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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
LtCol Angel Turmanov
Demilitarization of surplus ammunitions
6th RASR Workshop,Bled, Slovenia 3-5 April 2013
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24 April 2013
Outline
1. Review of the surplus ammunition reduction
2. Current situation -
“Plan for future demilitarization of surplus ammunitions
2012 – 2015”
3. Conditions of stockpile, DTRA report PSSM – 2012
4. The way ahead
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
Review of the surplus ammunition reduction
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MoD has reduced excessive ammunitions from90 000 tons in 2004 year to 7075 tons in 2013 year
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
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Review of the surplus ammunition reduction
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• In 2012 were destroyed and recycled 336 tons of excessive and dangerous ammunitions
• Last year were sold more than 8 775 tons of excessive ammunitions
•Two ammunition depots were reduced
4 April 2013
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
Current situationExcessive ammunition 2013 – around 7075 tons
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Current situation
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
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Excessive ammunition 2013 – around 7075 tons
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Current situationCluster ammunitions - 6874 pcs., around 868 tons According to the Bulgarian government official report for UN 2012
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
Future surplus reduction
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MoD has prepared an “Action plan for future demilitarization of surplus ammunitions 2012 – 2015”
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
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DTRA Team visited 4 depots from 29 October – 02 November 2012
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Condition of stockpile
Recommendations:
- improve physical security- improve physical conditions of the depots - update SOPs with most recent national /international best practices- obtain capability to conduct chemical analysis on ammunitions
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
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DTRA General Impression
Incident near ”Petoluchkata”
05 Jun 2012; 3 PAX died and 15 injured; around 160 tons exploded due to distortion of the process of utilization;250 000 euro were spent for the cleaning area
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Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria
- keeping an existing policy of selling/destructionexcessive ammunitions - reduce ammunition depots – review is in progress - improve physical security and physical conditions on the depots- developing and improving staff qualification
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Bulgarian MoD – The way ahead
Ministry of Defense Republic of Bulgaria
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Ministry of Defense Republic of Bulgaria
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Thank you
for your attention
Lt Col Angel Turmanov, Bulgarian MoDa.turmanov@mod.bg
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