Largest disposal of abandoned ordnance ended by PLA

At the beginning of the year 2012, the largest-ever disposal work of the abandoned ordnance of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), which lasted more than 300 days, came to an end.

The abandoned ordnance of the PLA Navy was as much as tens of thousands of tons in great numbers and varieties, including mines dug up during construction, depth charges and fuses and grains of guided missile engines left over by history, ammunition from air accidents, unexploded ammunition and guided missiles during military training, missile boosters and air-to-air guided missiles left over from scientific research experiments, said Guo Yunhai, director of the Ordnance Support Department under the Armaments Department of the PLA Navy.

Some ammunition fuses have been badly corroded, with some safety locks of them deformed or lost, and the TNT blocks of some equipment have large equivalent weight, high explosive sensitivity and great destructive power

It is learned that such advanced equipment as the water jet cutting system, the ammunition destruction furnace, the ammunition steam drying box, and the automatic disintegrating machine for small-bore ammunition was used in the destruction work, which greatly improved the on-the-spot destruction capacity of initiating explosive devices.

After the deformation, all the light arms are palletized for package, storage and transportation, and put into the furnaces to be smelted, which effectively improved the working performance and security coefficient.