The history of ammunition assembly and disassembly in Pusztavacs
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23713/HT.59.2.10Kulcsszavak:
assembly and disassembly of ammunition, Pusztavacs base, ammunition assembly plant, history of ammunition assemblyAbsztrakt
The author is pursuing his doctoral research on the topic of possible ways of handling surplus ammunition stocks unsuitable for military use. One of these handling methods is the disassembly of ammunition, which is currently being carried out at the Pusztavacs base of the Hungarian Defence Forces Material Supply Storebase, Ammunition Technical Subdepartment. The present study briefly reviews the history of this organizational element in order to fill in some gaps. The author guides the reader from the arduous beginnings to the present, touching on significant milestones. The article focuses specifically on the history of ammunition (dis)assembly activities, so the other tasks of the Pusztavacs base are not, or – in the case of the laboratory – only briefly mentioned.
Hivatkozások
The Unit History Book of the HDF Hazardous Material Supply Centre. Registration number: 1260/72 HDF Material Supply Storebase Base
Command (Pusztavacs).
History of the institute 1951-1983, Hungarian People’s Army 11th Ammunition Base, Pusztavacs. Original registration number: 0132/1983. Photocopy from the collection of the Military History Archives.
Colonel Attila Nagy: The necessity and possibility of restoring the ammunition repair, maintenance and deactivation capabilities of the
Hungarian Defence Forces. Thesis, Miklós Zrínyi University of National Defence, General Staff Training Course (VKT-21), Pusztavacs/Budapest, 2011.
