Supporting UK DfiD and the United States Department of State weapons destruction program in Albania

In total more than 110,000 weapons were destroyed over two different projects.

Contracted by the United States Department of State to undertake a weapons destruction program to reduce the number of weapons held by the Albanian Armed Forces (AFF) which were surplus to requirements or damaged. In total more than 110,000 weapons were destroyed over two different projects.

We undertook ammunition destruction of 900 tons of unsafe and surplus ammunition, with a further UK DfID project for the destruction of 500 tons of additional ammunition.

900,000 Kg

Of ammunition recycled

110,000

Weapons destroyed

3,000,000 Kg

Engineering mortor rounds

Creation of local manufacturing capabilities.

We supported Albanian ammunition depots to bring them in line with UN regulations. A comprehensive programme of work with one of the ammunition production factories employed 30 personnel on a project which was completed on time and within budget. The result was more than 3,000,000 kg of reverse engineered mortar ammunition.

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