DEU Needs on Ammunition Storage in Missions Abroad

Abstract

Since being established in 1955, alliance and national defense has been the central mission of the Bundeswehr until the 1990s. Personnel and equipment, training and exercises and tactics and operational planning were geared to a conventional war on German territory. Back then all the logistics was prepared to supply major units with large quantities of consumables, including ammunition, for the conduct of delaying or high-intensity defense operations at the inner-German border. For this purpose, a dense network of fixed logistic facilities was established that were capable of providing, for example, large amounts of most different but planned packages of ammunition within a short period of time. This was an indispensable prerequisite for the Bundeswehr's, and hence NATO's defense capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532308

Entities

People

  • Andreas Heckersbruch
  • Stephan Hagen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Central Europe
  • Civil Engineering
  • Cold War
  • Construction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Explosives
  • Germany
  • Indirect Fire
  • Law
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Standards
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design