnance on some of the islets, left in place.

The gun was tested at Sandy Hook, but was abandoned because of its cost and an American military bias against high-explosive ordnance in favor of armor-piercing rounds.

Louis was also involved with early aircraft development and had attempted to develop a helicopter, but his noted successes relate to high-explosive ordnance ( especially fuses ).

The need for manoeuvre was emphasized by the American Civil War, and was used very effectively by the Prussian General Staff to combine the strategic use of railways with the new firepower of quick-firing ordnance and small arms to defeat France in 1871.

He was compiling information for the ordnance survey.

Once the repairing stopped, it became easier for waves to get through ; in 1953 a large storm, measured at 5. 12 metres above ordnance datum ( see North Sea flood of 1953 ) hit the North Norfolk coast and the shingle ridge was mostly destroyed.

By 1847, he was an ordnance officer, and at the Washington Navy Yard began to improve and systematize the procurement and supply system for weapons.

* Benjamin B. Hotchkiss ( 1826 – 1885 ), for whom The Hotchkiss School was named by his widow, was one of the leading American ordnance engineers of his day.

During World War II, the production and storage of ordnance shells was conducted by three arsenals nearby to Huntsville, Alabama.

The cannon was used by the townspeople to commemorate holidays, such as the 4th of July, until someone was hurt firing the ordnance.

Their Waffenampt code was WaA53, and ordnance code was " coc ".

The Admiralty initially declared that there would be no attempt at salvage, that the sunken hulks would remain where they were ; in the first few years after the war, there was abundant scrap metal as a result of the huge quantities of leftover tanks, artillery and ordnance.

The ZEUS-HLONS ( HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System ), commonly known as ZEUS, was developed for surface land mines and unexploded ordnance ( UXO ) neutralization by the U. S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division ( NAVEODTECHDIV ).

Beneath this was the fortified communications center of the island, as well as the location for the Army headquarters, barracks for enlisted men, a branch of the Philippine Trust Co. bank, the Cine Corregidor movie theater, officers ' quarters, underground ordnance shops, the traditional parade grounds, an Officers ' Club with a 9-hole Golf Course, tennis courts, and swimming pool, and the bulk of the batteries that constituted the strength of Corregidor.

His father was a retired major-general of the Marine Artillery, who was actively engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55 and after his retirement worked as an engineer in ordnance works near St. Petersburg.

On June 1, 1949, the Army Chief of Ordnance designated Redstone Arsenal as the Ordnance Rocket Center, its facility for ordnance rocket research and development.

:* October 1948: The Chief of Ordnance designates Redstone Arsenal as the center for ordnance research and development in the field of rockets.

Production of the Model 1891 began in 1892 at the ordnance factories of Tula Arsenal, Izhevsk Arsenal and at Sestroryetsk Arsenal.

In 1939 the massive Toyokawa Naval Arsenal was established, one of the largest producers of machine guns, aviation ordnance and ammunition in the Empire of Japan.

Much of its former ordnance production was moved to these new sites as the Royal Arsenal was considered vulnerable to aerial bombing from mainland Europe.

The Royal Arsenal site retained its links to ordnance production for almost another thirty years as a number of the Ministry of Defence Procurement Executive's, Quality Assurance Directorates had their headquarters offices located there.

In 1793, the National Arsenal contained brass ordnance, howitzers, traveling carriages, shot strapt, canisters filled, quilted grape, iron shot, shells, powder, musket ball, cylinders, caps, paper cartridges, fuzes filled, muskets, swords, various military stores, and implements.

In 1922, he left maritime duty to take up a paymaster position at Sasebo Naval Arsenal ; he later ( as lieutenant commander ) served as an ordnance accountant in both the Shipbuilding and Naval Air Commands.

The Arsenal is the only active U. S. Army foundry, and manufactures ordnance and equipment, including artillery, gun mounts, recoil mechanisms, small arms, aircraft weapons sub-systems, grenade launchers, weapons simulators, and a host of associated components.

The museum is located in some of the former buildings of the Royal Arsenal, which was Britain's principal ordnance manufacturing facility from the early 18th century until the mid-20th century.

During World War I, Benicia Arsenal gave ordnance support to all large Army installations in the Western States as well as supplying Ordnance material to American expeditionary forces in Siberia.

The Japanese Army Air Force's Mitsubishi Ki-46 " Dinah " twin engined fighter was used to test the Schräge Musik armament format in its Ki-46 III KAI version in June 1943, using a 37 mm Ho-203 cannon with 200 rounds of ammunition, the largest known calibre ordnance ever used for such an operational fitment.

In 1986, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim, a former secretary general of the United Nations, had lied about his service as an officer in the mounted corps of the Nazi Party " Sturmabteilung " ( SA ), and his time as German ordnance officer in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1942 to 1943.

After the initial attacks in August 1943 the Allies went to considerable effort to develop devices which jammed the 48. 2 MHz to 49. 9 MHz low-VHF band radio link between the Kehl transmitter aboard the launching aircraft and the Straßburg receiver embedded in the Fritz-X ordnance.