Still, let's say you're a gun-battery crew receiving fresh ammunition. First thing is to look it over, right? And you're naturally not going to be too thrilled about grubby-looking or flawed ammo, right?

Because more than just the accuracy or inaccuracy factor, poorly-maintained gun ammo & batteries did in fact blow up across modern warfare, many... many times.

Hell's bells, I didn't even remember this one until I searched just now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And you’re naturally not going to be too thrilled about grubby-looking or flawed ammo, right?

Doesn't matter if you're thrilled or not. You use what you are given in the military. If that means you have to clean it then it sucks to be you.

the explosion had occurred because of an overram of the powder caused by either an accident due to human error or an equipment failure

How does this example have anything to do with dirty rounds being fired? They overrammed the powder. That can happen with perfectly clean powder.

And those rounds in the picture are just the round. The bags of powder are stored separately.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the binary life.

Gotcha.

Thanks for the discussion, in any case.