Unexploded Ordnance Overseas Statistics
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RAF ONLY STATS FROM MOUNT PLEASANT AIRFIELD (MPA), FALKLANDS ISLANDS Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2010 Detail Sep 25 Yard Range Flare and Smoke grenade 2 Nov MPA 1x PARA illum 1 2010 Totals 3 Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2011 Detail May Mt Tumbledown Small Arms .5 and 7.62 500 Approx May Marine Flare 4 May Banshee Target Drone 1 July RPV Target Smoke Orange 4 Sep Elephant Beach Farm 7.62mm in Ammo Tin 200 2011 Totals 700 8 1 Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2012 Detail Apr Mt Longdon 105 mm 1 May Port San Carlos 105 mm 1 Aug 2" Mortar 1 Aug Stanley Quarry 4x PARA illum Qty Small Arms 100 Approx Sep Wall Mt 2" Mortar 1 Sep JR Mess Non Ex 1 Nov Sapper Hill 7.62 Tracer 16 Nov Berthas Beach Non Ex 1 2012 Totals 116 1 2 2 Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2013 Detail Jun Fox Bay Non Ex 1 Jun 1564 Flt Small Arms Ammo 8 Jun Mt Kent Explosive fill 1 Jul Mare Harbour PARA illum and Bat sim 1 1 Jul Movements Hangar Mock up Inert Sidewinder 1 Aug Kotes Armoury 5.56 Blank 80 Aug Mt Kent SAA various 86 Oct MPA Smoke Float & Flame No2 Mk4 1 2013 Totals 174 2 4 Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2014 Detail Jan Middle Island 105mm HE Recoilless shell 1 Jan Ajax Bay 81 mm HE Mortar, 4.5" HE Naval Shel Fused 1 1 Jan Port Stanley Remains of 2x L2A2 Grenades 2 Jan Stanley Golf Course 105mm Fired M2 American Cart Case 1 Apr Mount Kent BL755 Bomblet 1 Apr MPA Concrete Picker 1 May Onion Range 1 x Blind 105mm HE 1 May Mopunt Harriet Expended Flare Tripwire Mk3/1 1 Jul Stanley 5.56mm Ball 14 Oct Stanley Police 9 mm Ball 1 Nov Mt Tumbledown primer tube for 105 mm projectile 1 Nov Stanley 1x 7.62 mm SLR magazine x 24 Rds,Various SAA 50 Dec Stanley Various fired cases of SAA and live SAA 52 Dec Port Howard 30 mm HEI/SAP – (DEFA) ammunition 2 2014 Totals 117 5 1 1 1 2 3 Date Location Item Confirmed as Small Arms Ammunition Projectile Aircraft Bomb Practice Bomb Pyrotechnic Mortar Fuze Hand Grenade Incendiary Other 2015 Detail Feb San Carlos Farm 17 x HE L109 A2 Grenades 17 2015 Totals 17 GRAND TOTALS 1107 6 1 0 14 3 0 19 0 10 Non Ex = Item that has never contained explosives .