Recent Find Solomons Western Province

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My nephew is deployed in the Solomons with the AFP here is a recent find the other day UXB's etc from WWII.
As he said to me it's gunna take 100 years to clear it all away from the Islands!

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[browningautorifle]

it's gunna take 100 years to clear it all away

That is if they got right at it to do the work. I doubt it's actually ever going to get completely cleared, like the WW1 battlefields.

[Peter Laidler]

I'd say that the Japanese submarine pens in Singapore ?Blakang Mati and Palau Brani and further Notrh in Penang are still awash with large ordnance. There were teams of NZ, Aust and RN divers trying to clear them into the 70's and still at it as I understand it

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Update from the nephew apparently they removed the whole lot to another location to detonate it ?
Guess they have a spot where any escapee ordnance can be regathered and given another dose of semtex.

[browningautorifle]

Guess they have a spot where any escapee ordnance can be regathered and given another dose of semtex

They use a pit so everything is down low and explosive drives it down. Here's an example from Iraq.

(37mm anti aircraft ammo, hard cartridge to find for collecting.)