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The Picatinny Arsenal is an American military research and manufacturing facility located on of land in Jefferson and Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, encompassing Picatinny Lake and Lake Denmark.[1]

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  1. 70 relations: American Civil War, Ammunition, Artillery, Bazooka, Bomb disposal, Central Railroad of New Jersey, China Lake, Kern County, California, Confederate States of America, Crane, Indiana, Dahlgren, Virginia, Distinguished Service Cross (United States), Ednatol, Fallbrook, California, Firearm, Fuze, Green Pond, New Jersey, Gulf War, Gunpowder, Hawthorne Army Depot, Howitzer, Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland, Jefferson Township, New Jersey, Lake Denmark, Lenape, Louisville, Kentucky, M65 atomic cannon, Macadam, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, MIM-104 Patriot, Morris County, New Jersey, National Priorities List, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Naval Weapons Station Earle, New Jersey Route 15, New York City, New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, Order of Saint Maurice (United States), Otto Dowling, Picatinny rail, Port Hueneme, California, Radar, RDX, Research and development, Restoration Advisory Board, Rockaway Township, New Jersey, Scud missile, Shell (projectile), Smokeless powder, ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. 1880 establishments in New Jersey
  3. Armories in New Jersey
  4. Forts in New Jersey
  5. Research installations of the United States Army
  6. Superfund sites in New Jersey
  7. United States Army arsenals during World War II

American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Ammunition

Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Bazooka

The Bazooka is a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World War II.

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Bomb disposal

Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe.

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Central Railroad of New Jersey

The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central, Jersey Central Lines or New Jersey Central, was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s.

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China Lake, Kern County, California

China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Crane, Indiana

Crane is a town in Perry Township, Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Dahlgren, Virginia

Dahlgren is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in King George County, Virginia, United States.

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Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is the United States Army's second highest military decoration for soldiers who display extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force.

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Ednatol

Ednatol is a yellow high explosive, comprising about 55% ethylenedinitramine (aka Haleite or Explosive H) and 45% TNT by weight.

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Fallbrook, California

Fallbrook is a census-designated place in northern San Diego County, California.

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Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.

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Fuze

In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates its function.

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Green Pond, New Jersey

Green Pond is a private lakeside residential unincorporated community within Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hawthorne Army Depot

Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States.

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Howitzer

The howitzer is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.

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Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) is a United States Navy installation in Charles County, Maryland.

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Indian Head, Maryland

Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States.

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Jefferson Township, New Jersey

Jefferson Township is the northernmost township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Lake Denmark

Lake Denmark is a small lake in Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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M65 atomic cannon

The M65 atomic cannon, often called Atomic Annie, was an artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device.

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Macadam

Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly.

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Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence.

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MIM-104 Patriot

The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states.

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Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City.

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National Priorities List

The National Priorities List (NPL) is the priority list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial investigation and remedial action (cleanup) financed under the federal Superfund program.

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Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy.

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The United States Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, is located in King George County, Virginia, in close proximity to the largest fleet concentration area in the Navy.

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Naval Weapons Station Earle, originally known as the Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, is a United States Navy base in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle are Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey and Superfund sites in New Jersey.

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New Jersey Route 15

Route 15 is a state highway in New Jersey, spanning Morris and Sussex counties, which travels for from West MacFarland Street (US 46) in Dover to an intersection with US 206 and Sussex Road (CR 565) in Frankford Township.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, also sometimes referred to as New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, Susie-Q or the Susquehanna, is a Class II American freight railway operating over 400 miles (645 km) of track in three Northeastern states, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

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Order of Saint Maurice (United States)

Order of Saint Maurice was established in 1996 in the pattern of the Cavalry & Armor Association's Order of St. George Medallion and is awarded by the National Infantry Association and the certificate is signed by the Chief of Infantry of the United States Army.

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Otto Dowling

Otto Carl Dowling (February 28, 1881 – April 14, 1946) was a United States Navy Captain, and the governor of American Samoa from April 17, 1934, to January 15, 1936.

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Picatinny rail

The 1913 rail (MIL-STD-1913 rail), also known as the Picatinny rail (1913 Picatinny rail etc.) is an American rail integration system designed by Richard Swan that provides a mounting platform for firearm accessories.

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Port Hueneme, California

Port Hueneme (Chumash: Wene Me) is a small beach city in Ventura County, California, surrounded by the city of Oxnard and the Santa Barbara Channel.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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RDX

RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or Royal Demolition eXplosive) or hexogen, among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2N2O2)3.

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Research and development

Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.

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Restoration Advisory Board

A Restoration Advisory Board or RAB is a group, which meets on a regular basis to discuss environmental restoration at a US military installation currently or formerly used and owned by the US Department of Defense (DoD).

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Rockaway Township, New Jersey

Rockaway Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Scud missile

A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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Shell (projectile)

A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.

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Smokeless powder

Finnish smokeless powder Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder.

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Specification (technical standard)

A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.

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Sports equipment

Sports equipment, also called sporting goods, are the tools, materials, apparel, and gear, which varies in shapes, size, and usage in a particular sport.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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Superfund

Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger is the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army CCDC Armaments Center

The United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (CCDCAC), or Armaments Center, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, is the US Army's primary research and development arm for armaments and munitions. Picatinny Arsenal and United States Army CCDC Armaments Center are research installations of the United States Army.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Weapon

A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill.

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Weaver rail mount

A Weaver rail mount is a system to connect telescopic sights (often via a scope mount) and other accessories to firearms and certain crossbows.

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Wharton, New Jersey

Wharton is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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105 mm calibre

105 mm (4.1 in) is a common NATO-standard artillery and tank gun calibre.

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2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005.

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5.56×45mm NATO

The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, commonly pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal.

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See also

1880 establishments in New Jersey

Armories in New Jersey

Forts in New Jersey

Research installations of the United States Army

Superfund sites in New Jersey

United States Army arsenals during World War II

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picatinny_Arsenal

Also known as Armed Forces Explosives Safety Board, Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Depot, Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Storage Depot, Lake Denmark Powder Depot, Picatinny, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, Picatinny Powder Depot, Pickatinny Arsenal.

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