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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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Default FS -- 22,000 artillery shells 155mm

"Stormin Mormon" fired this volley
in :

Mighta been reinstalled in other shells. Or, who knows.....

Could have been dumped in a pile, and burned off.


A lot of those have TNT as the main bursting charge. TNT is readily re-
processed. It can be melted out with steam, and re-cast. There are a
number of outfits in the U.S. that will "de-mil" munitions.

I'd be more concerned with the fuze than the main charge. That's usually
a sensitive primary explosive, and not readily made inert ('cept by
'splodin' it).

LLoyd